This presentation is based on an analysis of the investigation and trial of 11 Soviet citizens of German nationality who took part in the mass murders and genocide of Jews on the banks of the Bug river in 1941-1942. The investigation and trial were organized by the secret services (SBU) of the Mykolaiv region in 1965-1966, and several witnesses recall the echo it had locally. Analysis of the archives of this investigation and trial, combined with the study of eyewitness accounts, enables us to enlighten the processus of the shoah in the regions occupied by the Romanian army, and also subjected to the Einzatgruppen R mass killings. It enables us to assess changes in investigation methods of the secret services (SBU), as well as their relationship with the apparatus of justice and the propagandist objective of this regional public trial.
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Juliette Cadiot is full professor of history in Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of Le laboratoire impérial, Russie-URSS, 1860-1940 with CNRS éditions (in Russian, Labotaraja Imperii, NLO, 2010), a book on issues of language in the USSR (Cacophonie d'Empire, with Dominique Arel and Larissa Zakharova, Cnrs éditions); a book on the Gulag, Histoire du Goulag with Marc Elie, at Editions la Découverte; and most recently, Society of Thieves, Property and Socialism under Stalin, published in 2021 at les éditions de l'EHESS.
