{"id":25803,"date":"2015-08-26T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=25803"},"modified":"2015-08-26T07:11:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T05:11:48","slug":"25803","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=25803","title":{"rendered":"The secrets of Ukraine’s shameful ‘Holocaust of Bullets’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The secrets of Ukraine’s shameful ‘Holocaust of Bullets’<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

By Will Stewart<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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‘Blood oozed through the soil at grave sites. You could see the pits move, some of them were still alive’: The secrets of Ukraine’s shameful ‘Holocaust of Bullets’ killing centre where 1.6million Jews were executed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT<\/strong><\/span>
\nJews were humiliated and murdered one by one in Ukraine during WW2<\/strong><\/span>
\n Many of them were forced to stand in front of mass graves and shot dead<\/strong><\/span>
\n Women were stripped naked, beaten in the streets during ‘organised riots’<\/strong><\/span>
\n Witnesses today have broken their silence to tell of Ukraine’s killing centre<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Seventy years on from the end of the Second World War the full, shocking scale of the Nazi-inspired Holocaust in Ukraine is finally being revealed – thanks to pioneering work by a French Catholic priest to research the truth of the industrial-scale killing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around 2,000 mass graves of Jewish victims have been located where men, women and children were shot and buried by the Germans and their collaborators.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there maybe up to 6,000 more sites to uncover, with victims of this ‘Holocaust of bullets’ – so called because unlike in Poland and Germany where gas chambers were used as the means of slaughter – here most were summarily shot and buried nearby.<\/span><\/p>\n

In many cases, the Jews were ordered to dig pits and then to strip naked before they were mown down by their murderers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some were buried in the unmarked plots while still alive.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Genocide:<\/p>\n

Genocide: Between 1.4million and 1.6million Jewish people were killed in Ukraine during the second World War and buried in mass graves like this one in Kamianets-Podilskyi
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\"Cruelty:<\/p>\n

Cruelty: The Nazis mowed people down in a ‘Holocaust of Bullets’ and also subjected Jews to horrendous public humiliation by forcing them to strip in the streets (pictured) before beating them<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Violence:<\/p>\n

Violence: A Jewish man is kicked to the ground during a pogrom in the Ukrainian city of Lviv in 1941<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Unthinkable:<\/p>\n

Unthinkable: Witnesses have told of how the Nazis killed Ukrainian Jews (pictured) ‘for fun’, ‘out of anger, boredom, drunkenness’, or ‘to rape the girls’<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Blood oozed through the soil at sites of these graves, according to accounts assiduously collected by French Catholic priest, Father Patrick Desbois, who began his search by seeking to trace his grandfather’s experience as a prisoner of war held in a concentration camp by the Nazis in Ukraine during the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n

He uncovered accounts of how Jews were killed by the Nazis ‘for fun’, or ‘out of anger, boredom, drunkenness’, or ‘to rape the girls’.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the Soviet Union, for its own motives, obscured the full scale of the Holocaust on its own territory.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leading historian Mikhail Tyaglyy told MailOnline the number of Jewish victims in Ukraine is between 1.4million and 1.6million, significantly higher than the oft-quoted figure of around one million.<\/span><\/p>\n

The priest’s search took him to four sites around Rava Ruska, close to the Ukrainian border with Poland, where 15,000 Jews were slain, and also the site of a Nazi camp where his grandfather Claudius Desbois had been held as a prisoner of war.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gradually, elderly locals who had kept quiet all their lives – mainly under Soviet rule – opened up to him, as hundreds more did in many other villages and towns in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

One account from Rava Ruska was of a Nazi officer who spotted a young Jewish woman running out of the ghetto to buy butter at the market. He ordered her to be stripped naked, and demanded the trader smear her with the butter after which he decreed her beaten to death with sticks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: ‘Blood oozed through the soil..’<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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