Basic Overview
End date: 10 October 1943
Scope: Minor
Nature: Ethnic, Racial cleansing
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Eastern Front
Nations Involved
- Germany
- USSR
Leadership
- von Gottberg, Curt
Operation Details
'Fritz' (ii) was a German operation in the Belorussia region of the German-occupied western USSR by a combined force of Sicherheitsdienst personnel, police and SS troops of the Kampfgruppe 'von Gottberg' under the command of SS-BrigadefĂĽhrer und Generalmajor der Polizei Curt von Gottberg against so-called partisans (largely Jews and other 'undesirables') (24 September/10 October 1943).
,The operation targeted the area of Glebokie, and was also directed against Vladimir Rodionov’s Russian collaborator unit which had defected on 18 August after 'Cottbus' (iii).
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