• ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Einsatzgruppen were Nazi mobile death squads. The poster is simply saying that the neighbors of the children hid them away before their parents were caught and executed by the Nazis.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen . They were involved in Babi Yar massacres . " After being marched three kilometres (two miles) northwest of the city centre, the victims encountered a barbed wire barrier and numerous Ukrainian police and German troops" OUN and UPA were definitely involved in these

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        4 months ago

        Ok? That’s not exactly what’s being discussed here. The other commenter thought that the tweet was implying that the Soviet troops were the one’s who executed the children’s parents. I just clarified that the original tweeter said that they were killed by Nazis, not Soviets.