🚩 Babi Yar. Context is less about the act of the massacre itself and more about the visual atmosphere of the time—showing the people, the propaganda, and the terrifyingly "normal" environment in which such an atrocity occurred. The Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Composed entirely of restored black-and-white and color footage from German and Soviet archives. Babi Yar. Context
On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads). 🚩 Babi Yar
Anatoly Kuznetsov’s 1966 documentary novel Babi Yar was a landmark effort to break this silence, despite heavy Soviet censorship. On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched
Abstract: After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht occupied much of the western Soviet regions. Gettysburg College