Konstantin Dobrowolski
 Konstantin Dobrowolski    ( Nazi, war criminal) | |
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| Born | Konstantin Augustinowitsch Dobrowolski 9 May 1906 |
| Relatives |  Blaise Metreweli |
"Jew-murdering, torture-enabling, rape participant of Jews during the Holocaust in Ukraine" (George Galloway on 30 June 2025) | |
Konstantin Dobrowolski or Agent 30 was a Red Army soldier who defected to and collaborated with the invading Nazi forces during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
George Galloway described him as a "Jew-murdering, torture-enabling, rape participant of Jews during the Holocaust in Ukraine" (MOATS video on 30 June 2025).[1]
Early life
Dobrowolski was born in Savynky, Chernigov Governorate, Russia in 1906, into a Russian noble family of Polish descent, tracing its lineage to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. His father was a major landlord and owned more than 1,350 acres (550 ha) of land. He had claimed in his autobiography in 1942 that following the October Revolution in 1917, the entire family was destroyed by the Bolsheviks, and his father's estate was seized.
Opposing Soviet rule and defection
For years, Dobrowolski lived on the run, obtaining a fake ID and travelling to Moscow. 1926 he was caught and served ten years in a prison camp for anti-Soviet agitation, antisemitism and forging his ancestry. He returned from prison in 1937 and immediately volunteered for the front when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941 and Operation Barbarossa). He joined the Red Army at the start of The Great Patriotic War, and "at the first opportunity" he defected in August 1941 and went on to be a Nazi collaborator known as "The Butcher" and "fascist cannibal". Dobrowolski rose to become a local intelligence chief for the Nazis in Chernigov. He first collaborated with the Hiwi, before he officially joined the Wehrmacht's secret military police Geheime Feldpolizei (GFP) in July 1942. He claimed to have helped “exterminate the Jews,” killed hundreds of Ukrainian partisans, looted Holocaust victims, and laughed while watching female prisoners being sexually assaulted –all as per historic archives. The Soviets offered a 50,000-ruble bounty—£200,000 today—on Dobrowolski, calling him “the worst enemy of the Ukrainian people.”
Legacy
His last known whereabouts date to 1943. A top-secret Soviet KGB handbook on WWII Nazi collaborators, published in 1969, states that he had escaped with the retreating Axis troops to Germany in September 1943, and listed him as still at large.
He is the paternal grandfather of British intelligence agent Blaise Metreweli. Documents held in an archive in Freiburg detail Dobrowolski’s life and were unearthed by the British newspaper Daily Mail after Metreweli’s appointment to MI6 chief in June 2025. According to the same newspaper the archive is over 500 pages long.
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:In a plot twist worthy of John le Carré we reveal the grandfather of the brilliant new head of MI6 was a Nazi spy chief | Article | 28 June 2025 | Andy Jehring Vazha Tavberidze | Konstantin Dobrowolski boasted to German commanders of ‘personally’ taking part ‘in the extermination of the Jews’. In 1943, Dobrowolski got safe passage from the Nazis for his wife Barbara and their two-month-old son, also named Constantine, to flee west towards Germany. While Dobrowolski’s fate is unknown, his wife and their son made it to Britain, where she married a new partner, Georgian-born David Metreweli, in Yorkshire in 1947. |
References
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