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The Germans
occupied the city on June 30. Members of Einsatzgruppe C, German
soldiers, and Ukrainian nationalists and rabble began to murder Jews
that very day. The Germans and the Ukrainians spread rumors
implicating the Jews in killing Ukrainian political prisoners whose
bodies had been found in the cellars of the Soviet political police
station. In the four days of rioting that ensued, the Ukrainian
rabble ran wild—assaulting, abusing, torturing, and murdering
Jews, and raping Jewish women as German soldiers took pictures. By
July 3, 1941, 4,000 Jews had been murdered. |
