Come and See -- 7 of 14

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Description: "Saving Private Ryan"? This is a very good movie. Unfortunately, it doesn't show you what the war is about. It does not show you the real victims of the WAR. We all know about Nurnberg process, Holocaust, concentration camps... How many of you know about German's atrocities (yes, German's, not only Nazi's) on the occupied Soviet territories? How many of you have heard of the little village Khatyn and its fate? The screenplay was written by Ales Adamovich in collaboration with Elem Klimov. The words Come and See ("Иди и смотри" in Russian) quote from The Apocalypse of John, chapter 6, ...and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!" (In Russian: "...и я услышал одно из четырех животных, говорящее как бы громовым голосом: иди и смотри.") Khatyn (Belarusian and Russian: Хаты́нь) is a village in Belarus, all of whose inhabitants (149 people) were burnt alive by the Nazis, with participation of Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators from the 118th Schutzmannschaft battalion, on 22 March 1943. In the Soviet Union, Khatyn became a symbol of mass killings of the civilian population, which were carried out by the Germans and their collaborators. Hundreds of similar settlements shared the fate of Khatyn in Belarus during World War II At least 5,295 Belarusian settlements were destroyed by the Nazis and some or all their inhabitants killed (out of 9200 settlements that were burned or otherwise destroyed in Belarus during World War II). 243 Belarusian villages were burned down twice, 83 villages three times, and 22 villages were burned down four or more times in the Vitebsk region. 92 villages were burned down twice, 40 villages three times, nine villages four times, and six villages five or more times in the Minsk region. Altogether, 2,230,000 people were killed in Belarus within the three years of German occupation. All told, a quarter of the republic's population died in WWII.
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