A gift to the Nazi invaders from Colonel Ilya Strinov's group.
On November 14, 1941, at 4:20 a.m. in Hitler-occupied Kharkov, a radio-controlled mine exploded in a house on Dzerzhinsky Street on a command sent from the Voronezh broadcasting station.
As a result of the explosion, the mansion was destroyed. Under its ruins died the commander of the 68th Infantry Division and the head of the Kharkov garrison, Major General Georg von Braun, two of his staff officers, four non-commissioned officers and six German soldiers.
It is worth noting that the very cautious 54-year-old general did not immediately occupy the mansion at 17 Dzerzhinsky Street. He carefully examined the chosen task. During the inspection, saboteurs discovered a huge mine in the basement of the house. But the Hitlerites did not realize that under this mine there was another one, controlled by radio. This gift to the invaders was left by Colonel Ilya Starinov's group.
Source: Historian magazine.
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