the commander of the twenty-sixth police regiment, lieutenant colonel vaysik gave the command.the punishers began to push them out of the pillars. and form groups of them: a woman, a child, young girls, an old man, shnel, shnel, pushing them in the back, the policeman yelled, shnel, shnel, pushed the frightened people into the field, slowly stepping, they moved forward, towards the forest. from the materials of the trial in minsk over eighteen nazi war criminals, january 1946. vaysik was listed under number 16 georg robert, commander of the twenty-sixth police regiment. conducted four punitive operations, especially distinguished himself during the operation spring festival. testimony of witness khrevents stepan aleksandrovich. during the punitive operation in the plis district, punitive units drove civilians in groups of 15-20 people in front of them, so that they would blow up and die on mines, clear minefields. the punitive operation spring festival was conducted from april 17 to may 5 , 1944 against the partizan-polotsko-lepelskaya partisan zone and the local population of