SS unit targets Belorussian villagers
21 February 1942: The notorious Sonderkommando Dirlewanger begins a campaign of atrocities against men, women and children in rural Belorussia
In 1940 Hitler and Himmler had discussed the employment of convicted poachers to hunt down Partisans and escaped Jews. Rather than let criminal…
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