the lenin brigade, led by commander tsakmarkin.at 6:00 am, german troops, after an artillery bombardment, supported by 12 bombers and 35 tanks, 12 of... rarely hand-to-hand combat, allowed tanks to approach at a distance of 30-50 m and opened fire, but did not surrender the partisan line. 26 days of resistance when we had to retreat, give up positions and again break through, conduct heavy battles with several groups and in different directions at once, but the enemy brought in more and more new forces. spring festival was the name of the punitive operation against the partisans of the polotsk-lepel zone, which was personally led by the group of ss troops von godberg and the commander of the third tank army , reinhardt. 60 thousand soldiers, officers, 70 aircraft, 137 tanks, 235. diagrams of the military council of the first baltic front, insert of the supreme high command. the germans, seeking to cleanse rear in the polotsk direction, launched a major offensive against the partisans of the polo-lepel zone. the military council of