the kiev region. commanded a battalion by major of the security police erich kerner and major konstantin smovskyend of the forty-second battalion was transferred to belarus and took part in punitive operations in minsk, vitebsk and grodno regions. on that day, the nazis called for reinforcements of the sonder ss team under the command of the criminal dir livanger, which was particularly cruel. having burst into khatyn and not finding partisans there, the massacre began on civilians . how did the events unfold beyond the testimony of eyewitnesses from the villagers of the settlement of the kamensky village council of the pleshchenitsky district, minsk region? march 25, 1943 on march 22 of the above year , german monsters attacked a neighboring hatyn carriage and burned its building. residents of 150 people were brutally tortured and burned men adults burned 40 women, 34 children of different ages from a month to 14 years old 70 a village of 26 households was completely burned. another khatyn was added to the sad list of burned belarusian villages in march 43. execution over the population of the