Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union

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Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union were mass executions of Jews and other targeted groups by Nazi German forces and collaborators, primarily carried out by mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) across occupied Soviet territories during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime against humanity
mass murder campaign
war crime
alsoKnownAs Holocaust by bullets
Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
surface form: Holocaust mass shootings in the East
carriedOutByUnitType Einsatzgruppen
surface form: Einsatzgruppen A

Einsatzgruppen
surface form: Einsatzgruppen B

Einsatzgruppen
surface form: Einsatzgruppen C

Einsatzgruppen
surface form: Einsatzgruppen D

mobile killing units
coordinatedWith German civil administration
German military authorities
documentedIn Einsatzgruppen reports
Nuremberg Trials evidence
Soviet postwar investigations
endTime 1944
estimatedVictims hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish civilians
over 1,000,000 Jews
executionSiteType anti-tank ditches
forests
pits
ravines
historicalPeriod World War II
location Baltic states
Belarus
Crimea
Moldova
Russia
Ukraine
occupied Eastern Poland
occupied Soviet Union
methodOfKilling firing squads
machine-gun executions
mass shootings
motivatedBy Nazi racial ideology
antisemitism
notableMassacreSite Babi Yar
Kamenets-Podolsk
Minsk ghetto killing sites
Ponary massacre site
surface form: Ponary

Rumbula forest
partOf Final Solution
Holocaust
perpetratedBy Einsatzgruppen
Nazi Germany
Order Police battalions
Wehrmacht
surface form: Wehrmacht units

auxiliary police units
local collaborators
precededBy Operation Barbarossa
surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
startTime 1941-06
targetedGroup Jews
Roma
Soviet partisans
Red Army political commissars
surface form: Soviet political commissars

local civilians suspected of resistance
people with disabilities

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Rumbula massacre category Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
Right-bank Ukraine wasSceneOf Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust in Ukraine
Order Police battalions roleIn Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust in Eastern Europe
Reichskommissariat Ukraine hasPolicy Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust in Ukraine
Arthur Nebe participatedIn Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust in the Soviet Union
German occupation of parts of the Soviet Union hasEffect Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Reichenau Order linkedTo Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Reichenau Severity Order linkedTo Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union alsoKnownAs Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust mass shootings in the East
World War II atrocities includesEvent Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Massacres in the Soviet Union
World War II atrocities includesEvent Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Massacres of Jews by Einsatzgruppen
Sonderkommando 4a historicalContext Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Holocaust in the occupied Soviet Union