1941, Kiev, German Troops invade Ukrainian Capital, Soviet POW, Überfall auf Sowjetunion, Archive

This time travel takes us to World War II, to the Eastern Front, from a German perspective, a soldier of an infantry division films the taking of the Ukrainian capital Kiev on September 18, 1941. This exclusive footage is of special historical value. The footage not only documents an important event in the first phase in the war of aggression against the Soviet Union. The footage was taken nine days before killing squadrons of the Security Police and the SD carried out the largest single massacre of Jews in World War II in Babyn Jahr, a valley on the territory of the city of Kiev. On September 29 and 30, 1941, 33,000 Jewish men, women and children were murdered. It is likely that some of the victims can be seen on this film footage. During this phase of the war of extermination against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, mobile SS troops were still killing Jews with firearms. Factory mass murder by gas only began from the beginning of 1942. #history #ww2 #holocaust .........................