Crime against civilians in Ozarichi camps to be called Wehrmacht’s biggest crime

Restoring justice to the dead is an important and historic task. Let us return to the most difficult years for our country - the times of the Great Patriotic War. In March 1944 the Wehrmacht created a death camp at the forefront of the defense, in the forest swamps of the Polesie region. There were 50 thousand people under the open sky, without any buildings and sanitary facilities. These were old men, women and children. They were used as a human shield from the advancing units of the Red Army. In addition, the prisoners have become bacteriological weapons. Innocent people were infected with typhus in order for the disease to spread to our soldiers to stop the Red Army.

The camp lasted only 10 days, but during this time more than 9 thousand people died. The exact figure is not known today. At the international tribunal in Nuremberg, the crime against civilians in the Ozarichi camps was called the Wehrmacht’s biggest crime during the World War II. Until recently, there was a theory in Germany about the pure Wehrmacht and the criminal SS.

And if concentration camps and death camps were the work of the SS and Hitler’s personal security services, Ozarichi camps were created by ordinary soldiers of the German army.