"More than 3,600 Jewish men, women, and children are taken from Vilna, Lithuania, to nearby Ponary, where they are shot as retribution for the partisan ambush of a German patrol."
"Under the watchful eye of French police, a Jewish man complies with the government order forbidding Jews to own radios.
Such measures, enacted throughout 1941, were designed to oppress and isolate Jews as a prelude to their arrests and deportations.
Meanwhile, the Vichy government pursued a policy of Aryanization involving the seizure of Jewish property and businesses."
"From June 1941 to June 1942, Otto Ohlendorf commanded Einsatzgruppe D.
This extermination squad operated in the Crimea-Caucasus region, where Ohlendorf ordered the slaughter of 90,000 people.
"Justifying his actions at his trial in 1947, he asserted his utter conviction in the "military necessity" of the killings.
'Jews,' he argued, 'posed a continuous danger for German occupation troops and might someday attack Germany.'
As for murdering children, he reasoned they 'were people who would grow up and, being the children of parents who had been killed, would constitute a danger no smaller than that of the parents.'
"To ease the 'immense psychological burden' of personal responsibility, he ordered his executioners to shoot simultaneously at victims.
During the trial, women sent flowers to the cell of the handsome defendant, who was sentenced to hang for his crimes."