Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
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Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union were mass executions of Jews and other targeted groups by Nazi German forces and collaborators, primarily carried out by mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) across occupied Soviet territories during World War II.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union Context triple: [Rumbula massacre, category, Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union]
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A.
Babi Yar massacre
The Babi Yar massacre was a mass killing of tens of thousands of Jews and other civilians by Nazi forces near Kyiv in 1941, becoming one of the most infamous atrocities of the Holocaust.
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Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre was a World War II mass execution of thousands of Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940.
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C.
Birkenau cycle
The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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D.
Auschwitz death marches
The Auschwitz death marches were forced evacuations in early 1945 during which SS guards brutally drove tens of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners westward in harsh winter conditions, causing the deaths of many through exhaustion, exposure, and execution.
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E.
Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union Target entity description: Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union were mass executions of Jews and other targeted groups by Nazi German forces and collaborators, primarily carried out by mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) across occupied Soviet territories during World War II.
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A.
Babi Yar massacre
The Babi Yar massacre was a mass killing of tens of thousands of Jews and other civilians by Nazi forces near Kyiv in 1941, becoming one of the most infamous atrocities of the Holocaust.
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B.
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre was a World War II mass execution of thousands of Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940.
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C.
Birkenau cycle
The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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D.
Auschwitz death marches
The Auschwitz death marches were forced evacuations in early 1945 during which SS guards brutally drove tens of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners westward in harsh winter conditions, causing the deaths of many through exhaustion, exposure, and execution.
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E.
Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime against humanity
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mass murder campaign ⓘ war crime ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Holocaust by bullets
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Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form:
Holocaust mass shootings in the East
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| carriedOutByUnitType |
Einsatzgruppen
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surface form:
Einsatzgruppen A
Einsatzgruppen ⓘ
surface form:
Einsatzgruppen B
Einsatzgruppen ⓘ
surface form:
Einsatzgruppen C
Einsatzgruppen ⓘ
surface form:
Einsatzgruppen D
mobile killing units ⓘ |
| coordinatedWith |
German civil administration
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German military authorities ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Einsatzgruppen reports
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Nuremberg Trials evidence ⓘ Soviet postwar investigations ⓘ |
| endTime | 1944 ⓘ |
| estimatedVictims |
hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish civilians
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over 1,000,000 Jews ⓘ |
| executionSiteType |
anti-tank ditches
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forests ⓘ pits ⓘ ravines ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| location |
Baltic states
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Belarus ⓘ Crimea ⓘ Moldova ⓘ Russia ⓘ Ukraine ⓘ occupied Eastern Poland ⓘ occupied Soviet Union ⓘ |
| methodOfKilling |
firing squads
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machine-gun executions ⓘ mass shootings ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
Nazi racial ideology
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antisemitism ⓘ |
| notableMassacreSite |
Babi Yar
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Kamenets-Podolsk ⓘ Minsk ghetto killing sites ⓘ Ponary massacre site ⓘ
surface form:
Ponary
Rumbula forest ⓘ |
| partOf |
Final Solution
ⓘ
Holocaust ⓘ |
| perpetratedBy |
Einsatzgruppen
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ Order Police battalions ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ
surface form:
Wehrmacht units
auxiliary police units ⓘ local collaborators ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Operation Barbarossa
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surface form:
German invasion of the Soviet Union
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| startTime | 1941-06 ⓘ |
| targetedGroup |
Jews
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Roma ⓘ Soviet partisans ⓘ Red Army political commissars ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet political commissars
local civilians suspected of resistance ⓘ people with disabilities ⓘ |
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Subject: Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union Description of subject: Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union were mass executions of Jews and other targeted groups by Nazi German forces and collaborators, primarily carried out by mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) across occupied Soviet territories during World War II.
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Holocaust in Eastern Europe
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Holocaust in Ukraine
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Holocaust in the Soviet Union
German occupation of parts of the Soviet Union
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Holocaust in the Soviet Union
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Holocaust in the Soviet Union
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Holocaust in the Soviet Union
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Holocaust mass shootings in the East
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Massacres in the Soviet Union
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Massacres of Jews by Einsatzgruppen
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Holocaust in the occupied Soviet Union