Shved: Wehrmacht documents report about dozens of previously unknown extermination sites during Great Patriotic War

Dozens of previously unknown sites of mass extermination during the Great Patriotic War were found out from Wehrmacht documents transferred from the Russian Federation – as stated by Belarus’ Prosecutor General Andrei Shved at a meeting with employees of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry’s central office – as reported by the supervisory authority in its Telegram channel

“From them [Wehrmacht documents transferred from the Russian Federation], we found out dozens of previously unknown sites of mass extermination of people. We learned about conducted punitive operations that were not previously known,” Andrei Shved said.

The Prosecutor General noted that just a month ago he was informed that one of the documents indicated the conduct of the punitive operation, entitled ‘Monkey in a Cage’ that did not appear anywhere. It refers to the punitive operation carried out in the Vitebsk Region in late 1943.

As the Prosecutor General added, ‘it follows from the documents of the Wehrmacht that they destroyed dozens of settlements and, as they themselves write, at least 14,000 partisans, i.e., civilians’. Moreover, the consumption of ammunition was documented with particular scrupulousness.

During the meeting Andrei Shved spoke about the results of the investigation of the criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people, the horrific facts of the extermination of the civilian population and the connection of times in the politics of collaborators.