Chapell, George (Chapodze, Yuri), 1913-

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Envelope 4/106 ; microfilm reel 055 ; Frames 1225 - 1243

9 newspaper clippings and 1 page of press survey

George Chapell (Yuri Chapodze) was a Georgian origin Red army soldier who defected from the Red Army to the Germans in 1942. According to Soviet claims he joined the notorious Caucasian Company, a police unit that helped the Germans in killing civilians. The Soviets said Chappell had served as a squad commander and had been involved personally in "mass annihilation". He was captured by the Allies and was settled by the British in the UK in 1947, where he anglicised his name and became a British citizen in 1956. In 1970 the Soviets demanded his extradition in order to put him on trial, but the British refused to do so or even to investigate those claims by themselves, as they did in many similar cases, allegedly on base of the hostility towards the eastern bloc governments -- (The mail Archive [CTRL] Fwd, 07 Feb 2001)