at a meeting in baranovichi on august 14, ss gruppenführer erich von denbach, who was tasked by himmlerwith developing a well -thought-out military plan for the operation, had already reported to the reich führer ss on the results: 13,788 marauders were destroyed, under they implied peacefully. the second stage of the pripyat swamp operation will take place from august 19 to 31 in the brest, pinsk, polesie and minsk regions, and is carried out by the 162nd and 252nd infantry divisions under the general leadership of ss gruppenführer eric fonbach in the execution of a special order from himmler. to destroy villages in the pripyat swamp area where resistance is shown, to shoot all those suspected of supporting the partisans. as evidenced by the materials of the prosecutor general's office of the republic on previously unknown in fact, it was a mass extermination of the population, although the method did not quite live up to the nazis' hopes. according to the report of the second ss cavalry regiment, this method did not give the expected result, since the swamps were not deep enough for t