karl wolf, the chief of his personal staff, also arrived in baranovichi with him.ys accompanied himmler on trips to concentration camps, sites of punitive operations. now his report was coming, as well as that of the supreme fuhrer in central russia and belarus. results of the operation on the resettlement of the population from belovezhskaya pushcha, a separate report on the territories of brest, baranovichi, polesie and pinsk regions. they had to be cleared of elements enemy to the germans, partisans, units of the red army that were surrounded, and also from the inhabitants of these areas. the operation was called: pripyat march or pripyat swamps? these were one of the first bloody nazi operations in belarus to quickly liberate the occupied territories from the local population, but such plans of the nazis have been incubating for a long time. it was under the slogan of the exclusivity of the german nation and the need to expand living space for the german population that hitler came to power. top secret, only for command. from hitler's speech at a meeting in the

now, karl doenitz, looking back, the first world war had come up with what he viewed as the antidote to this british tactic. this was the idea of the wolfck. the idea was that the german submarines would be, well equipped with communications equipment if. one german submarine happened to find a convoy proceeding across the atlantic it would maintain a safe and radio back to germany to its headquarters which was either in france or germany. and then he would begin alerting other u-boats to converge on convoy at an opportune point. but then other german u-boats could descend and, they could attack in mass disrupting the convoy, an overwhelming convoy escorts. and keep in mind at the beginning of the war, the british had nowhere near vessels to protect these these convoys as we'll see in a moment. some would transit the atlantic with only one or two really capable ships. so a wolf pack of five or six submarines could absolutely overwhelm and and devastate a convoy very rapidly. now, this idea, this tactic of wolf pack require or did have one fundamental vulnerability required long distance coordination by radio, which meant that in theory