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Khatyn massacre
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Khatyn massacre
Khatyn
or
Chatyn
(
Belarusian
and , ) was a village of 26 houses and 156 inhabitants in
Belarus
, in
Lahoysk Raion
,
Minsk Region
, 50 km away from Minsk. On 22 March 1943, the entire population of the village was
massacred
by the 118th
Schutzmannschaft
Nazi battalion. The battalion was formed in July 1942 in Kiev and was made up mostly of
Ukrainian nationalist
collaborators from Western Ukraine,
Hiwis
and the
Dirlewanger
Waffen-SS
special battalion.
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