After the Nazi occupation, the Ukrainian lands were to be turned into a raw material appendage, and the population was to be evicted and partially liquidated. The occupation provided for the division of the territories into several parts. Most of the lands from Southern Belarus to Zaporizhzhia were included in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine with the center in the city of Rivne.
One of the symbols of the Holocaust in Ukraine has become Babyn Yar in Kyiv, a place of memory and necropolis of about 100,000 people shot by the Nazis in 1941–1943. Among them are Jews, Roma, Red Army soldiers, communists, underground members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, prisoners of the Syretsk concentration camp, “saboteurs”, curfew violators and even patients of the I. P. Pavlov psychiatric hospital.
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