24 Jun 1941
Photo(s) dated 24 Jun 1941
Photo(s) dated 24 Jun 1941
30 Jun 1941
Byelorussia
Byelorussia
- At least 100 of the Soviet bombers attacking German tanks near Minsk, Byelorussia were shot down by aircraft of Oberst Werner Mölders' JG-51. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Minsk | TH]
21 Jul 1941
Byelorussia
Byelorussia
- Outside Minsk, Byelorussia, German SS troops ordered 30 Byelorussians to bury 45 Jews alive in a pit; upon meeting refusal, the SS men executed the entire group of 75 by machine gun fire. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Minsk | CPC]
30 Jan 1946
Byelorussia
Byelorussia
- Johann Georg Richert was found guilty and was executed in Minsk, Byelorussia. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Minsk | CPC]
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