Operation Hornung

Operation Hornung
	Part of World War II
	; Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski and Ordnungspolizei in Minsk, ca 1943.
Date	February 8–26, 1943
Location	Hancewicze, Morocz, Lenin, Łuniniec, Belarus
Result	German victory
Belligerents
Germany; Russian Volunteers;	Belarusian partisans
Commanders and leaders
Oskar Dirlewanger; Franz Magill; Siegfried Binz	Vasily Korzh
Strength
Dirlewanger Special Battalion,; Russian company,; Combat Group Binz,; Einsatzgruppe B with the collaborator battalion Rodionov	Unknown
Casualties and losses
29 killed; 133 weapons captured	12,897 civilians/partisans killed

Operation Hornung was an anti-partisan operation during the Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany, carried out in February 1943. It was directed against the area Hancewicze-Morocz-Lenin-Łuniniec, a thinly populated area of about 4,000 square kilometers southwest of Słuck on the southern border of the Regional Commissariat White Ruthenia. It came in the sequence of three actions (including Erntefest I and Erntefest II) that had taken place in January further to the northeast, in the area of Słuck-Osipowicze; it claimed over 12,000 victims.