Babi Yar
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Babi Yar or Babyn Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and
Soviet POWs being used by Germany to cover the mass grave after the massacre, 1 October 1941
Notice dated 28 September 1941 in Russian, Ukrainian with German translation ordering all Kyivan Jews to assemble for supposed resettlement
Luftwaffe aerial photograph of Babi Yar, 1943
A barbed wire fence of the Syrets concentration camp
Paul Blobel
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Paul Wilhelm Hermann Blobel was a German Sicherheitsdienst commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust. He organised the Babi Yar massacre, the largest massacre of
Babi Yar
…South. There, they decided to exterminate the Jews of Kyiv, claiming that it was retaliation for the explosions. Also present were SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel, commander of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C, and his superior, SS-Brigadeführer Dr. Otto Rasch, commander of Einsatzgruppe C. The mass murder…
Blobel in 1947
Early war-time ID issued to Paul Blobel by the "Volkswohlfahrt", Nazi Germany's welfare organization
Blobel in SS uniform
Blobel is sentenced to death at the Einsatzgruppen trial, 10 April 1948.