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{{Short description|Village in Mogilev Region, Belarus}}
'''Krucha''' ({{langx|be|Круча|Kruča}}; {{langx|ru|Круча}}) is a village in [[Kruhlaye District]], [[Mogilev Region]], [[Belarus]].
==History==
On October 10, 1941, during the [[Operation Barbarossa]], the entire Jewish population of Krucha was rounded up and shot. In total 150 men, women and children were murdered.{{sfn|Beorn|2014|p=120}}
This particular atrocity was committed by a regular [[Wehrmacht]] unit acting on its own initiative; it was not the work of the [[SS]] and its mobile killing units. The killings had been carried out by the 3rd Company, 691st Regiment, 339th Infantry Division on orders from the 1st Battalion commander, Major Alfred Commichau.{{sfn|Beorn|2014|pp=120-121}}
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===Bibliography===
* {{cite book | last  = Beorn | first = Waitman Wade  | title = [[Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus]] | url = | publisher = Harvard University Press | location = Cambridge, MA | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780674725508 }}
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[[Category:Populated places in Mogilev Region]]
[[Category:Kruhlaye District]]
[[Category:Holocaust locations in Belarus]]
[[Category:Villages in Belarus]]
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