It's a Russian video ("Without term of limitations") dedicated to victims of Josef Stalin. It's about Jacob Schochenmaier (1896-1937) shot dead in Soviet Georgia (Caucasus where he had worked as a book keeper) for being active Christian of German nationality.
Jacob is grandfather of Walter Wahler (1959), son of Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1862-????), husband of Margaritha Grauer (1899-1952) and brother of Wilhelm Schochenmaier (1897-????) who is my great great grandfather.
"The genocide committed against the ethnic Germans of Russia comprised a series of mass murders and genocidal actions that unfolded in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. In all, from 1915 to 1945, probably over one million Russian Germans perished from unnatural causes under three successive Russian governments—those of Tsar Nicholas II, Lenin, and Stalin—chiefly by means of mass executions, forced labor, deliberate starvation, and brutal deportations."
From 1930-1937, around 300,000 to 350,000 Russian Germans lost their lives as a result of the deliberate starvation, deportation, or massacres of resisters to "collectivization."The German-Russian Genocide: Remembrance in the 21st Centuryby Samuel D. Sinner
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