🛑 Khatyn

Khatyn was a village of 26 houses and 157 inhabitants in Belarus, in Lahoysk district, Minsk region, 50 km from Minsk. On 22 March 1943, almost its entire population was massacred by the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118, made up mostly of Ukrainian and other Soviet collaborators, assisted by the SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger, in retaliation for an attack on German troops by Soviet partisans.