Image:Einsatzgruppen Killing.jpg

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German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a member of Einsatzgruppe D murders a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942. The photograph was found in a German soldier's personal photo album.[1]

The back of the photo is inscribed "The last Jew in Vinnista".

Image source: USHMM

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current00:30, 7 June 2008237×350 (26 KB)Melesse (Talk | contribs) (fair use reduce)
04:34, 28 May 20081,053×1,536 (661 KB)Thisglad (Talk | contribs) (less cropped version)
18:55, 30 November 2006922×1,346 (310 KB)Kane5187 (Talk | contribs) (Larger version from [http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wwii/baltic_nazis/latvia/images/index%20-%200071-1.jpg here] ([http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wwii/baltic_nazis/latvia/contact.htm from here]); bigger version presumably still in public domain.)
11:55, 26 January 2005251×370 (15 KB)Lupo (Talk | contribs) (A member of ''Einsatzgruppe D'' executes a Jew kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942. Image from [http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/mass/photo3.htm], also shown at [http://www.ushmm.org/uia-cgi/uia_doc/photo)