the operation was called the pripyat march or pripyat marshes. these were one of the first bloody nazi operations in belarus to quickly liberate the occupied territories from the local population. 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, for command only, from hitler’s speech at a meeting in the imperial chancellery on november 5 1937. there can only be one path: the path of violence. germany's goal is to seize living space in the east and its merciless germanization. on august 9, 1940, hitler issued an order to prepare for the blitzkrieg. it must be implemented before the winter of 1941. it went down in history as the au wbau-ost plan. information in the areas of barbaros and about special events of the troops. it prescribed complete ruthlessness towards the civilian population. we are obliged to exterminate the population. we will have to develop techniques for exterminating the population, and such a technique was develop

gruppenführer eric von bach in pursuance of a special order from himler, to destroy villages in the pripyat marshes resistance will be shown, and to shoot all those suspected of supporting the partisans. as evidenced by the materials the prosecutor general's office of the republic about previously unknown facts, it was a mass extermination of the population, although the method did not quite live up to the hopes of the nazis. from the report of the 2nd ss cavalry regiment. this method did not give the expected result, since the swamp was not deep enough for them to drown. during the operation , the pripyat swamps in july-august 1941 burned the village. khatynichi, gantsevichesky district, 73 people were killed. turov district, zapiochya - 300 people, pogost - 69, rycha - 26. storazhovtsy - 30 people, chernichi - 40. kosovo district, velikaya gad, person, holy will 436. parichi district, ostashkovishte, 120 people, slaven 72. pruzhansky. borki, vybrody, glushets, zalesye, kletnaya, radec, 13 people, chatel, 38 people. on one day alone , more than 3.00 civilians were killed in pinsk . in the first mo