page_title: German war crimes
section_title: Belarus
hierarchical_section_title: German war crimes / Massacres and war crimes of World War II by location / Belarus
caption_attribution_description: English: Khaytyn Memorial, Belarus.
context_page_description: The governments of the German Empire and Nazi Germany ordered, organized and condoned a substantial number of war crimes, first in the Herero and Namaqua genocide and then in World War I and World War II. The most notable of these is the Holocaust in which millions of Jews and Romani were systematically murdered. Millions of civilians and prisoners of war also died as a result of German abuse, mistreatment, and deliberate starvation policies in those two conflicts. Much of the evidence was deliberately destroyed by the perpetrators, such as in Sonderaktion 1005, in an attempt to conceal the crimes.
context_section_description: The Holocaust in Belarus
  Anti-partisan operations in Belarus
  Operation Bamberg
  Operation Cottbus
  1941
  28 September – 17 October, Pleszczenice-Bischolin-Szack (Šacak)-Bobr-Uzda (White Ruthenia) massacre (1,126 children)
  1942
  26 March – 6 April, Operation Bamberg (Hłusk, Bobrujsk; 4,396 people, including children)
  9 – 12 May, Kliczów-Bobrujsk massacre (520 people, including children)
  Beginning of June, Słowodka-Bobrujsk massacre (1,000 people, including children)
  15 June Borki (powiat białostocki) massacre (1,741 people, including children)
  21 June Zbyszin massacre (1,076 people, including children)
  25 June Timkowiczi massacre (900 people, including children)
  26 June Studenka massacre (836 people, including children)
  18 July, Jelsk massacre (1,000 people, including children)
  15 July – 7 August, Operation Adler (Bobrujsk, Mohylew, Berezyna; 1,381 people, including children)
  14 – 20 August, Operation Greif (Orsza, Witebsk; 796 people, including children)
  22 August – 21 September, Operation Sumpffieber (White Ruthenia; 10,063 people, including children)
  August, Bereźne massacre
  22 September – 26 September, Małoryta massacre; 4,038 people, including children)
  23 September – 3 October, Operation Blitz (Połock, Witebsk; 567 people, including children)
  11 – 23 October, Operation Karlsbad (Orsza, Witebsk; 1,051 people, including children)
  23 – 29 November, Operation Nürnberg (Dubrowka; 2,974 people, including children)
  10 – 21 December, Operation Hamburg (Niemen River-Szczara River; 6,172 people, including children)
  22 – 29 December, Operation Altona (Słonim; 1,032 people, including children)
  1943
  6 – 14 January, Operation Franz (Grodsjanka; 2,025 people, including children)
  10 – 11 January, Operation Peter (Kliczów, Kolbcza; 1,400 people, including children)
  18 – 23 January, Słuck-Mińsk-Czerwień massacre (825 people, including children)
  28 January – 15 February, Operation Schneehase;  Połock, Rossony, Krasnopole; 2,283 people, including children); 54; 37
  Until 28 January, Operation Erntefest I (Czerwień, Osipowicze; 1,228 people, including children)
  Jaanuar, Operation Eisbär (between Briańsk and Dmitriev-Lgowski)
  Until 1 February, Operation Waldwinter (Sirotino-Trudy; 1,627 people, including children)
  8 – 26 February, Operation Hornung (Lenin, Hancewicze; 12,897 people, including children)
  Until 9 February, Operation Erntefest II (Słuck, Kopyl; 2,325 people, including children)
  15 February – end of March, Operation Winterzauber (Oświeja, Latvian border; 3,904 people, including children)
  22 February – 8 March, Operation Kugelblitz (Połock, Oświeja, Dryssa, Rossony; 3,780 people, including children)
  Until 19 March, Operation Nixe (Ptycz, Mikaszewicze, Pińsk; 400 people, including children)
  Until 21 March, Operation Föhn (Pińsk; 543 people, including children)
  21 March – 2 April, Operation Donnerkeil (Połock, Witebsk; 542 people, including children)
  1 – 9 May, Operation Draufgänger II (Rudnja and Manyly forest; 680 people, including children)
  17 – 21 May, Operation Maigewitter (Witebsk, Suraż, Gorodok; 2,441 people, including children)
  20 May – 23 June, Operation Cottbus (Lepel, Begomel, Uszacz; 11,796 people, including children)
  27 May – 10 June, Operation Weichsel (Dniepr-Prypeć triangle, South-West of Homel; 4,018 people, including children)
  13 – 16 June, Operation Ziethen (Rzeczyca; 160 people, including children)
  25 June – 27 July, Operation Seydlitz (Owrucz-Mozyrz; 5,106 people, including children)
  30 July, Mozyrz massacre (501 people, including children)
  Until 14 July, Operation Günther (Woloszyn, Lagoisk; 3,993 people, including children)
  13 July – 11 August, Operation Hermann (Iwie, Nowogródek, Woloszyn, Stołpce; 4,280 people, including children)
  24 September – 10 October, Operation Fritz (Głębokie; 509 people, including children)
  9 October – 22 October, Stary Bychów massacre (1,769 people, including children)
  1 November – 18 November, Operation Heinrich (Rossony, Połock, Idrica; 5,452 people, including children)
  December, Spasskoje massacre (628 people, including children)
  December, Biały massacre (1,453 people, including 
caption: Khatyn Memorial. The sculpture depicts Yuzif Kaminsky, the only adult to survive the massacre, holding his dead son Adam.
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