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1 The Reichskommissariat Ukraine at its largest. xvi 2 Local residents greet a German soldier on a tank. Kremenchuk, eastern Ukraine, September 1941. 22 3 One result of Stalin’s scorched-earth policy—the burned-out center of Kiev, probably on October 5, 1941. 31 4 Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi party chancellery, Adolf Hitler, and one of the Führer’s aides listen to Erich Koch, Reichskommissar for Ukraine, at the Werewolf headquarters north of Vinnytsia. Central Ukraine, summer 1942. 38 5 Office of a district commissar. Oleksandriia, southern Ukraine, 1942. 40 6 Open mass grave with thousands of Jews. Podolian town of Proskuriv (today Khmelnytsky), 1941 or 1942. 63 7 Jews from Lubny, a town in the Left Bank, and surroundings, who have obeyed an order to assemble. Lubny region, October 16, 1941. 79 8 Imprisoned Red Army men unload ammunition at a storage site. Some of their non-German supervisors carry batons. Berdychiv, central Ukraine, August 28, 1941. 104 9 “The Collective Farm System Has Come to an End!” Nazi propaganda poster, February 1942. 121 10 A farm leader and his secretary doing bookkeeping in their office. Pereiaslav, central Ukraine, August 1943. 128 11 Public hanging, witnessed by local adults, children, and German soldiers. Kiev, probably late 1941 or early 1942. 148 FIGURES

12 The Galician Market (formerly the Jewish Market) in Kiev, September 1942. 175 13 At the height of the Nazi campaign to starve Kiev, an auxiliary policeman armed with a rifle stops women who wish to go there. Summer 1942. 178 14 Public meeting to mark the second anniversary of the “liberation” of the town of Vasylkiv, west of Kiev. August 20, 1943. 189 15 “The Wall Has Come Down.” Nazi propaganda poster. Probably printed in 1941. 214 16 Boys of pacifist Mennonite origin, now “ethnic Germans,” have donned swastika brassards and parade past SS leader Heinrich Himmler and other high-ranking visitors. Halbstadt district near Zaporizhzhia, Sunday morning, November 1, 1942. 227 17 A festive procession with church items that people had hidden for years from the Soviet authorities. Mykolaïv, southern Ukraine, October 1941. 240 18 Young men and women who have been forced to leave their villages to work in Germany carry heavy luggage as they walk toward an assembly point. Nekrasov Street, Kiev, 1942. 264 19 Tymofii Strokach, deputy chief of the Soviet Ukrainian NKVD, and Demian Korotchenko, a Communist party secretary, inspect some of Sydir Kovpak’s partisans on the eve of their daring raid toward the Carpathian Mountains. Partisan zone in the Zhytomyr region in northern Ukraine, June 1943. 277 20 The effects of the Nazi scorched-earth policy. North of Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, August or September 1943. 301 21 Women and a child give a warm and spontaneous welcome to the Red Army. Melitopol, southern Ukraine, October 1943. 303 22 A woman looks for her husband’s body among exhumed corpses in the former Nazi concentration camp Syrets. Kiev, 1944. 307

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