Following the German occupation of Kyiv, a series of explosions set off by Soviet NKVD agents destroyed German-occupied buildings.
The "context" of Loznitsa’s title also refers to how the event was handled after the war ended. Babi Yar. Context
For decades, the Soviet government suppressed the specifically Jewish nature of the victims, referring to them only as "peaceful Soviet citizens." Following the German occupation of Kyiv, a series
The documentary situates the massacre within the broader invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). Following the German occupation of Kyiv
The German military command used these explosions as a pretext to "liquidate" the Jewish population of Kyiv.
On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads).