The Supreme Court begins considering the case on charges of Nazi Siegling in the genocide of the Belarusian people

The trial will be open, with the participation of the state prosecutor and a defense lawyer. According to the case file, the accused carried out orders in the interests of Nazi Germany during the war. Since his deployment in the occupied territory of the BSSR, he led a Ukrainian police company and a battalion of the security police. He organized punitive operations against civilians and personally participated in them. According to the investigation, at least 1.700 people died at the hands of the Nazi on Belarusian land, almost 240 of them children. After the Great Patriotic War, Hans Siegling lived in his homeland in Bavaria, where he died in 1978. This is the sixth criminal case against a Nazi in the history of Belarus.