Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
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After 778 days the nightmare is over...!
On November 6, 1943, after the Battle of the Dnieper (today: Dnipro), victorious troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army under General Nikolai Vatutin...
... free after hard fighting the Ukrainian capital Kiev (today: Kyiv, free Ukraine)!
For 778 days the "mother of all Russian cities", as Kiev is called by honor, was occupied by the Hitler Wehrmacht...:
Since the German conquest on September 19, 1941, 120,000 to 160,000 Soviet prisoners of war and civilians (mainly Jews) have been murdered in Kyiv by the occupying forces...:
More than 33,000 Jews fell victim to the massacre in Babi Yar near Kyiv on September 29 and 30, 1941 alone.
In 1942, the Syrets concentration camp was built on the northern outskirts of the city...
... in which countless other people were murdered by the Germans...:
However, we know from German files that 327 inmates of this death camp were also forced by the Germans to erase the traces of the Babi Yar massacre - before they were murdered themselves.
During the combat operations of 1941, a day-long major fire caused by Soviet time fuse mines from September 24, 1941...
...and the recapture by the Red Army, Kyiv became one of the most beautiful old cities in the Soviet Union...
...almost completely destroyed...:
Nevertheless, people are happy about this November 6, 1943 - the Germans have been driven away!
And many German prisoners of war...
... must have to help rebuild Kiev.
On November 6, 1943, after the Battle of the Dnieper (today: Dnipro), victorious troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army under General Nikolai Vatutin...
... free after hard fighting the Ukrainian capital Kiev (today: Kyiv, free Ukraine)!
For 778 days the "mother of all Russian cities", as Kiev is called by honor, was occupied by the Hitler Wehrmacht...:
Since the German conquest on September 19, 1941, 120,000 to 160,000 Soviet prisoners of war and civilians (mainly Jews) have been murdered in Kyiv by the occupying forces...:
More than 33,000 Jews fell victim to the massacre in Babi Yar near Kyiv on September 29 and 30, 1941 alone.
In 1942, the Syrets concentration camp was built on the northern outskirts of the city...
... in which countless other people were murdered by the Germans...:
However, we know from German files that 327 inmates of this death camp were also forced by the Germans to erase the traces of the Babi Yar massacre - before they were murdered themselves.
During the combat operations of 1941, a day-long major fire caused by Soviet time fuse mines from September 24, 1941...
...and the recapture by the Red Army, Kyiv became one of the most beautiful old cities in the Soviet Union...
...almost completely destroyed...:
Nevertheless, people are happy about this November 6, 1943 - the Germans have been driven away!
And many German prisoners of war...
... must have to help rebuild Kiev.
