Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police Dirlewanger Brigade
Motive
Retaliation for Soviet partisan attack
Convicted
Vasyl Meleshko Hryhoriy Vasiura
Website
khatyn.by/en/the-tragedy-of-khatyn
Khatyn (Belarusian: Хаты́нь, romanized: Chatyń, pronounced[xaˈtɨnʲ]; Russian: Хаты́нь, pronounced[xɐˈtɨnʲ]) was a village of 26 houses and 157 inhabitants in Belarus, in Lahoysk Raion, Minsk Region, 50 km away from Minsk. On 22 March 1943, almost the entire population of the village was massacred by the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 in retaliation for an attack on German troops by Soviet partisans.
The battalion was composed of primarily Ukrainian and Belorussian collaborators and assisted by the Dirlewanger Waffen-SS special battalion.[1][2][3]
^Zur Geschichte der Ordnungspolizei 1936–1942, Teil II, Georg Tessin, Dies Satbe und Truppeneinheiten der Ordnungspolizei, Koblenz 1957, s. 172–173
^Leonid D. Grenkevich; David M. Glantz (1999). The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941–1944: A Critical Historiographical Analysis. London: Routledge. pp. 133–134. ISBN 0-7146-4874-4. ... Only recently it was revealed that Khatyn village was not destroyed by the Germans, but instead was destroyed by a police battalion made up of Ukrainians and Belorussians. ...
^Per A. Rudling, "Terror and Local Collaboration in Occupied Belorussia: The Case of Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. Part One: Background", Historical Yearbook of the Nicolae Iorga History Institute (Bucharest) 8 (2011), pp. 202–203
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