On October 6, 1945 Col. Smirnov, assistant prosecutor of the USSR, addresses the Nuremberg Tribunal. In his indictment against Nazi officials, he also mentions the deportations of Belarusian civilians to the Azaryčy concentration camps.
“At the beginning of 1944 in the Ozarichi region of the Bielorussian S.S.R., before liberation by the Red Army, the Germans established three concentration camps without shelters, to which they committed tens of thousands of persons from the neighboring territories. They brought many people to these camps from typhus hospitals intentionally, for the purpose of infecting the other persons interned and for spreading the disease in territories from which the Germans were being driven by the Red Army. In these camps there were many murders and crimes.”
Source: https://azarycy1944.nghm-uos.de/en/the-concentrations-camps-near-ozarichi/.
