the village of buda, then litvichi, where the partisans managed to recapture the people who were beingsent to germany. for this, a special ss unit killed all the residents, set fire to all the houses, then went to neighboring settlements. zasovye, the punishers arrived on the eve of the tragedy on sunday, may 23, immediately after the bloody massacre. in litvichi. they arranged here they had a party, drank moonshine, played the harmonica and spent the night in the houses of their future victims. the destruction campaign began on the morning of monday, may 24. the punishers entered every house and shot everyone they came across, sparing neither women, nor old people, nor children, and then the so-called torchbearers set fire to the houses. that day , derlevanger's punishers destroyed 58 houses and burned 235 people in zasovye. leaving the bleached territory in place of zasovye, derlevanger and his team went to neighboring amnishevo and sloboda. in 2 days they destroyed 575 people. 185 of whom were children. at the end of the action, kurt von godberg wrote in a report: the partisan zone