This photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting a Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, sometime between 1941 and 1943

This photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting a Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, sometime between 1941 and 1943. This image is titled "The last Jew in Vinnitsa", the text that was written on the back of the photograph, which was found in a photo album belonging to a German soldier. 

The Vinnytsia massacre was a mass execution of (mostly ethnic Ukrainian) people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge in 1937–1938. Mass graves in Vinnytsia were discovered during the German occupation of Ukraine in 1943.

The investigation of the site first conducted by the international Katyn Commission coincided with the discovery of a similar mass murder site of Polish prisoners of war in Katyn. Because the Germans utilized this evidence of Communist terror to discredit the Soviet Union internationally, it became one of the better researched sites of the politically motivated NKVD massacres among many in Ukraine.

Much as in the case of other massacres of people considered enemies of the people by the communist regime of Russia, the victims buried at Vinnytsia were mostly murdered in the local NKVD prison. The executions were clandestine; the families were not informed of their relatives’ fate. In rare cases the Soviet authorities claimed that the missing people had died of natural causes, had been sentenced to the Gulag in the Far North, or had been transferred to prisons in other parts of the Soviet Union.

Personal belongings, documents and trial documentation were not preserved and instead were buried in a separate pit not far from the mass graves.

The first examinations of the exhumed bodies were made by German, Ukrainian, and Russian doctors such as professor Gerhard Schrader of the University of Halle-Wittenberg, docent Doroshenko of Vinnytsia, and professor Malinin of Krasnodar, respectively.

The excavations started in May 1943 at three different locations: the fruit orchard in the west, the central cemetery, and the People’s Park. Most of the bodies were found in the fruit orchard (5,644 bodies). Altogether, 91 mass graves were discovered at the three different locations, and 9,432 bodies were exhumed; 149 of them were women. The excavations at the People’s Park were not finished, though many more bodies were thought to be buried there.[3]

After a preliminary investigation conducted by Professor Schrader’s team, two teams of medical examiners were invited — one international and the other made up of 13 experts from different universities in Nazi Germany. An international commission of experts in anatomy and forensic pathology was invited from eleven countries in Europe. The experts were the following 

Dr. Soenen, Ghent University, Belgium.

Dr. Michailov, Sofia University, Bulgaria.

Dr. Niilo Pesonen (fi), University of Helsinki, Finland.

Dr. Duvoir, University of Paris, France.

Dr. Cazzaniga, University of Milan, Italy.

Dr. Ljudevit Jurak, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Dr. ter Poorten, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dr. Birkle, Bucharest, Romania.

Dr. Gösta Häggqvist (sv), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Krsek, University of Bratislava, Slovakia.

Dr. Ferenc Orsós, University of Budapest, Hungary.

The international commission visited the mass graves between July 13 and July 15, 1943. The German commission completed its report on July 29, 1943. Both commissions determined that almost all of the victims were executed by two shots in the back of the head between 1937–1938. 

Four-hundred sixty-eight bodies were identified by people of Vinnytsia and the surroundings; the other 202 were identified on the basis of documents and evidence found in the graves. Most were identified as Ukrainians, but there were also 28 ethnic Poles.[6]

Whether you believe the experts or not, Germany committed no massacre in which the picture claims. Beyond all doubt, the image is either false, or the documentation alongside the picture is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnytsia_massacre

Vwegba World Blog, bring you serial killer story, serial killers facts, murder, true crime, true crimecommunity, horror, truecrime addict, crime , tedbundy , homicide ,halloween, killer, rodneyalcala, murder on my mind, ,history ,netflixandchill ,deadlymen ,crimewatchdaily ,murderisthenewblack ,historic ,fearthyneighbor ,netflixandcrime ,crime memes ,dark ,murderer ,horrormovies ,insane ,history and many. Feel free to share and comment. Share your thought