ss operative genführer von gottberg himself was one of the first to be awarded the honorary. breastplatefor fighting partisans, but neither the awards nor the cruelty of the fascists could stop the resistance of the belarusian people, the offensive of the red army. on september 23 , 1943, the first settlement of belarus, komarin, was liberated. in december, the first regional center, gomel. brutal. and there they burned, maybe 30 people and burned the entire village of estkovo, now there is a small monument there, only the village is no longer there, the second time anyway. on the morning of april 20, 1944, not far from the village of nadozerye, plissky district of vitebsk area, the germans drove the inhabitants of the surrounding villages into the field. 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, s