Yuri Uspensky, a young officer with the Soviet 5th Artillery Corps, added Majdanek to the horrors he had seen in the villages he had liberated in the Smolensk region; as his unit fought its way towards the borders of East Prussia he would not forget ‘the German cold-bloodedness in Majdanek’, which he found ‘a hundred times worse’ than the worst actions committed by his own side – which indeed appalled him too.
