Georgy Sviridov. Ring behind barbed wire (№ 440151)

Just before the war, when the teacher of the higher officer artillery school, Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Smirnov, gave his knowledge and experience to future commanders, future heroes of the defense of Moscow, heroes of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Sevastopol, at the same time Standartenführer Karl Koch, commandant of Europe's largest political concentration camp Buchenwald , taught his subordinates to torture, kill, organize mass executions, checked the operation of the crematorium ovens, and prepared to implement Hitler's plan to "Depopulate Europe".