The Kindly Ones is a 2006 historical fiction novel written in French by American-born author Jonathan Littell. The book is narrated by its fictional protagonist Maximilien Aue, a former SS officer of
A photograph of Einsatzgruppen members executing Ukrainian Jews in 1942
A German Army soldier during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942
Prisoners at work at the Auschwitz III forced labor camp in Nazi occupied Poland
A street of Berlin in 1945
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
The Kindly Ones (Littell novel)
…the region's Mountain Jews). Aue's group is attached to the 6th Army in Ukraine, where he witnesses the Lviv pogroms and participates in the enormous massacre at Babi Yar. He describes in detail the killing of Soviet Jews, Communists, alleged partisans and other victims of the "special operations". Although he seems to…
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