User:Oxfordshire 1972/Archive

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Prehaps eventuly an indipendent time line, or set of articles in a short article about Mendoza Alfonse Sánchez life as a journalist.Oxfordshire 1972 19:35, October 22, 2011 (UTC)

The March 2, 1958 and March 3, 1962 Caracas TV European war-crimes reports.
The nationally renowned Venezuelan ATL Caracas Times, now Caracas TV journalist Mendoza Alfonse Sánchez (he’s somewhat between the OTL explorer Bear Grylls and OTL journalist Sir Richard Dimmbelby) was sent on the most daring mission daring mission of his entire 32 years of reporting in mid-1957, to investigate suspected war crimes allegations in those countries. (It was one of those 3 month undercover jobs like OTL journalists do in today’s N. Korea, Zimbabwe and Saddam’s Iraq.)

Mendoza’s report for Caracas TV can be found here as the "Caracas TV war crimes report, March 2, 1958". It was repeated that December on Venezuelan TV and will be revised and issued globally, via the UN, on March 3, 1962.

His 1958 media report.
His findings were as follows-

Background information


The

Randers-


The pill box type bunker was destroyed by the Soviet during a brief 1953 costal raid. While it can be confirmed that 4 guards manning the bunker did get killed defending it, the various local accounts of 5th, surrendering Danish guard being shot without good cause afterwards cannot be confirmed or denied.

This case seemed to be either a cruel hoax or a long believed peace of wartime propaganda.

A nearby farm wall did have some 20 to 30 high velocity bullet holes in it. The bullets were too deformed to identify, but a Venezuelan forensics lab did determine the alloys used were probably those common to Soviet gunsmiths at the time. The locals claimed Soviet soldiers had used it for the execution of Danish prisoners in 1954 and 1955. An Estonian coin, a Soviet warrant card and a long broken Danish watch were found just beneath the grass. A local who had witnessed the alleged shootings said that about 30 to 40 individuals had been shot their over the period of 1 week by a team of about 7 to 10 Soviet soldiers in an act of cold blooded murder. He said he would be willing to testify in court over the incident and that he could recognise the sergeant who was in charge of that firing squad.

It is most likely that the incident did take place, but the number of victims may have been accidently exsadrated over the years.

Pønder-
The farm was reportedly was destroyed by the Nazis during a brief 1939 border raid. The local vague accounts of a local farmer being shot with good cause cannot be confirmed or denied. There was no physical evidence of any foul play such as bones or bullets in any other nearby places ether.

This case seemed to be either a cruel hoax or a long believed peace of wartime propaganda.

Ploty
The farm was reportedly destroyed in the Soviet conquest of Poland during the mid-1940's. There has been a long standing claimed by variose exiles and refugees, that the Jewish family were executed for refusing to give their cattle to the Soviet’s supply corps for food. It can only be confirmed that the farm is a ruin and that the family go 6 and there animals don’t live in it any more. A small amout of Soviet, German and Polsh cas was found in the house.

Their fate is unknown and it cannot even be ascertained whether they left, died or were gulaged, since all evidence of their existence ends here.

Rzeszow
{C}The forest hollow was officially marked by the Ruthenian Government since 1940 as a site of a 1938 Polish massacre of Slovak peasants. All major evidence has now been removed, but some Slovak coinage, a Polish type bullet, and unidentified bone fragments still remained. A jaw bone was taken back and forensically measured. The size and structure were determined to be typical of those from the Slavic races (Polish, Slovak, Soviet, Ruthenian...).

Freshly dug graves do exist in the local mountains, but the only redly available evidence of who was in it comes from the odd Polish, German and Slovak coinage dropped nearby. According to an account given by 2 children who had reportedly witness the event that day, a small squad of Austrian soldiers had shot a capture Soviet officer and 3 local Polish collaborators that day for no obvious reason at the time.

Whilst it is obvious something happen at these places, we will never know the actually events of those fateful days.

