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tomm · 1 januari 2011, 16:10

Ook zeer interessant om te weten, geen enkel ander volk heeft zo hard afgezien tijdens wereldoorlog 2 als de Wit Russen. Meer dan een kwart van de bevolking kwam om, en bijna alle infrastructuur en steden werden vernietigd. Het verzet van de lokale bevolking tegen de bezetter kende ook z'n weerga niet in Europa.

In reality, however, the Germans imposed a brutal racist regime, burning down some 9 000 Belarusian villages, deporting some 380,000 people for slave labour, and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians more. Local police took part in many of those crimes. Almost the whole, previously very numerous, Jewish populations of Belarus that did not evacuate was killed. One of the first uprisings of a Jewish ghetto against the Nazis occurred in 1942 in Belarus, in the small town of Lakhva.

Since the early days of the occupation, a powerful and increasingly well-coordinated Belarusian resistance movement emerged. Hiding in the woods and swamps, the partisans inflicted heavy damage to German supply lines and communications, disrupting railway tracks, bridges, telegraph wires, attacking supply depots, fuel dumps and transports and ambushing German soldiers. Not all anti-German partisans were pro-Soviet.[15] In the largest[citation needed] partisan sabotage action of the entire Second World War, the so-called Asipovichy diversion of July 30, 1943, four German trains with supplies and Tiger tanks were destroyed. To fight partisan activity, the Germans had to withdraw considerable forces behind their front line. On June 22, 1944, the huge Soviet offensive Operation Bagration was launched, finally regaining all of Belarus by the end of August.
In total, Belarus lost a quarter of its pre-war population in World War II, including practically all its intellectual elite. About 9 200 villages and 1.2 million houses were destroyed. The major towns of Minsk and Vitsebsk lost over 80% of their buildings and city infrastructure. For the defence against the Germans, and the tenacity during the German occupation, the capital Minsk was awarded the title Hero City after the war. The fortress of Brest was awarded the title Hero-Fortress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Belarus

Herdenking van "de grote patriottische oorlog" in Minsk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okVaU...eature=related

1 januari 2011, 16:10	#85
tomm Secretaris-Generaal VN Geregistreerd: 4 juli 2003 Locatie: Nederland Berichten: 43.676	Ook zeer interessant om te weten, geen enkel ander volk heeft zo hard afgezien tijdens wereldoorlog 2 als de Wit Russen. Meer dan een kwart van de bevolking kwam om, en bijna alle infrastructuur en steden werden vernietigd. Het verzet van de lokale bevolking tegen de bezetter kende ook z'n weerga niet in Europa. In reality, however, the Germans imposed a brutal racist regime, burning down some 9 000 Belarusian villages, deporting some 380,000 people for slave labour, and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians more. Local police took part in many of those crimes. Almost the whole, previously very numerous, Jewish populations of Belarus that did not evacuate was killed. One of the first uprisings of a Jewish ghetto against the Nazis occurred in 1942 in Belarus, in the small town of Lakhva. Since the early days of the occupation, a powerful and increasingly well-coordinated Belarusian resistance movement emerged. Hiding in the woods and swamps, the partisans inflicted heavy damage to German supply lines and communications, disrupting railway tracks, bridges, telegraph wires, attacking supply depots, fuel dumps and transports and ambushing German soldiers. Not all anti-German partisans were pro-Soviet.[15] In the largest[citation needed] partisan sabotage action of the entire Second World War, the so-called Asipovichy diversion of July 30, 1943, four German trains with supplies and Tiger tanks were destroyed. To fight partisan activity, the Germans had to withdraw considerable forces behind their front line. On June 22, 1944, the huge Soviet offensive Operation Bagration was launched, finally regaining all of Belarus by the end of August. In total, Belarus lost a quarter of its pre-war population in World War II, including practically all its intellectual elite. About 9 200 villages and 1.2 million houses were destroyed. The major towns of Minsk and Vitsebsk lost over 80% of their buildings and city infrastructure. For the defence against the Germans, and the tenacity during the German occupation, the capital Minsk was awarded the title Hero City after the war. The fortress of Brest was awarded the title Hero-Fortress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Belarus Herdenking van "de grote patriottische oorlog" in Minsk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okVaU...eature=related Laatst gewijzigd door tomm : 1 januari 2011 om 16:23.