Reichskommissariat Ostland - Partisan Movement

Partisan Movement

See also: Belarusian resistance movement, Estonian anti-German resistance movement 1941-1944, Latvian resistance movement, Polish resistance movement in World War II, Resistance in Lithuania during World War II, Jewish partisans, and Operation Ostra Brama

German and local security authorities were kept busy by Soviet partisan activities in Belarus. They noted that "infected zones" of partisan action included an area of 500 or 600 km², around Minsk, Pinsk, Gomel, Briansk, Smolensk and Vitebsk, including the principal roads and railways in these areas.

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    “All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”
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