After the war , the Soviet authorities collected a representative set of men of various ranks from general to private who had fought at Velikiye Luki from prisoner of war camps and brought them to the city . A military tribunal held a public trial and convicted them for war crimes related to anti-partisan warfare . Nine were sentenced to death and publicly hanged in the main square of Velikiye Luki in January 1946
war crimes
War crimes of the Wehrmacht
Battle for Velikiye Luki