The Extraordinary State Commission - fully: „Soviet State Extraordinary Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices.“ (Russian: Чрезвычайная Государственная Комиссия - TschGK), was a commission formed by the Soviet authorities, officially aiming at "investigating and punishing for the Crimes of the German-Fascist Aggressors" and their allies. The commission was established on 2 November 1942, by a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The commission had the responsibility to investigate the Nazi war crimes and collect materials which would confirm crimes and losses caused by the invaders. According to its own data, 32,000 organization men took part in the work of ChGK and around 7,000,000 Soviet citizens had participated the collection of materials ad evidence. Look up commission in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Soviet redirects here. ... is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Supreme Soviet (Russian: , Verhovniy Sovet, literally the Supreme Council) comprised the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments. ...

The 27 reports of the ChGK were the lion's share of Soviet evidentiary material in Nuremberg process and the Japanese war criminals' process. For the 1947 Soviet film about the trials, see Nuremberg Trials (film). ... Japanese war crimes occurred during the period of Japanese imperialism. ...

Members of the Commission

• Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik (1888 - 1970)chairman
• Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (1896 - 1948)
• Metropolit Nikolai of Kiev and Galicia (1892 - 1961)
• Valentina Stepanovna Grisodubova (1910 - 1993)
• Yevgeni Viktorovich Tarle (1875 - 1955)
• Boris Yevgenyevich Vedenyev (1884 - 1946)
• Nikolai Nilovitsch Burdenko (1876 - 1946)
• Trofimi Denisovitch Lysenko (1898 - 1976)
• Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoi (1882 - 1945)
• Ilya Pavlovich Trainin (1886 - 1949)

Nikolay Mikhailovich Shvernik (Никола́й Миха́йлович Шве́рник) (1888 – 1970) was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (or President of the USSR) from March 19, 1946 until March 15, 1953. ... Andrei Zhdanov Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Жда́нов) (February 26 [O.S. February 14] 1896–August 31, 1948) was a Soviet politician. ... Tarle, Yevgeny Viktorovich (1874-1955) was a Soviet historian and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Nikolay Burdenko Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: ) (22 May [O.S. 3 June] 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian surgeon, the founder of the Russian neurosurgery. ... Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко) (September 29, 1898–November 20, 1976) was a Soviet politician who made pretense of being a biologist. ... Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi. ...

Controversial communiquées

Some of the reports prepared by the commission are now considered falsifications. Particularly:

The first report of the commission was published on August 24, 1944 with the title „Finland demasked“. This report claimed that Finland had put the whole 'Soviet' population of the occupied territories into Concentration camps, where 40% had dies, according to commission's the data is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ...

On 24 January 1944, communiquée about Katyn massacre was published: "The Truth about Katyn". This lengthy document affirmed with "irrefutable clarity", that the mass shootings of the Polish prisoners had been done buy the Germans. (See: Katyn_massacre#Actions taken by the Soviet Union) The Soviet pathologists were of course said to have found numerous 'proofs', that the crime was committed by the Germans: pathologists who examined the bodies in 1943 - so the report goes - concluded that they could not have been dead longer than two years. Furthermore, documents were found on some of the bodies which had obviously been missed by the Germans when they doctored the evidence. These included a letter dated September 1940, a postcard dated 12 November 1940, a pawn ticket receipted 14 March 1941 and another receipted 25 March 1941. Receipts dated 6 April 1941, 5 May 1941, 15 May 1941 and an unmailed postcard in Polish dated 20 June 1941. Although all these dates pre-date Soviet withdrawal, they all postdate the time of the alleged murder of the prisoners by the Soviet authorities in the spring of 1940 etc.^[1] is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Katyn and KatyÅ„ redirect here. ... Katyn and KatyÅ„ redirect here. ...

References

Literature

• Alexander E. Epifanow: Die Außerordentliche Staatliche Kommission. Stöcker, Wien 1997.
• Stefan Karner: Zum Umgang mit der historischen Wahrheit in der Sowjetunion. Die "Außerordentliche Staatliche Kommission" 1942 bis 1951. In: W. Wadl (Hg.): Kärntner Landesgeschichte und Archivwissenschaft. Festschrift für Alfred Ogris. Klagenfurt 2001, Seite 508-523.
• Marina Sorokina, People and Procedures. Toward a History of the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in the USSR. In: Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 6, 4 (Fall 2005), 797 - 831.
• Joachim Hoffmann, Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945. Ch.8 Sowjetischen Untaten werden den Deutschen zugeschrieben.