Military Crimes
Germany imposed a brutal regime, deporting some 380,000 people for slave labour, and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians more. At least 5,295 Belarusian settlements were destroyed by the Nazis and some or all their inhabitants killed (out of 9200 settlements that were burned or otherwise destroyed in Belarus during World War II). More than 600 villages like Khatyn were annihilated with their entire population. Altogether, 2,230,000 people were killed in Belarus during the three years of German occupation.
Read more about this topic: Occupation Of Belarus By Nazi Germany
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