An SS guard speaks with local Ukrainian women while Soviet POWs perform forced labor nearby
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An SS guard speaks with local Ukrainian women while Soviet POWs perform forced labor nearby

An SS guard speaks with local Ukrainian women while Soviet prisoners of war carry out forced labor. A German Propaganda Company photographer took this image shortly after the SS murdered over 33,000 Jews on September 29-30,1941 at the nearby Babyn Yar killing site. Kyiv (Kiev), German-occupied Soviet Union, after September 30, 1941.

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