Parnu-


Local residents expressed some concern over the location of demolished Baltic Secret Communicate Agency (B.S.C.A.) section station. All evidence that it was used to torture Soviet citizens was lost for ever when the S.U.M.A. forces blew most of it up in 1952. The was only the remnants of the demolition crews work left along with a small amount of Estonian coinage and a Soviet army cap-badge. The reports of a secret basement or dungeon were problem false since there were not any singes of covered up or exposed access points on the floor of the now demolished mess-hall and gymnasium. The only intact building was a derelict guard hut that reviled no clues as to its former usage.

A nearby section of hilly marshland contained a higher than expected amount of human bones, Latvian coinage and a long neglected Soviet pistol. Any graves or major evidence had long sunk and been grown over at the site a local farmer claimed was the place were several Soviet officers were done away with. It was estimated that 7-8 shin bones were buried in a shallow pit near the local village dump. Their identity could not be confirmed.

All that that can be ascertained is that something violent happened, but we will probably never know exactly what happened at those moments in time.

Eksjo
The variouse local accounts100 Swedish citizens were shot in the local foothills by the Soviets in arbitery act of revenge seeking during 1956, could not be confirmed as true or false. Some of the few witnesses to the event als claimed a capured Ruthenian soldier was shot, whist others did not mention this happening. Both Soviet and Finnish type bullets were found in the soil, along with a single Latvian coin. there was no hard eveidence of a Ruthenian presence either.

No conclusion can be drawn other than there had been a lot of Finnish and Soviet gunfire in the location surveyed.

Eijko


A Swedish newspaper reporter did have list of several sites across south east Sweden and a photo pertaining to a nearby war grave for a Latvian army captain and 2 of his fellow troopers. The claims largely orientated around a small patch of marshland, in which it was claimed by the journalist that a captured Communist era Latvian army captain and his 2 comrades were liquidated by a team of local heavies after they had escaped from a SUMA/NUMA prison camp in 1944. whilst the covertly taken photo appeared genuine enough, no formal evidence remained other than the long lost remnants of a Communist era Baltic states (Latvia was one of them along with Lithuania and Estonia) army belt, some Baltic State SSR coinage and a Swedish army bullet of the time. All other remainig artifacts had now probably sunk it's self deep in to the Eijko marsh over the years.

No offical conclusion can be drawn other than there almost certenly had been exicution by fireing squad at the time, due to the lack of evidence left over from the insodent.

Wolgast-
{C}The former fort come prison camp in Wolgast, Germany. It is now deserted and little evidence remains of its former usage, with most of the remaining debris, being of the usual penal nature, save for a few German and Slovak coinage. There were numerous vague local reports about its former use by the Nazi Germans for torturing Hungarian dissidents in the early 1940’s. Most witness and survivor accounts concentrate on the prison’s operations in regard to West Hungarian dissidents and East Hungarian prisoners of war after the minor border clashes of 1940 and 1941. Various reports hold that between 150 to 200 were housed in the prison and Hungarian 4 escapees were shot in the court yard on October 1st or 2nd 1941, after they had been on the run for about a week. The camps confirmed opening date as a civil prison was as in 1935. When it became a political prison is reckoned to be either 1938 or 1939 and most local accounts say it closed in the summer of 1948. The site was looted by both Germans and occupying Soviets forces for scrap metal in the early 1950's.

Whilst local rumours abound along with numerous witness and survivor accounts, nothing could be officially verified due to the lack of material evidence after the looters and Soviets had finish wrecking the place.

Wilhelmshaven


A small and long abandoned German anti-Czech concentration camp from the late 1930’s was found here. The partly demolished and now derelict site contained some old German and Czech lathes and associated machinery. A former guard, who became a Soviet collaborator in the late 1940’s sad that it had housed Czech slave labours between about 1938 and 1942. There was Czech graffiti left on the walls by the inmates. A German army belt buckle was also found there.

Whilst it is obvious something had taken place, nothing could be officially verified due to the lack of material evidence after the place was emptied by its original owners and then looted by the local populous.

Prague


A mysterious Nazi bunker was found in a forest outside Prague by a couple of V.O.I.A. spies who thought they could see a high-tech lab trough the key hole of the hastily welded up door in 1950.

