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HISTORY
ukraine: holocaust ground zero
Just before midnight on the 22nd June 1941, Hitler launched Operation
Barbarossa - his attack, along an 1800 mile front, on the Soviet Union. With over
three and a half million German and allied troops, it was the largest invasion
force the world had ever seen.
It was nine months before the Nazis’ deportation of Jews to Auschwitz would get
underway. But for the Jews in the Soviet Union, not least Ukraine, the Holocaust
was about to begin. In the following three years Ukraine suffered some of the
most horrific acts of genocide perpetrated during the Second World War. At one Definition Episodes
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site alone – Babyn Yar, on the outskirts of Kyiv – almost 34,000 Jews were shot by Producer YOP
the Nazis over one weekend in September 1941. One month earlier 23,600 Jews A DoubleBand Films 2023
were massacred at the Ukrainian town of Kamianets- Podilskyi. These atrocities in production for Channel 4
Ukraine were among the Nazis’ first acts of mass murder, in pursuit of the Final
Solution. They also led to little-known war crimes trials in the Soviet Union,
including in...
