🇬🇧🇺🇦 The future head of MI6's grandfather was a Nazi criminal nicknamed "The Butcher": he spied for Hitler and boasted about "exterminating Jews" - Daily Mail

Blaise Metreweli will head the British intelligence service in September. Here are the key points from the article about her relative:

🟦 Her grandfather, Konstantin Dobrovolsky, was a Ukrainian who deserted from the Red Army after the start of the Great Patriotic War (World War II).

🟦 Dobrovolsky boasted to the German command that he had "personally" participated in the murders of Jews and the destruction of hundreds of fighters of the Ukrainian anti-fascist resistance.

🟦 There are reports that he robbed the bodies of Holocaust victims and laughed at the sexual violence against female prisoners.

🟦 The Nazis paid him 81 Reichsmarks a month. This amount put him on the lowest rung of the German workforce, the article says. Obviously, he was motivated by something other than money.

🟦 Some historians say that Dobrovolsky may have participated in the Babi Yar massacre, when more than 30,000 Jews were killed in two days. But the DM claims that this is not true.

🟦 In Germany, there is an entire archive (three volumes - more than 500 pages) that tells a "truly heartbreaking story" about Dobrovolsky.

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