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
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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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