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From 1941-1945 the Germans were responsible for almost all of the political murder
In summer 1941 they had 4 uptopias:
A swift victory against the Soviet union,

a Hunger Plan that would starve thirty million people in months,
a Final solution that would eliminate European jews after the war
a Generalplan Ost that would make of the western Soviet Union a German
colony
The Hunger plan proved impossible,
Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe
Hitlers invasion of Poland was ruthless, multiple incidences of mass killings under
either false or punitive pretenses
Ukrainians sad to see Polish soldiers as they still thought Poland may relieve them
of Soviet rule
The Molotov-Ribbentrop line is the line that separated German and Soviet rule of
Poland neutrality pact
Tool of persecution, the Einsatzgruppe was the creation of Heinrich Himmlers right
hand man, Reinhard Heydrich. A special task force led by Security Police. In Czech
and Austria they were not ordered to kill any specific groups but in Poland they
eliminated the educated classes of a defeated enemy.
Unlike the experienced NKVD, the Einsatzgruppen did not follow protocols and did
not murder who they were supposed to or keep records of the people they killed.
Germans and Hitler wanted to put the Jews and Poles somewhere in eastern district
in some kind of natural preserve, which quickly turned into the ghettos.
Stalinism legitimate to destroy the Polish upper class
Natioanl Socialism destroy the artificially educated layers of Polish subhumanity
Stalin had an economic revolution to defend, Hitler needed a war for his economic
transformation
In the long run Nazis Generalplan Ost involved seizing farmland, destroying those
who farmed it and settling it with Germans
Wanted food from Ukraine, food fromt his region would supply Germany and
western Europe not east
Hunger plan- feed Germans soldiers by starving Soviet people
Goring and Kaganovich had the same ideals both thought starvation was the
weapon of the enemy
Germans took Kiev in Sept 19, 1941, Germans could not seal off city their Hunger
plan and starving technique were not as effective as Soviet
Leningrad was deliberately starved but still managed to function inside the city,
Hitler wanted to kill Soviet people and both leaders could not believe theyr soldiers
would retreat.
Germans purposely starved Soviet POWs
As hunger plan fails, Goring orders soldiers to fend for themselves which further
complicates the starvation and mass killings
In Kiev September 1941 Wehrmachts army group south took Kiev on the 19 th,
German high command agreed a mass killing of jews was necessary of the bombing
of German offices on the 24th
German propaganda put up posters that Kiev jews were going to be resettled, and
on the 29th most showed up to a checkpoint
Dina Pronicheva woman of thirty walked ahead to hear gunshots and learn of the
actually fate of people here, saved by her mother who knew what was happening
you dont look like a Jew she told a German at the checkpoint she was Russia not
a jew. Saw her parents die, later Germans decided to kill her she had seen too much
however she managed to survive by pretending to be dead even as soldiers walked
over her and buried her alive, she managed to escape and became one of few
survivors of the massacre.
People were forced to strip naked, stripped of their valuables and documents; many
beat or raped parents begged to murder their daughters first (so they would not be
raped) or be murdered together, a woman who was breastfeeding jumped after her
baby who was thrown into the ravine, around 33,761 Kiev jews were murdered.
Germans offered incentives to the remaining Jews to turn themselves in. Iza
Belozovskaia another survivor, some lived by the grace of their non-Jewish spouses
or families. Sofia Eizenshtayn was hidden by her husband in a pit he dug he would
visit her every day with his dog and talk to her as if talking to the dog. Germans
officials sent soldiers back to exhume the bodies to destroy evidence of what they
had done
Jews that were caught were sent to cells of Kiev, same ones used in the Great
Terror, when prisons were getting full prisoners were driven away in a covered truck;
they were sent to Babi Yar where they were forced to disrobe, kneel at the edge of
the ravine and wait for the shot.
11 men tried due to Anatoly Kuznetsovs novel , multiple Jewish writers to

