Basic Overview
End date: 14 January 1943
Scope: Minor
Nature: Ethnic, Racial cleansing
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Eastern Front
Nations Involved
- Germany
- USSR
Leadership
- von Gottberg, Curt
Formation
- German Kampfgruppe 'von Gottberg'
Operation Details
'Franz' (i) was a German operation by a combined force of Sicherheitsdienst personnel, police and SS troops of the Kampfgruppe von Gottberg under the command of SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Curt von Gottberg against so-called partisans (largely Jews and other 'undesirables) in the Belorussian region of the German-occupied western USSR (5/14 January 1943).
,The operation targeted the area of Osipowitz, Grodsianka and Makowie, and resulted in the deaths of 2,025 persons and, for the first time, the deportation of a significant number of people (1,000 or so) as forced labourers.
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