ss groupfüror von gottberg himself in january 1944 was one of the first to be awarded an honorary badgefight against partisans. but neither the awards nor the cruelty of the fascists... could stop the resistance of the belarusian people and the advance of the red army. on september 23, 43 the first inhabited city was liberated belarus point komarin. in december, the first regional center, gomel. the brutal fascists resisted desperately. in the fall of 1943 , they caught us for the second time anyway , they punished us, and then they brought long-tailed dogs somewhere from latvia , there was a camp there, they lived there in a camp and worked for the latvians, they detained us very poorly, it was cold and everything was hungry. on the morning of april 20, 1944 , not far from the village of nadozerye, plisa district, vitebsk region, the germans herded residents of surrounding villages onto a field. commander of the twenty-sixth police regiment, lieutenant colonel vaysik gave the command. the punishers began to push people out of the crowd and form groups of them. woman, child, young girls