Vasiliev

Resolution on the release of Kraus K.G. from custody for transfer to the disposal of the Kozhevnikovsky RO NKVD.

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Stamp:

USSR. NKVD. UNKVD for the Novosibirsk region.

Kozhevnikovsky district department.

January 31(?) 1944

No. 067(?)

s. Kozhevnikovo

Head of Tomsk Prison No. 3, Captain of State Security, Comrade VASILIEV. Tomsk, Novosibirsk Region.

I am sending you a resolution on the release from custody of the pre-trial detention facility held in prison No. 3 KRAUS, entrusted to you, Karl Gotlipovich.

I ask that KRAUS K. G. be released from custody, having taken from him a written undertaking to appear at the disposal of the Kozhevnikovsky RO NKVD.

Deputy Chief of the Kozhevnikovsky RO NKVD Junior Technician Lieutenant signature (KROTOV)

Inscription in the upper left corner: "in/x 57 31/I-44."

Persons mentioned:

• Vasiliev is a captain of state security, head of Tomsk Prison No. 3.
• Kraus Karl Gotlipovich - a prisoner of pretrial detention.
• Krotov is a junior technician lieutenant, deputy head of the Kozhevnikovsky RO NKVD.

Arrest order for Kraus K.G. from February 1944 on a new charge. While in prison No. 3, he is accused of counterrevolutionary pro-fascist agitation among cellmates (Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR), praising Hitler and the German army.

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I APPROVE:

DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE NKVD DEPARTMENT OF THE NSO STATE SECURITY MAJOR /KORNILEV/

I AUTHORIZE ARREST:

PROSECUTOR OF NOVOSIBIRSK REGION STATE COUNSELLOR OF JUSTICE III CLASS [signature]

DECREE / For arrest /

City. Tomsk Novosibirsk region "__" February 1944

I, Deputy Head of Prison No. 3 of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region, Junior Lieutenant of State Security BASHLYKOV, having reviewed the material on criminal activity:

KRAUSS Karl Gottliebovich, born in 1905, native of the village of Orlovskoye, Markshtatsky District, Volga German ASSR, German by nationality, citizen of the USSR, no permanent residence, illiterate, from the middle peasants, without a permanent place of residence or work, was exiled to the Kozhevnikovsky District of the Novosibirsk Region, from where he fled. For which he was arrested on 23.V.43 by the Tugansky ROM NKVD and charged under Art. 82, Part II of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, and is currently being held in Prison No. 3 in Tomsk.

FOUND:

That KRAUSS, while under arrest in prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO during November–December 1943, systematically carried out counter-revolutionary [pro-fascist] agitation among his cellmates, aimed at undermining the power of the Soviet state, for example:

In mid-November 1943, KRAUSS denigrated the Soviet government and the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and made various insults against the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Here he also praised the cannibal Hitler and his “order.”

In the last days of November 1943, KRAUSS slandered the Red Army and, on the contrary, praised the German army and its equipment, proving to his cellmates the inevitable defeat of the USSR in the modern war with Nazi Germany.

In the first days of December 1943, KRAUSS made slanderous statements about the Soviet government and the Red Army. At the same time, he praised the German army and the bandit Hitler.

In the last days of December 1943, KRAUSS expressed similar counter-intelligence fabrications, and simultaneously slandered the Soviet press.

The pro-fascist activities of KRAUSS are confirmed by the testimony of witnesses VYKHREST P.E., FEDOSEYEV A.K., RYABKOV T.P. and MAKARENKO A.I.

Based on the above

RESOLVED:

KRAUSS Karl Gottliebovich is to be arrested and searched.

Deputy Head of Prison No. 3 NKVD NSO Junior Lieutenant of State Security /Bashlykov/

AGREE: Head of Prison No. 3 NKVD NSO Captain of State Security /VASILIEV/

Head of the Prison Department of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region Major of State Security /BOZHOK/

Persons mentioned:

• Kraus Karl Gottliebovich - accused.
• Korniliev is a major of state security, deputy head of the NKVD NSO.
• Bashlykov is a junior lieutenant of state security, deputy head of prison No. 3.
• Vykhrest P.E., Fedoseeva A.K., Ryabkova T.P., Makarenko A.I. - witnesses.
• Vasiliev is a captain of state security, head of the prison.
• Bozhok is a major in state security, head of the prison department.

Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure from February 1944, duplicating the arrest resolution (Doc. 10). The basis is suspicion of crimes under Art. 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and the possibility of hiding from the investigation.

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The text largely repeats the content of Sheet 14 and Sheet 15, including the names of Korniliev, Bashlykov, Vasiliev and Bozhok.

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FOUND:

That KRAUSS Karl Gottliebovich is suspected of crimes under Article 58-10, Part II of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and taking into account that KRAUSS, being in custody in prison on general grounds, may be transferred from prison and thereby hide from the investigation and trial...

RESOLVED:

The measure to prevent the methods of evading investigation and trial in relation to KRAUSS Karl Gottliebovich is to be held in custody in prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO...

Persons mentioned:

• Kraus Karl Gottliebovich - accused.
• Korniliev is a major of state security, deputy head of the NKVD NSO.
• Bashlykov is a junior lieutenant of state security, deputy head of prison No. 3.
• Vasiliev is a captain of state security, head of prison No. 3.
• Bozhok is a major in state security, head of the prison department.

Medical examination report of the body of prisoner Karl Gottliebovich Kraus. The cause of death has been established.

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I approve the Head of Prison No. 3 of the NKVD Directorate for the Novosibirsk Region

Captain of State Security Comrade Vasiliev signature

ACT of medical examination of the corpse of a prisoner

Based on order No. 0457 and the order of the head of prison No. 3 of the NKVD Directorate for the Novosibirsk Region, state security captain comrade Vasiliev, I, as a doctor,

Yakimova, in the presence of DPNT Z comrade Katuntsev, examined the body of prisoner Kraus Karl Gatlipovich, born in 1905.

The corpse is male, of normal build. Tall, with severe emaciation. The scalp and face are pale, the mucous membrane of the lips is pale. The eyes and mouth are closed. The tongue is behind the teeth, the neck is intact. The chest is cylindrical. The ribs are sharply drawn inward. The intercostal spaces are also. The abdomen is sharply drawn in. The openings of the nose, ears and anus are without extraneous damage. The coverings of the upper and lower extremities are pale. The muscles of the entire corpse are atrophied. No other changes were found during external examination.

Based on the above and case history No. 165/23 , the death of prisoner Karl Gatlipovich Kraus was natural and occurred from Pellagra and exhaustion.

Acting Yakimova

DPNT Z Katuntsev

Persons mentioned:

• Vasiliev is a captain of state security, head of the prison.
• Yakimova is a doctor.
• Katuntsev - DPNT Z (on-duty assistant to the prison warden).
• Kraus Karl Gottliebovich - deceased prisoner.