. two platoons of the first company 118 police security battalion under the command of hauptmann schutz-police welkeaged by partisans. welke personally assessed the damage. moving forward with several policemen along the line, after about 300 m, at that place. where it was completely torn apart, the nazis saw several workers busy felling the forest. questions at gunpoint. why are they working in this particular place, are there bandits here, and where is their camp? the workers convinced welke that the forest was being cut down on the instructions of the hibits commissar borisov. no bandits were seen. and they don’t know anything about them. the workers were released. they continued felling the forest, and welke ordered the police to begin repairing the line. unexpectedly, massive fire was opened on the nazis. in the ensuing battle they were killed. hautmann, a police jester in wielka and three ukrainian policemen, two were wounded. after a short but fierce battle, the enemy fled east to khatyn. the 118th police security battalion was formed in the fall of 1940 in kiev from among western ukrainian n