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80 years ago, in the Kiev ravine of Babi Yar, the nazis began mass executions of soviet citizens. First of all, the nazis sought to destroy the jews who lived in Kiev and its environs. The victims were also prisoners of war, communists, underground fighters, gypsies and others objectionable to the Third Reich. According to various estimates, in 1941-1943, the Nazis killed from 50 to 200 thousand people in the Babi Yar area. Hitler's executioners were assisted by collaborators from the ukrainian nationalists.
Babi Yar massacre begins | September 29, 1941 | HISTORY
The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children begins on the outskirts of Kiev in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The German army took Kiev on September 19, and special SS squads prepared to carry out Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s orders to exterminate all Jews and Soviet...
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