in the military-historical journal white emigration sentinel, which surrendered in paris until 1988,baltins was published entitled, i dare not remain silent, in it about the terrible atrocities during the punitive operation swamp fever, about what the latvian legionnaires did from. .. tyzhsky ss battalion on belarusian soil. i don’t remember the name of the village in which my attention was attracted by a cloud of flies circling over a wooden barrel. looking into the barrel, i saw in it severed male heads. some had mustaches and beards. after talking with the surviving residents, we had no doubt that there was also an operation here. latvian ss men, even those who were on the other side, were horrified by the cruelty of the latvian ss legion. the punitive operation swamp fever lasted until september 21. legionnaires from among the latvian nazis, the 15th, 24th, and twenty-sixth latvian police battalions became accomplices of the fascists. the village of trakhimovichi, dyatlovo district, grodno region, memorial day, has already passed the raid, then came the lithuanians and the latian