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The Babbi Yar Ravine

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During the reign of the third riech the Nazi party committed many atrocities. Today the main ones focused on in school curriculum are the concentration camps and the ghettos. But during the war in Russia the Germans faced a logistical nightmare of moving the Russian Jews to the camps back in Prussia or Germany. The solution to this was the Babi Yar ravine. In 1941, the Germans launched a The Babi Yar was ravine in Keiv Ukraine was the site of over 100,000 and quite possibly 200,000 Jewish Russians that were captured following the invasion. On 26 September 1941 the German 637th propaganda company issued an announcement in Kiev, ordering the Jews to report within the next three days at Lukianovska, Degtiarska, Lagerna, and Melnikova Streets.

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