surgeon of the red army, colonel general of the medical service, academician nikolai burdenko, photographicvidence in criminal cases. arriving here on july 14, and certain places were still smoking, that is, barns, the bodies of prisoners, they were burning out, that is, they literally. places of forced detention, concentration camps, prisoner of war camps and death camps. it included all forms, it was the largest nazi camp in the occupied territory of the soviet union. historians often call this belarusian camp auschwitz, because really everything in this camp was killed. these were spontaneous murders, these were planned murders of both prisoners of war and civilians, participants in the underground struggle, citizens of different nationalities; of course, the jews were the first to come under attack from the nazis. the camp territory occupied 200-250 hectares. the first prisoners were soviet prisoners of war. it was their hands that actually created the infrastructure of the labor camp. they developed the area they themselves spent the night in dugouts, which looked more like holes. the