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Khatyn massacre

This article is about the massacre of Belarusian civilians in 1943. For the massacre of Polish officers in 1940, see Katyn massacre.
Khatyn massacre
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
LocationKhatyn village, Lahoysk District, Minsk Region, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Coordinates54°20′06″N 27°56′42″E / 54.33500°N 27.94500°E / 54.33500; 27.94500
Date22 March 1943
TargetBelarusians
WeaponsImmolation and shooting
Deaths149
Injured2
PerpetratorsSchutzmannschaft Battalion 118 of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
Dirlewanger Brigade
MotiveRetaliation for Soviet partisan attack
ConvictedVasyl Meleshko
Hryhoriy Vasiura
Websitekhatyn.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]

  1. ^ Zur Geschichte der Ordnungspolizei 1936–1942, Teil II, Georg Tessin, Dies Satbe und Truppeneinheiten der Ordnungspolizei, Koblenz 1957, s. 172–173
  2. ^ 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. ...
  3. ^ 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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