Archive/File: holocaust/ussr/ukraine ukraine.001 Last-Modified: 1994/07/15 "Whereas the Germans did not make many converts among Ukrainians living within the prewar boundaries of the Soviet Union, they did not have to worry that the Ukrainians would aid the Jews. A large number of young Ukrainian men were in the Red Army, or prisoners of war, or evacuated as essential laborers by the retreating Soviet authorities. Damaged cities and disrupted communications had been left behind. A disoriented population, uncertain of its future under German occupation, scrambled for morsels to stay alive. In this disintegration, the Jews were perceived as a different people whose misfortune, deserved or undeserved, was not a Ukrainian concern and still less a Ukrainian responsibility. Already at the end of September 1941, Einsatzgruppe C, which was then operating in northern Ukrainian territory, reported that Jews were considered a burden, insofar as they consumed some of the food. Escaped Jews were neither housed nor fed by the Ukrainians. They were living in earth holes or in crowded old huts.<16> Later, in Kharkov, where almost all of the remaining Jews had already been shot, the attitude toward Jewry of the civilian residents was reported to be, with isolated exceptions, still absolutely negative. Hidden Jews were seized daily with the help of inhabitants who revealed the whereabouts of the victims.<17>" (Hilberg, Perpetrators, 200) <16> Reich Security Main Office IV-A-1, Operational and Situation Report No. 49, September 25, 1941, Nuremberg trials documents NO-3146. See also the report by Section VII (Military Government) of the army's Security Division 213, signed by division commander von Courbiere, August 27, 1941, National Archives Record Group 242, T501, Roll 34. <17> Reich Security Main Office IV-A-1, Operational and Situation Report No. 191, April 10, 1942, Nuremberg trials document NO-3256. Work Cited Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc. 1992
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