118th scout-mine of the security battalion, three policemen and the commander of the first company hans wölkeled, the champion in throwing a shot at the olympic games in berlin in the thirty -sixth year, hitler's favorite, the german command was furiously pursuing the partizans on the way to khatyn, the policemen they shot a group of women who were cutting wood nearby, called for help and punishers from two battalions entered khatyn. they did not pursue the partisan, they took up the inhabitants of the village of khatyn, they herded them into the shed, set fire to the shed and then. uh, when some residents began to run out of the damp, they did not shoot them. here is a fragment of the testimony of one of the executioners , i don’t know if there were many children in the barn when we left. it was already burning down living people, there were no people in it. they smoked, only the charred corpses , large and small, for sure. it is known that the 118th schutzmannschaft police battalion was formed on the basis of fighters, the so-called bukovinian kuren of the ukrainian nationalist organization