![]() No doubt there were the righteous among them-those who hid the Jews in their houses, who helped them survive. This is why it is necessary to reflect upon this whole situation. I study dehumanization, the loss of humanity by a human being. I have every reason to believe that back in September 1941, many residents of Kiev had suspected that Jews were going to be killed and not “relocated to the South.” But no one protested. Without control and pressure from the authorities, in an atmosphere of chaos, it seems that anything is allowed, any action can go unpunished. It is during this moment when the true nature of a human is revealed. Flash forward to the photos of genocide against the people of Syria on “Sixty Minutes.” Initially.ĭirector Loznitsa has a much grimmer take on what happened at Babi Yar: “I study dehumanization, the loss of humanity by a human being…There was a regime change and, prior to that, a short period of chaos, of lawlessness. ![]() “Man’s inhumanity to man” is the phrase that reoccurs, again and again. If you were a curious resident of the town who wandered out to see what was going on, that might be your death sentence, as the public notices to show up were made in such a way that none imagined the barbarity of the actions taking place. The Germans rounded up the Jews via official posted announcements ( they were told to bring their valuables and food and warm clothing) and gather on the edges of a ravine in Northwest Kiev known as Babi Yar (“Grandmother’s ravine”) and then the Germans and some Ukrainian soldiers who had gone over to the Nazi side systematically executed men, women and children. What they did do with them was cold-blooded execution, killing 33,771 (although estimates up to 100,000 are mentioned by those interviewed). At one point, one of the Nazi soldiers doing the counting says to another, “What are we going to do with them?” ![]() The men seated peacefully on the ground are being counted off and loaded into a truck. It is the first attempt to wipe out the entire Jewish population of a large city: extermination by bullet. The Nazis decide to eliminate the city’s Jews, driven by the Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy falsehood at the heart of Nazi ideolog. Explosions planted by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, are destroying Kiev. Ominously, there is footage of a large group of men, seated peacefully on the ground. There were civilian casualties and thousands were left homeless.” The detonations of the explosives were carried out a few days after the Germans took the city. Kiev’s central street was mined with remote-controlled explosives by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Service) before the Red army had retreated from Kiev. One such episode is the explosions of Kreschatik in September, 1941. Said Director Sergei Loznitsa, “Some of the footage I work with has been buried in the archives for decades – nobody has ever seen it, not even historians specializing in the Holocaust in the USSR. Throughout, one is struck by the devastation being wrought. ![]() The 1941 film is black-and-white, although there are a few color pieces of vintage film. It is 1941 the opening scene is of black smoke billowing over the countryside while firing on a bridge continues. Director Sergei Loznitsa (“State Funeral,” “Donbass,” “Maidan”) has compiled a staggering amount of vintage 80-year-old footage of World War II action in Kiev and Lemberg (Lvov)in the “Babi Yar.
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