According to State Memorial Complex " Khatyn " created by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus , the Nazi regime deported some 380,000 Belarusians to Germany for slave labour and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians . At least 5,295 Belarusian settlements were destroyed and their inhabitants murdered ( out of 9,200 settlements that were burned or otherwise destroyed in Belarus during World War II ) . According to SMC " Khatyn " , 243 Belarusian villages were burned twice , 83 villages three times , and 22 villages were burned four or more times in the Vitebsk region . In the Mińsk region 92 villages were burned twice , 40 villages three times , nine villages four times , and six villages five or more times . More than 600 villages like Khatyn ( see : the Khatyn massacre ) were annihilated with their entire population . More than 209 cities and towns ( out of 270 total ) were destroyed
Khatyn massacre
Khatyn massacre
The Holocaust in Belarus