DZ Season 32 Part 02. The First Day of the Holocaust. Devlishly Effective Policies for the Handling of the Jewish Problem.

How to quickly and efficiently kill the 30,000 Jews at Berdichev was the problem that had to be solved. It was important to get it right because, if they could, they could do it on a far bigger scale at the next place where they’d already planned to do a mass extermination of Jews, a place called Babi Yar near Kiev. So how did the SS tackle this first time problem of mass murder? How did the average German soldier respond to the mass killing of Jews – men, women and very young children. The most shocking thing, you could find yourself – on either side - of what happened here. It’s a story that you must hear. Tag words: Babi Yar; 11th Panzer Division; Wehrmacht; Joseph Stalin; Red Army; Nazis; SS; Major Rösler; Field Marshall Walther von Reichenau; Belaya Tserkov; 29th German Infantry Division; Lieutenant Colonel Groscurth; Standartenführer (Colonel) Paul Blöbel; Sonderkommando 4a; Einsatzgruppe C; General von Paulus; Soviet Prisoners of War;