Memorial close to Azaryčy, inaugurated in 1994
2007 | A Blanket Saved Her Life
The Berlin-Karlshorst Museum is located in the former officers’ mess in Berlin, where the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht was signed on May 8, 1945, marking the end of the Second World War in Europe. The museum is dedicated to the history of the...
20.03.1944 | “Most inappropriate impositions”
In its final report of March 20, 1944, the SD Sonderkommando complained that there had been repeated attempts of interfering by uninvolved army officers during the execution of the marches to the final camps, which had hindered the successfull realization of the...
20.03.1944 | “There has not been a single case of unnecessarily harsh treatment”
On March 20, 1944, the SD Sonderkommando stated in its final report that although there had been fatigue among both the army troops and the civilians during the strenuous marches to the final camps, they had not recorded a single case of unnecessarily harsh treatment,...
18.03.1944 | Liberation
German soldiers left their positions in the night of March 16/17, 1944, thus completing the shift of the front line. The deported civilians remained in the camps near Azaryčy. The final report of the 9th Army headquarter states that Soviet reconnaissance forces only...