The Holocaust in Belarus

'''''' (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" () in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood. Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progres

Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Jews, Slavs & Roma

Lakhva (also Lachva and Lachwa; Belarusian and Russian: Лахва, ; ) is a village in Luninets District, Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Lakhva selsoviet. It has a population of approximately 2,100.

destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres

Death count of a Nazi death squad, 1941

systematic extermination of Jews living in Byelorussia during its occupation by Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945

Old Synagogue in Belarus

During World War II, the Nazi German ''''''' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic murder of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, conv

1946 trial of German war criminals

World War II ghetto in Baranavichy, Belarus

Ukrainian organization

collaborationist military force of police established in July 1941

nazi war order

church building in Hlybokaye, Belarus

1941-1942 German Security Police unit

police unit size

Nazi ghetto in occupied Belarus

military unit

Nazi ghetto in occupied Belarus

Internal Nazi reports on the Holocaust

1941 German army conference

police formation under the command of the SS of Nazi Germany

Nazi ghetto in occupied Belarus

police formation under the command of the SS of Nazi Germany