[000:00:00;00] reception evening top secret from the message of the head of the first department of the nkvd of the ussr fitino, secretary of the central committee of the all-union communist party of bolsheviks shcherbakov, and the atrocities of the germans in the occupied soviet territory received from the nkvd in the ussr on august 12, 1941 the original on july 23 of the whole year, having occupied the village of rogovsky pond of the pro-poy region, the germans opened machine-gun fire for the civilian population. then they started the robbery? along with robberies in the same village, the germans raped women and young girls in the rogachev region because the population the arrival of the germans destroyed the germans food, burned the village.

the germans burned the village of pankratovichi because they found the corpse of a murdered german soldier in it. such reports by the head of the foreign intelligence of the ussr, pavel fitin, to the country's top leadership, and the facts of the atrocities of the nazis on the territory of the bssr , were received almost daily from the first days of the war. but one shocked the world. the general prosecutor 's office of

the republic of belarus pripyat marshes toropetsk of the kholmsk and velizh offensive operations. military translators hastily processed intelligence, operational documents of the nazis' reports. among them , attention was drawn to the reports of the commanders of the regiments of the ss cavalry brigade with a note on the conduct of the pacifying pripyat operation. even a cursory acquaintance with them caused a shock. the document was reported personally to the commander of the fourth shock army, colonel-general andrei ivanovich eremenko, after studying the reports, it was decided to send them to the insertion of the supreme high command

materials were urgently delivered to moscow on april 27 , 1942 , a note was sent to the people's commissars for foreign affairs of the ussr vyacheslav molotov to the governments and missions of countries not at war with the soviet union. it also tells about the atrocities of the commanders of the ss cavalry brigade during the so-called pacifying pripyat operation. today , witnesses of those terrible events are still alive, their memoirs, the materials of the prosecutor general's office of belarus and the newly discovered facts of genocide against the civilian population help to understand what happened on the territory brest baranovichi useful and pinsk

regions in august forty-one. everyone was asleep. l did you dismantle people? the germans began a pacifying operation against civilians with round-ups of executions of a proven method of intimidating the population , these men were already gathered around the village, 15

people were taken there by a zasuka. clearing the occupied territories from encircled communist partisans and activists of other undesirable elements. the real goal of extermination was these most undesirable elements of civilians. fascists were covered, the territory of the baranovichi lyakhovichi gantsevichi kosovo,

ivatsevichi finnish, dragic ivanovo and pruzhany regions of belarus , what did this mean for the civilian population also in documentary evidence? and the residents

have already heard a lot about the massacres of the population. but the nazis behaved peacefully. the officer lined up the men and explained to them that they were going to other jobs. he immediately ordered two of them to come forward. they were taken to the side of the field. soon shots were heard. the officer calmly continued to explain that they need to hand over all the valuables of the ring money at a new place of work they

will not need to do this. ss men with fairy tales in their hands and forced to put jewelry in them. from the recollections of eyewitnesses in those terrible events, we learn that the same tragedies in the first months of the occupation played out everywhere. cleverly gathered 40 people and my grandmother and brother's wife got there at four columns on and left the machine guns to shoot. right away, the town is a module of the ivanovsky district,

here the punishers drove the entire jewish population to the men's market square built in a column and under escort led towards the village osovnitsy, supposedly to work, but soon shots rang out in total that day 1400 people were killed. according to the same scenario, in august 1941 , the population in other villages was destroyed. the fascists did not spare anyone. our house is where i was born, and the uncle of the other and the third uncle, too, all at once began to live at home, but people, of course, who, as best they could, began to escape. on the very first day of the war, the germans were in our village and my father was at home and

the germans came and said, go and the cattle. kick out in neighboring house. the father, it seems, went into the house there and started to run away with smoke, and, of course, they noticed him and started shooting at him. at a meeting in baranovichi on august 14, groups to which himmler was instructed to develop a well-thought-out military plan of operation already reported to the ss richfer and 13,788 marauders were destroyed. by them was meant the civilian population. the second stage of the operation pripyat swamps will take place from august 19 to 31 on the territory of the brest pinsk polessye and

minsk regions and will be carried out by forces of 162 and 252 infantry divisions under the general command of the ss influre group eric von bach, in fulfillment of himmler's special order , to destroy villages in the pripyat swamps, where resistance will be shot to anyone suspected of supporting the partisans. as evidenced by the materials of the prosecutor general's office of the republic and previously unknown facts, it was a mass extermination of the population, although the method did not quite live up to the hopes of the nazis. from the report of the second ss cavalry regiment this method did not give the expected result, as the marsh was not deep enough

for them to drown. during the operation pripyat swamps in july-august 1941, villages were burned. 73 people were killed in khatynichi, gantsevichi district, turov district for sand 300 people according to gost 69 rycha 26 storozhovtsy 30 people chernichi 40, kosovo region, velikaya gagat 123 people svyataya volya 436, paris district astashkovichi 120 people slaven, 72, pruzhany district, borki vybrody glushets zalesie kletnaya radets 13 people 1:38 people were destroyed in minsk in just one day

over 3,000 civilians. in the first months of the war, the nazis, according to the developed plans for clearing the occupied territories, began to use punitive operations, as one of the ways to get rid of the excess population in september-october 1941, 7.162 people were killed, but the most massive and sophisticated in their atrocities of the punitive operations of the nazis will fall on 1942 and they will be carried out throughout the territory of the republic until