September 29th is the 72nd anniversary of the Bibi Yar massacre. It was committed by members of the SS Einsatzgruppen C near Kieve shortly after the German Army captured that city. 33,771 Jews were exterminated by the members of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppen C. as well as Police battalions. About 10,000 others, mainly Communist Officials and Gypsies were rounded up and killed in the same operation. The victims were stripped of all of their belongings taken to a ravine and shot. It was the second largest killing action by Einsatzgruppen in the war. It was committed by men who either believed that the people that they were killing were sub-human, or did not have the courage to stand up and say no. I have re-posted this article now because I want people to know how supposedly civilized people can get to the point of committing crimes like this. It really doesn’t take much, just teach people from childhood that people of certain races or religions are less than human. Subjugate them to incessant propaganda and then turn them loose using under the pretext of killing terrorists or insurgents.
The article deals with the ideological as well as military reasons that brought about Babi Yar and so many other atrocities committed by the Nazis.
Peace,
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Introduction
Einsatzgruppen Massacre sites (www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
The German war against the Soviet Union was the first truly race-based ideological war in history with the campaign against Poland its precursor. Adolf Hitler’s racial theories and beliefs played a dominant role in Germany’s conduct of the war in the East in both the military campaign and occupation. This has become clearer in recent years as historians have had the opportunity to examine Hitler’s writings, those of senior Nazi officials and military officers and documents which had been unavailable until the end of the Cold War. Understanding the Nazi ideological basis and the underlying cultural prejudice against the Jews and eastern Europeans in general is foundational to understanding Hitler’s conduct of the war and why the destruction of the Jews figured so highly in his calculations. One must also understand the military and police cultures and doctrines that enabled them to cooperate so closely…
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Remember the movie or musical “South Pacific”? There’s a great song in there that states that children “have to be carefully taught” to hate. And thank you for mentioning the other victims of the Nazis’ hatred. I get so frustrated when people only talk about the Jewish casualties!
Thank you for the mention of “other victims of Nazi hatred”, John Erickson, Communists , Gypsies ,Anti Nazi Germans, Resistance fighters, Jehovah’s Witnesses , Freemasons , and many non com civilians of the world , and so many others were persecuted , but mostly “The Holocaust” is associated with Jewish only suffering and the millions of other civilians that were killed either in concentration camps or bombing raids etc etc that were non – jewish seems in the eyes of the media to be perhaps not as important somehow perhaps bypassing the need to mention that ALL suffered Jew + NON Jew alike .