80 years since liberation of Ozarichi death camps prisoners

On March 19, 1944, troops of the 65th Army under the command of Lieutenant General Pavel Batov of the 1st Belorussian Front liberated the prisoners of the Ozarich death camps. The Wehrmacht shielded itself from the advancing Red Army units with old men, women and children. 50 thousand people were driven into swamps and left without food, water, and warm clothes. In addition, the prisoners were infected with typhus. The Third Reich used bacteriological weapons in the Polesye swamps to stop the Soviet advance. Back in 1946, at the international tribunal in Nuremberg, the organuzation of death camps was called the worst crime of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. But the atrocities of the Fuhrer's followers did not receive wide publicity. After all, Germany had a doctrine of "clean Wehrmacht".