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German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II

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reestablished control over the region. Altogether, more than two million people were killed in Belarus during the three years of Nazi occupation, around a quarter of the region's population, or even as high as three million killed or thirty percent of the population, including 500,000 to 550,000 Jews
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deliberately provoked German reprisals, partly accounting for the high death toll, this conclusion has been disputed. A 2017 study focusing on the logistics of mass killing found "that Soviet partisan attacks against German personnel provoked reprisals against civilians but that attacks against
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movement emerged. Hiding in the woods and swamps, the partisans inflicted heavy damage to German supply lines and communications, disrupting railway tracks, bridges, telegraph wires, attacking supply depots, fuel dumps and transports, and ambushing Axis soldiers. In one of the most successful
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territory was occupied by the Germans by the end of August 1941. With Poland regarding the Soviet annexation as illegal, the majority of Polish citizens did not ask for Soviet citizenship from 1939 to 1941, and as a result were Polish citizens under Soviet and later German occupation.
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on 17 September 1939. More than 100,000 people of different ethnic backgrounds, mostly Poles and Jews in West Belarus, were imprisoned, executed or transported to the eastern USSR by Soviet authorities before the German invasion. The
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railroads had the opposite effect. Where partisans focused on disrupting German supply lines rather than killing Germans, occupying forces conducted fewer reprisals, burned fewer houses, and killed fewer people."
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In total, Belarus lost a quarter of its pre-war population in the Second World War, including practically all its intellectual elite. About 9,200 villages and 1,200,000 houses were destroyed. The major towns of
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The German invasion and occupation resulted in heavy human casualties, with some 380,000 people deported for slave labour, and the mass murder of hundreds of thousands more civilians. The ethnically
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lost over 80% of their buildings and city infrastructure. For the defense against the Germans, and the tenacity during the German occupation, the capital Minsk was awarded the title
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were destroyed. To fight partisan activity, the Germans had to withdraw considerable forces behind their front line. On 22 June 1944, the huge Soviet Strategic Offensive
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in the 1941 borders as a whole. Polish historiography insists on special, even separate treatment for the East Lands of the Poland in the 1921 borders (alias "
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which did not evacuate east ahead of the German advance was killed during the Holocaust by bullet. The list of eradicated Jewish ghettos in Nazi-Soviet
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The Soviet and Belarusian historiographies study the subject of German occupation in the context of contemporary Belarus, regarded as the
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Byelorussian population was intended to be exterminated, expelled, or enslaved as part of the German ethnic cleansing operation named
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Later in 1944, 30 German-trained Belarusians were airdropped behind the Soviet front line to spark disarray. These were known as "
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allies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Eastern Belarus suffered particularly heavily during the fighting and German
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Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, The Story of the Largest Armed Resistance by Jews During World War II
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On the way to the railway station in Minsk young people from Belarus march past the chairman of the
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Kalkulierte Morde: die deutsche Wirtschafts- und Vernichtungspolitik in Weißrußland 1941 bis 1944
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The Politics of Illusion and Empire: German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1942-1943
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GENOCIDE OF THE BELARUSIAN PEOPLE: INFORMATIONAL AND ANALYTICAL MATERIALS AND DOCUMENTS
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In the early days of the occupation, a powerful and increasingly well-coordinated
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extending eastward toward the border with the Soviet Belarus can be found at the
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Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions
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After twenty months of Soviet rule in Western Belarus and Western Ukraine,
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The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II
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partisan sabotage actions of the entire Second World War, the so-called
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was launched, finally regaining all of Belarus by the end of August.
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Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
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infiltrated these units and neutralized them by the end of 1946.
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14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galicia (1st Ukrainian)
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diversion of 30 July 1943, four German trains with supplies and
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Foreign relations of the Axis of World War II § Belarus
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29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS RONA (1st Russian)
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in 1941, and in 1943, the German authorities allowed local
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until it was fully liberated in August 1944 as a result of
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30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Belarusian)
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Zhukov, Yuri M. (2016). "On the Logistics of Violence".
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian & Eurasian History
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Bibliography of the history of Belarus and Byelorussia
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30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian)
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killed more than 1,000 prisoners in June and July 1941
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Stalin's Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II
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Mogilev Jews assembled for forced labour, July 1941
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German invasion of the Soviet Union
military occupation
Byelorussia
Operation Bagration
Reichskommissariat Ostland
collaborators
Belarusian Central Rada
Soviets
Holocaust in Belarus
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
West Belarus
were incorporated into the BSSR
invaded Poland
NKVD
killed more than 1,000 prisoners in June and July 1941
Chervyen
Military history of Belarus during World War II
Nazi Germany
Axis
occupation
Belarus

Soviet POWs
Belarusian resistance during World War II
Soviet partisan
Asipovichy
Tiger tanks
Operation Bagration

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