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Hryhoriy Mykytovych Vasiura | |
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Native name | Ukrainian: Григорій Микитович Васюра |
Born | Chyhyryn, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) | 15 February 1915
Died | 2 October 1987 Pishchalauski Castle, Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union | (aged 72)
Allegiance | USSR (1936–1941) Nazi Germany (1941–1945) |
Service/ | Signal corps, artillery (1936–1941) Auxiliary police, grenadiers (1941–1945) |
Years of service | 1936–1945 |
Rank | Senior lieutenant (1936–1941) Untersturmführer (1941–1945) |
Unit | 67th Rifle Division (1936–1941) Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS |
Commands | Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 |
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Awards | Deprived of all awards |
Spouse(s) | Maria Vasiura |
Children | 4 |
Other work | State farm economic director |
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Hryhoriy Mykytovych Vasiura (Ukrainian: Григорій Микитович Васюра, Russian: Григорий Никитич Васюра; 15 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a Soviet senior lieutenant in the Red Army who was captured during the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941 and subsequently volunteered for service in the Schutzmannschaft (the Nazi collaborationist auxiliary police) and the Waffen-SS. Vasiura's wartime activities were not fully revealed until the mid-1980s, when he was convicted as a war criminal by a Soviet military court and executed in 1987 for his role in the Khatyn massacre.[1]