“It was one of the main reasons cited for the reprisals that are known as “Babi Yar”.”
It was an EXCUSE for murder. There were no reprisals known as Babi Yar: Babi Yar was just the ravine where the murders took place. There were murder units known as Einsatzgruppen that followed the Wermacht into Russia during Barbarossa. A lot of Einsatzgruppen were Lithuanian.
Well I would say it somewhat expedited the process (2 days to kill 33,000+)