The Shoah (1939–1945)
Massacre of Slutsk
27-28 oct. 1941·Slutsk
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A battalion from Lithuania liquidates the community in two days; the German district commissioner protests in writing against the brutality of the operation.
At the end of October 1941, a battalion that had come from Lithuania entered Slutsk, in Belorussia, and liquidated the community over two days of shootings. Men were dragged from their homes and workshops, including those whom the German administration had exempted as indispensable craftsmen, and shot at pits dug outside the town; the houses were looted during the operation.
The German district commissioner, Heinrich Carl, addressed to his superiors a written protest against the brutality of the operation and the looting, the text of which has been preserved: in it he describes indescribable scenes and complains of having lost his workforce. The document has remained one of the most explicit administrative testimonies regarding the shootings in the East.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
Rapport du commissaire de district de Slutsk ; documentation des Einsatzgruppen et des bataillons de police.