DZ Season 032 Part 01 . The First Day of the Holocaust. Gentile Wife - Not Really into Jewish Mother-in-Law. Leave Her in Nazi Occupied City.

Everything has to start somewhere. This programme’s about the first day of the holocaust. Not the efficient extermination camps like Auschwitz. But men working hard days organising the digging of deep pits (just the right length), ammunition (you don’t want to run out half way through), organising Jews to the site and then shooting them all day long (you need plenty of Schnapps for the men) until there were none left. Standartenführer (Colonel) Paul Blobel was the right man for the job. In September 1941, they nailed it at the Ukrainian town of Berdichev. But first you need me to tell you how everything came together for this perfect storm. The son of one of the elderly women murdered that day would become the greatest Russian writer of the 20th Century. She died there because of his failings. He carried it with him to the day he died but he shared it with the world the way no-one else ould have. This is the story of that one fine autumn day. Tag words: Standartenführer (Colonel) Paul Blobel; the Final Solution; Berdichev; Vasily Grossman; Communist; Jew; Yekaterina Grossman; Yekaterina Savelievna; Russian Revolution; Trotsky; Stalin; Olga Mikhailovna; Boris Gruber; George Bernard Shaw; Writers’ Union; Great Terror; NKVD; KGB; Kulak; Adolf Hitler; Operation Barbarossa; Who Dares Wins; SS; Adolf Eichmann; 11th Panzer Division;