{"id":1024684,"date":"2026-06-18T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1024684"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:52:35","slug":"the-national-archives-of-the-republic-of-belarus-presents-two-new-publications-on-the-history-of-the-great-patriotic-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1024684","title":{"rendered":"The National Archives of the Republic of Belarus presents two new publications on the history of the Great Patriotic War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2026, <strong>the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus<\/strong> presented two new documentary publications to the scientific community and all history buffs. These publications explore important and still understudied aspects of the history of <strong>the Great Patriotic War<\/strong>. These collections include new documents and those previously unpublished in scholarly and public dissemination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00abJune 22, 1941 in the Documents of German Army Group Center\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This collection includes 218 documents from the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the US National Archives (NARA), and the German Federal Military Archives (BA-MA).<\/p>\n<p>The book presents orders, instructions, reports, combat logs, and other documents from military units of German Army Group Center.<\/p>\n<p>The documents are organized by unit and formation, and within sections, by chronology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00abAction 1005\u00bb in Belarus: Nazi Eradication of Crime Traces<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This collection details Nazi efforts to conceal traces of mass murder in the Byelorussian SSR.<\/p>\n<p>It includes 78 documents from the collections of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus and regional archives in Belarus, Russia, and Latvia. These materials include intelligence reports, dispatches, and encrypted telegrams from the Belarusian Partisan Movement Headquarters, ESG reports, interrogation protocols of Sonderkommando and Einsatzkommando soldiers, investigative files, and witness testimony.<\/p>\n<p>This publication can be accessed at <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/virt_vyst\/narb_action_1005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>the following link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured:<\/strong> Photos of collections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-103.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1085126\" class=\"wp-image-1085126 alignnone size-full\" width=\"60%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2026, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus presented two new documentary publications to the scientific community and all history buffs. These publications explore important and still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024686,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024684\/revisions\/1024686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}