Following the German occupation of Kyiv, a series of explosions set off by Soviet NKVD agents destroyed German-occupied buildings.
The German military command used these explosions as a pretext to "liquidate" the Jewish population of Kyiv. Babi Yar. Context
The film includes footage from the trial of 15 Nazis and collaborators, which helped bring the details of the massacre to light. Following the German occupation of Kyiv, a series
Anatoly Kuznetsov’s 1966 documentary novel Babi Yar was a landmark effort to break this silence, despite heavy Soviet censorship. Following the German occupation of Kyiv
On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads).