Exercises on the Babi Yar Massacre

The extermination of the Kiev Jews, which took place on September 29 and 30, 1941, was ordered by the Nazis in reprisal:

a) to attacks by Partisans hiding in the forests of Belarus.

b) the bomb attacks on buildings used by the Nazis in Kiev.

c) the defeat that the Nazis had suffered on the banks of the Volga River in the city of Stalingrad.

d) the failure of the invasion of the city of Leningrad, skillfully defended by Zhukov.

e) the reluctance of Kievan Jews to wear the Star of David embroidered on their clothes.

The Babi Yar Massacre was carried out by forces that made up the Nazi army and that were assigned or that had been reassigned to deal with the extermination of Jews in Eastern Europe. Select below the group that did NOT participate in this massacre.

a) Local collaborationists, who made up the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.

b) Members of Heer, the infantry corps of the Wehrmacht .

c) Schutzstaffel , better known as SS.

d) Kriegsmarine , the German navy.

e) Einsatzgruppen , the killgroups.

The conquest of the city of Kiev was carried out by Army Group South, with the help of Army Group Center, between August and September 1941. within the German strategy that was part of:

a) Operation Citadel

b) Himmler Operation

c) Barbarossa Operation

d) Final Solution

e) Anschluss

The conquest of Kiev, like that of many other regions belonging to the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, was part of a territorial expansion plan led by Hitler, known as:

a) Lebensraum

b) Anschluss

c) Generalplan Ost

d) Madagaskarplan

e) Hungerplan

Letter B

The so-called Babi Yar Massacre was carried out by the Nazis in reprisal for a bomb attack carried out on buildings used by the German administration in Kiev. This attack caused the death of some Germans, and the Nazis blamed the Jews for this incident which, in fact, had been carried out by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.

Letter D

The Babi Yar Massacre, like many other massacres committed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe, was spearheaded by the Einsatzgruppen death squads. . In Kiev, something common at that time also happened, which was the participation of other combat forces in the massacre of the Jews. The groups that acted in this episode were the local collaborators of the Auxiliary Police of Ukraine, in addition to the SS and soldiers of the infantry corps of the Wehrmacht . There was no action by members of the navy, the Kriegsmarine .

Letter C

The conquest of Kiev was part of the plan to invade the Soviet Union, also known as Operation Barbarossa, which began in June 1941. This operation coordinated the occupation of the Soviet Union with a view to destruction of Bolshevism, the creation of “living space” and the seizure of mineral resources from the Soviet Union. This achievement was also important for securing access to Ukraine's grain production.

Letter A

The German conquest of Eastern Europe was part of Hitler's idea of ​​"living space", known as Lebensraum . This idea consisted of forming the German Third Reich with the lands of this region, even those historically not inhabited by Germanic peoples. The intention of this project was to colonize this territory through the migration of the Germanic population and the enslavement of the Slavs.