A Free Bohemian investigatory team arrived in 1954 after it had 'spontaneously' caught fire on night, but found that it had been broken via an air duct, emptied of portable equipment and arson by an unknown aslant or assailants.

It was a partly flooded and burnt out shell by 1958. The place had an unsual smell to it. There was a mixture of staile water, engine oil, mildue and burnt sulpher. yet there was no sing of burning or sulpher in the serounding woodland. The remaining fixtures were mostly to do with highly-advanced missile construction and cutting edge electro-magnetic equipment. A long lost Hindustani air force I.D. card and Polish army helmet were among the other Czech and German debris that filled the place.

The content appeared to be something varies technologically valuable, but It’s actual identity will never be known. It was problaly futile to investigate any further so the plan to probe it's secrets was called off.

His 1958 conclusion
Whilst some insolents like the surrendering Danish guard in the Randers bunker being shot without good cause proved to be either a cruel hoax or a long believed peace of wartime propaganda, others cases like the prisoner shootings in Randers and the Latvians that were edgily executed at a marsh in Eijko could possibly be perused due to witness stamens and limited evidence. Most will remain unproven like those former B.S.C.A. facility in Parnu and in the mountains near Eksjo. Other intriguing cases were reported both outside the Finnish city of Oulu, and the Swedish town of Uppsala which needed further investigating at a later date.

Oulu-
The case 12 km from Oulu would prove to be a particlely testing assignment due to the harsh winter weather and the high radiation levels caused by the use of a soviet 25kt nuclear weapon in 1947 and 1954. There had been disturbing reports amongst the refuge community about a incident in several near by farm steads and minor villages to the west of Oulu.

It is a well-known fact that about people 40,000 died the atomic attacks and that the experts at the IAEA recon the ruins can’t be entered in to until at least 1965 due to the lingering radiation, what happened to the farm was far from the ravages of atomic war. The farmstead had been toughly trashed and the furniture was large missing and assumedly stolen. A mouldering picture of Joseph Stalin was hung over the fireplace and in the fire place was the burnt remain of a stone figurine of Feld Marshal Manheim. Grafettied on the back of the kicked in door was the Cyrillic words “Go choke in an Black Eagles’ beaky!”. This was the calling card of the mysterious ‘Black Eagles’ paramilitary group, which had been accused by some locals of participating in prisoner killings at Randers, Denmark. Later the shot skeletons of a dog and too sheep were located in a nearby field along with some human teeth, a Polish SSR coin and several deformed bullets. A Venezuelan forensics lab examined the precise metallurgy of the bullets and confirmed they were of the same type of alloy the Soviets were using in the early 1950’s. A Venezuelan odentolagist also concluded the teeth were problem those of a middle-aged Finnic (Finns, Laps, Samoyeds, etc.) or Nordic person (Danes, Swedes, etc.). Both the tests were later verified by another facility in Panamá.

This case was very disturbing and could not be abandoned so easily. It was asumed that although the evidence was inconclusive of exactly who had actually don what, the elusive Black Eagles appeared to deserve a further examination some time in to the future.

Uppsala
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The other intriguing case was of an executed Latvian SSR army major that was shot dead in Uppsala, Sweden in 1944. The ditch did contain the over grown and partly hastily buried remains of the deceased major. He was reportedly shot by a SUMA/NUMA death squad after atempting to ecape from a near by millatery prison. He should have been exicuted with a SUMA or NUMA fierarm, but was in fact shot with a Polish SSR pistol bullet. A 1942 issue Latvian SSR Baltic Gallantry Cross, a Latvian SSR issue belt buckle and a Lithuanian SSR coin were also present at the site. He may have been shot by either a Polish SSR defector or a person using a captured Polish SSR pistol.

(A tad more to be added)

His 1962 conclusion
(To be competed)

A posible Danish image of the ‘Black Eagles’ paramilitary group


(To be competed)

Also see-
[Axis vs Allies Revised (Map Game)], Axis vs Allies Revised 1933.6-1948.6 (Map Game) and United Nations (Axis vs Allies Revised).