Leon Idas - German strategy on destroying villages
Transcript: The reason to come to these villages, to enter it, is because they knew there was a Partisan movement up in the mountains. And in order to survive these people, they had to have the help of these villages and the villagers. Have to sleep, they have to cook, they have to, to, you know, get provisions or anything. So therefore, they said that we're going to burn them up, when they killed these guys there at the village, then this way we eliminate the action of the Partisans against us. And where they were coming, they were burning up all the village. So there won't be anything. People cannot live, so they cannot stay there. And the same time to create animosity among the villages, they said because you were helping the Partisans, see what happened, they burn up our cows, they kill up our animals, they take whatever we have. So the other villagers found out that to help Partisans.