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====Lvov pogrom====
====Lvov pogrom====
[[File:360px-Lviv pogrom (June - July 1941).jpg|right|250px|thumb|Lvov pogrom, June-July 1941.]]
[[File:360px-Lviv pogrom (June - July 1941).jpg|right|250px|thumb|Lvov pogrom, June-July 1941.]]
Germany invaded the [[Soviet Union]] on June 22, 1941, occupying Lvov within a week. The Germans claimed that the city's [[Jewish]] population had supported the Soviets. Ukrainian mobs went on a rampage against Jews.<ref>Kopstein writes: "On June 30, 1941, on the eighth day of [[operation Barbarossa]], the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a pogrom broke out in Lviv, the capital city of [[Eastern Galicia]]. Ukrainians, and to a lesser extent Poles, massacred their Jewish neighbors and fellow citizens. (…) For the next two days Lviv witnessed terrible anti-Jewish violence at the hands of the local Ukrainian population and the Ukrainian militia, and under the Nazis' approving eyes." Kopstein pp. 219-220.</ref> They stripped and beat Jewish women and men in the streets of Lvov. Ukrainian partisans supported by German authorities killed about 4,000 Jews in Lvov during this [[pogrom]].<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/pogrom-in-lvov POGROM IN LVOV (8mm film, 1:38 min)], US Holocaust Memorial Musuem.</ref>
Germany invaded the [[Soviet Union]] on [[June 22, 1941]], occupying Lvov within a week. The Germans claimed that the city's [[Jewish]] population had supported the Soviets. Ukrainian mobs went on a rampage against Jews.<ref>Kopstein writes: "On June 30, 1941, on the eighth day of [[operation Barbarossa]], the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a pogrom broke out in Lviv, the capital city of [[Eastern Galicia]]. Ukrainians, and to a lesser extent Poles, massacred their Jewish neighbors and fellow citizens. (…) For the next two days Lviv witnessed terrible anti-Jewish violence at the hands of the local Ukrainian population and the Ukrainian militia, and under the Nazis' approving eyes." Kopstein pp. 219-220.</ref> They stripped and beat Jewish women and men in the streets of Lvov. Ukrainian partisans supported by German authorities killed about 4,000 Jews in Lvov during this [[pogrom]].<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/pogrom-in-lvov POGROM IN LVOV (8mm film, 1:38 min)], US Holocaust Memorial Musuem.</ref>
Lvov was occupied by the [[Wehrmacht]] in the early hours of June 30, 1941; German forces consisted of the 1st Mountain Division and the [[Abwehr]]-subordinated [[Nachtigall Battalion]] staffed by ethnic Ukrainians.
Lvov was occupied by the [[Wehrmacht]] in the early hours of June 30, 1941; German forces consisted of the 1st Mountain Division and the [[Abwehr]]-subordinated [[Nachtigall Battalion]] staffed by ethnic Ukrainians.