at the beginning of march 1944, military intelligence 65 the army reported to its commander pavel ivanovich batovat a camp had been discovered on the territory of the kalinkovichi region, where a large number of civilians were being held in the open air. judging by all the signs, this is exactly the camp about which there was already operational information. the germans in polesie organized the typhoid camp as a defensive shield against the advancing red army. the last hopes of stopping the rapid advance of soviet troops were pinned on him. it was assumed that when the camp was liberated, it would begin among them mass infection. now the information was confirmed, intelligence reported that behind the barbed wire a large number of people were on the ground, there were no buildings on the territory, except for towers for german guards, there were many corpses, many patients with typhus, the approaches to the camp were mined. bending over the map of the area, the scouts began to detail. tell where, in what place approaches to the camp can be organized, how to neutralize the guards and begin deminin