it also contains the atrocities of the commanders of the ss cavalry brigade during the so-called pacifyingripyat operation. today , witnesses of those terrible events are still alive, their memoirs, materials of the prosecutor general's office, belarus and the newly discovered facts of genocide against the civilian population help to understand what happened on the territory of the brest baranovichi polessye and pinsk regions in august of the forty-first year. already on a flat bush, dad is already telling him. even the germans dismantled people to shoot. people think. i the sun was shining. it's already you there to shoot through , but you will be killed. the germans began the pacifying operation against civilians with clouds of executions of a proven method of intimidating the population of 15 people . the nazis carried out the operation in two stages. the goal is to clear the occupied territories from the encirclement of communist partisans and activists of other undesirable elements, but the real goal of extermination was these very undesirable elements of civilians. the nazis captured