the ss under the command of the criminal dir livanger, who was distinguished by particular cruelty. having burst into khatyn and not finding partisans there, the massacre began on civilians . how did the events unfold beyond the testimony of eyewitnesses from the villagers of the settlement of the kamensky village council of the pleshchenitsky district, minsk region? march 22 and burned her building. residents in in the amount of 150 people were brutally tortured and burned men adults burned 40 women, 34 children of different ages from a month to 14 years old 70 a village of 26 households was completely burned to the sad list of burned belarusian villages in march forty-three , another khatyn was added. the execution of the population of the village of khatyn became the last chord of the bloody operation winter magic , or in the german version of the winter spell, it was carried out from february 16 to march 31, 1943 in a triangle. chief performers german units, which were also present, anti-aircraft and artillery units, a communications platoon, two special police groups and a sd s