About the book: 1979 / Of the total number of 9,200 Belarusian villages burned by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, 4,885 were destroyed by punitive forces . 627 villages were completely killed, including all their inhabitants, and 4,258 with part of the population. The racist plan for the extermination of the Slavic peoples was carried out - the “General Plan “Ost””. “If they ask me,” said the Fuhrer of the fascist cannibals, “what I mean when I talk about the destruction of the population, I will answer that I mean the destruction of entire racial units.” More than 370 thousand active partisans, united in 1255 detachments, 70 thousand underground fighters - This was the response of the Belarusian people to the calculations of the “theoreticians” and “practitioners” of fascism, the response to the fact that the Belarusians were supposedly “the most harmless” of all the Slavs... The half-million army of fascist murderers was swallowed up by the angry land of Soviet Belarus. Entire regions of the republic were inaccessible to the occupiers. Simultaneous guerrilla attacks on all communications, unprecedented in the history of wars, were carried out - a “rail war”!.. Behind enemy lines, throughout the temporarily occupied territory of the USSR, a “second” front actually operated. In this book there are stories about villages that were killed, about areas burned out along with people. But behind the fate of these villages, these people, we need to see something else: hundreds of thousands of children, women, elderly and infirm residents of our villages and cities, people who were saved and saved from extermination by the national partisan army, taking them into the forests, behind the front line…