This is the first public execution by hanging in the Nazi-occupied territories, on the day in Minsk at the plant arch hanged 12 Soviet underground fighters, helped the wounded Red Army to escape from captivity. In the photo – the time of preparing to hang the Soviet underground fighter Vladimir Shcherbatsevich. On the left – hung before 17-year-old Maria Bruskin.
The execution by hanging carried out by volunteers of the 2nd Battalion of the auxiliary police service from Lithuania, commanded by Maj. Antanas Impulevičius.
The Eastern Front of the Second World War in Europe.
Location: Minsk, Belarus, Soviet Russia
Time of photo taken: October 26, 1941