commemorate the massacre, Itzik Kipnis published an article on Sept 29, 1944
Peretes Markish published a four part epic called War, containing more than 20,000
lines of poetry
Sovient Communist official when returned in Novemember 1943 disrespected the
human remains interred at Babi Yar, stubbornly refused to state that the victims of
the main massacre perpetrated there had been jews, killed simply cuz they were
jews, they punished and persecuted people who wanted to pay respects to the
dead.
Some jews ignored warnings about Nazi regime and volunteered to stay thinking the
German regime would offer better resources than the Soviet regime, at first
Germans did not do anything, but after an explosion set off (probably by the NKDV)
killing Germans they immediately round up Jews
Believes communism was simply one of many vehicles thorugh which Jews
attempted to rule the world. (Bolshevik activists
Ioanna Ievhenieve a non-Jewish girl saw the murder ofa young woman who refused
to undress and was shot right there and not in the ravine.
Groups of jews and POWs have been said to have continued until October but no
wartime records only witness testimony. 33,771 jews were killed between
September 29 and 30th
Sent back during August 1943 to destroy evidence
Soviet Union denied that the mass killings of Jews and only claimed there was a
massacre of women, men, old and young, children, deny religious or nationality
killings. Believes it stems from Communist ideology, felt Jews did not belong and
anti-Semitic notion that Jews had been and remained alien and hostile and
animosity to Israel. Prevented serious study into Babi Yar
In 1946 when Dina Pronicheva testified Jewishness of the victims was allowed to be
used, and when Anatolii Kuzentsovs novel appeared in 1966 the regime concluded
it was a mistake to allow it to be published and withdrew it from libraries, author
sought political asylum in the UK
The anti-Israli propaganda of the 1970s really distorted Babi Yar, blamed Zionists
forgetting about the massacre, or that Ukrainians Jews were to blame for the
massacre of the Jews themselves
For babi Yar itself, some saught gold on it for years, later it was turned into a
military shooting area
Early April 1945, Soviet announced to build a museum there, in 1950 nothing was
done and funds taken to build a park. They wanted to remove the ravine, decided
to flood it through nearby brick factories
Kurenivka Tragedy mass of heaay dirt built up over years, (13 ft high) due to
flooding that was ignored by Soviet officials
Soviets kept trying to deny Babi Yar, it was finally filled and road built ontop by
1969, citizens of city of Kiev and prisoners of war killed denied its Jewishness
In august 1991 Ukraine became independent and finally recognized the tragedy, but
Babi Yar was turned into part of the city
Soviet censorship, arrest and destruction of the site itself
-By Karel c. Berkhoff BabiYar
Berkhoff Dina Pronichevas story
Chapter 7 Holocaust and Revenge
Stalins response to Hitlers propaganda shaped the history of the Soviet

Union for as long as it existed; all the victims of German killing polices were
Soviet citizens, but the greatest of Soviet nations was the Russians
NKVD were discrete in their killings one or two at night, Germans did mass
executions in the middle of the day
German occupation in Minsk was savage, cranivalesque death march of 7
november 1941, several humilations for scientists (forced to crawl naked)
multiple accounts of Jewish women being raped and murdered
German people had elected a poor Judenrat a Jewish council elite that spoke
and negotiated for the Jews, these Judenrat cooperated fully with the
underground set up by Smolar and Kaziniets
Germans began the final solution and when the Judenrat failed to provide
5000 Jews on 2 March, they killed 3412 people and infiltrated the
underground
Germans executed children by throwing them alive in ditches or using mobile
gas vans
May ran away to a nearby forest where a new partisan was formed
Soviet partisians knew their actions would bring about the destruction of the
surrounding area, if they prevented harvest, Germans would simply burn the
fields, if they blew up a trackline, it almost guaranteed the death of people
near the site if mines were placed Jews, Soviets and other civilians were
forced to walk hand in hand across the field.
Killing jews did nothing but maybe hinder the Red Army or slow the partisans
Main german actinos of mid-1942 and onward, known as Large Operations

were acutually designed to kill Belarusian civilians as well as Belarusian Jews.
AS the Army group south was defeated in the battle of Stalingrad in 1942,
some 12,000 Germans left the service and joined Soviet partisans, mostly
Belarusians some who had killed jews or done recruitment.
Belarus was a society divided against itself by others
Anti-partisan campaings of spring and summer 1943 were of slavery, Slavic
men from the East sent to Germany for forced labour since that was more
meaningful then their deaths, Germans were sent East and East people were
sent to Germany.
Operation Hermann, clearing out surrounding villages in preparation for the
Wehrmacht withdrawal
Bielski and Zorins units were the largest Jewish partisan formations in Europe
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A swift victory against the Soviet union,

11 men tried due to Anatoly Kuznetsovs novel , multiple Jewish writers to

Chapter 7 Holocaust and Revenge

Stalins response to Hitlers propaganda shaped the history of the Soviet

Main german actinos of mid-1942 and onward, known as Large Operations

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