julius bohumil, who turned out to be a czech jura, explained that he had been working for his family old. he was forcibly taken into the army, but he does not want to fight against the russians. bending over a map of the area, he outlined the area of ​​possible nazi offensive. having assessed the situation, the detachment’s leadership decided not to engage in direct clashes with the enemy at the site of the proposed battles, and to remove the civilian population from them as much as possible. as a result of the punitive operation of bamberg, the nazis failed to liquidate the october-luben partisan zone. it was successful only against the civilian population. during the period of the so -called pacification action , about eighty belarusian villages were damaged, 3,600 houses were burned, more than 5,000 died residents. particular atrocities were committed by the punitive forces against the village of khvoynya, 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 fight against the partisans. the