The SAVAGE German Occupation of Minsk, Soviet Union (1941–44)
June 26, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe Belarussian capital Minsk was taken on 28 June 1941. Soviet sympathisers were killed or imprisoned, or were deported to Germany for slave labour. Homes were requisitioned to house German troops. Thousands starved as food was seized by the German Army and paid work was scarce. Minsk was the site of one of the largest Nazi-run ghettos in the Second World War, temporarily housing over 100,000 Jews (the Minsk Ghetto). Many were killed during the occupation. In October 1943 the Minsk Ghetto was liquidated.
In September 1943, SS official Wilhelm Kube was assassinated in his Minsk apartment by a time device hidden in his mattres placed by Soviet partisan Yelena Mazanik. Over 1,000 male citizens of Minsk were slaughtered in retaliation.
The city sustained enormous damage by the German bombings during the invasion. The Germans destroyed its university, and its academy of sciences. Factories, municipal buildings, power stations, bridges, most roads, and 80% of the houses were destroyed. In 1944, Minsk's population was reduced to a mere 50,000 out of a 300.000 pre-war population.
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