The attitude of the German army towards the population in the occupied territories of the USSR caused a response - the creation of resistance units. Partisans blew up bridges, derailed trains, freed prisoners, destroyed occupiers, and owned military equipment. The action of Erich Hesse's work is based on a colossal amount of documentary material: orders, instructions of the German military and political leadership during the events to destroy the partisan movement, military diaries, summaries of the generalized experience of combat operations of ground forces, memoirs of participants and other documents.