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Minsk War Crimes Trial: Public Executions of Nazi Perpetrators in 1946
The Minsk War Crimes Trial of 1945–1946 exposed the brutal realities of Nazi occupation in Belarus and ended with the public execution of several German perpetrators responsible for mass atrocities.
In June 1941, 2 years after the beginning of the Second World War, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union. Within days, Belarus fell under German occupation, and the capital Minsk became one of the central sites of Nazi terror in Eastern Europe. What followed was not only a military occupation, but a campaign of systematic mass murder directed against civilians…
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