civilian population to danger, it was decided to send three parliamentarians to the city commandant otto von lyash the demands of the soviet side. the bunker itself, it has been preserved, in which the city commandant was sitting, so they were able to get here at the moment of the ceasefire, three, yanovsky and fedorkovich pitalnik and conveyed this proposal, to which the city commandant vottylash responded with consent, and thus the city surrendered, but for a long time there was a blank spot in the history of the city and its environs; neither local residents nor historians... knew about the death march in palmnikin in january 1945, until martin bergau decided to tell the whole truth. in 1945 he was 15 years old, he lived in polmnikin and was a member of the local hitler jugend. these teenagers were tasked with catching those prisoners who survived the death march and managed to hide in the forest, and then escort them to be shot. the massacre took place in front of martin. i saw how a deep ditch was filled with bodies, they were forced kneel down, and then they killed in cold blood, there were