10 days of hell

Exactly 75 years ago, on March 19, 1944, the Ozarichi death camp was liberated by the troops of the Soviet Union’s 65th Army under the command of General Batov. The camp had been established along the foremost defense line. With Hitler’s personal permission, the forest swamps were turned into a testing ground for bacteriological weapons. Some 50,000 people, including the elderly, women, and children, were infected with typhus in order to spread the disease to Rokossovsky’s soldiers and, hence, stop the Soviet offensive.

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