Video: 'The SS and Wehrmacht Murder Inc. - War Against Humanity 017 - August 1941, Part 2' (Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre at 15:19)

(Wednesday, August 27, 1941; during the Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre, part of the Holocaust, part of World War II) — The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre, a World War II mass shooting of Jews carried out in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa (the German invasion of the Soviet Union), began today in the Soviet city of Kamianets-Podilskyi (now southwest Ukraine), occupied by German troops since July 11, 1941. 

According to the Nazi German reports, a total of 23,600 Jews were murdered, including 16,000 who had earlier been expelled from Hungary.

The killings were conducted today and on August 28, 1941, by the German Police Battalion 320, a detachment of Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units), the Hungarian soldiers, and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.

It was one of the first large-scale mass murder operations in pursuit of the Final Solution in Reichskommissariat Ukraine.