of the rear district of the second panzer army, then the ninth infantry army, and general major adolf gamonary commandant of the cities of orel, bryansk and bobruisk, chief. one of the eyewitnesses, artyom ustimenko, fell. on january 14, 1944 , german units and the gendarmerie arrived in our village of ola, surrounded the village, this was at 8:00 in the morning, they began to set the village on fire, the population was driven into courtyards and shot with machine guns, and they also threw grenades at people. in my yard , up to 100 people were shot, civilians, including my relatives, the germans threw all those killed into... the fire, when my house began to burn, i managed to escape into the forest. on december 30 , 1945, at 11 a.m., the verdict was announced in bryansk. stein was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. bernhard hammann , to death by hanging, the sentence was not subject to appeal, carried out just a few hours later, the execution took place at 15:00 on the city square of bryansk, years will pass in the world's only cemetery of burned villages in khatyn, it will be immortaliz