Outside of Kiev, there is a ravine named Babyn Yar. For most of it’s existence, it was nothing more than an unremarkable hole in the ground. That all changed on September 29, 1941 when Ukrainian collaborators working alongside the Nazi Einsatzgruppe C under the command of Otto Rasch carried out one of the most savage massacres of the war.
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