in the shirokaya area, but i remember well, let’s say, a kunz camp in the area of what is now kuibushevzhy streets. on a hill surrounded by barbed wires, there was a large, large camp for prisoners of war, but there were also just civilians, we often visited there, one of the first camps was created on june 29 , 1941 by order of the commander of the fourth army, kluge, in the area of the village of drozdy near minsk. about 140,000 military personnel and the civilian male population of minsk, under the pretext of re-registration, found themselves in an open field. what happened in the camp in facts and figures, recorded by the emergency state commission to establish the atrocities of the nazi invaders and their accomplices. in the first 12 days, the nazis shot more than 10,000 people in the blackbirds, about 2,000 died due to heat, hunger, and the outbreak of the epidemic. thus, the nazis began to implement plans regarding the local population, prisoners of war, whom hitler ordered not to be considered as front-line soldiers. to avoid an epidemic, the camp in drozdy began to be disband