julius bagumil, who turned out to be czech-yura, explained that he was from a working-class family and worked since he was 14. he was forcibly taken into the army, but he did not want to fight against russians do not want. leaning over a map of the area, he outlined the area of ​​a possible fascist offensive. having assessed the situation, the detachment leadership decided to leave the areas of the expected battles , not to engage in direct clashes with the enemy, and to withdraw the civilian population as much as possible from them. as a result of the punitive operation bamberg , the fascists were unable to liquidate the october-luben partisan zone. it was successful only in relation to the civilian population. during the period of the so -called pacifying action, about eighty belarusian villages. 3,600 houses were burned, more than 5,000 residents died. the punitive forces committed a particular atrocity against the village of khvoynya in the petrikovsky district, where 1,419 of its residents were killed. the nazis were preparing to take revenge for their failures at the front in the