top secret, from the report of the head of the first department of the nkvd of the ussr, fitin, to the secretary of the central committee of the supreme soviet of the communist party of the soviet union shcherbakov, about the atrocities of the germans in the occupied soviet territory, received from the nkvd of the bssr, august 12, 1941. original. on july 23 of this year, having occupied the village of rogovsky prudok, propoisky district, the germans opened machine gun fire on the civilian population, after which they began looting, along with looting in this same village the germans raped women and young girls, vrogachevsky district, because the population before the arrival of the germans destroyed food, the germans burned the village. the germans burned the village of pankratovishche because they found the body of a dead german soldier in it. such reports from the head of the ussr foreign intelligence pavel fitin to the country's top leadership about the facts of the nazi atrocities on the territory of the bssr were received almost daily from the first days of the war. but... one thi

top secret, from the message of the head of the first department of the nkvd of the ussr, fitin, to the secretary of the central committee of the supreme commander-in-chief of the supreme command, shcherbakov, about the atrocities germans in the occupied soviet. reports of terrorists on the territory of the bssr from the first days of the war were received almost daily, but one shocked the world. the prosecutor general's office of the republic of belarus. pripyat marshes. in january 1942, the headquarters of the fourth shock army of the kalinin front came into possession of an archive captured from the germans during the toropit-kholm and velezh offensive operations. military translators hastily processed the intelligence and operational. of the fourth shock army to colonel general the document was reported personally to the commander andrey ivanovich eremenko. after studying the reports, it was decided to send them to the supreme command headquarters. the materials were urgently delivered to moscow. on april 27, 1942, the ussr people's commissar for foreign affairs vyacheslav molotov s