The last Jew of Vinnitsa, 1941
A picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa”.
It shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D just about to shoot a Jewish man
kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941.
All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.
Never knew the story behind that photo. Thanks.
FDR would approve.
Thanks MarvinStinson.
That FDR tapped Ales Hrdlicka, and that the latter had racial superiority views, was a little bit surprising to me -- Ales Hrdlicka began his career advocating in favor of PreColumbian contact as the explnation for megalithic structures and large moundbuilding. He then made a strong 180 and is literally the godfather of the isolationist view that prevails today as Clovis-First-and-Only. Isolationism has a political appeal of course, and it could be argued has roots in xenophobia and racial superiority. Columbus, he was the first to come by boat, the ancestors of Precolumbian tribes, they came on foot, and only did it once.
In Hrdlicka's time, the view was that human presence in the Americas was only 3000 years old. That view died hard, but not as hard as Clovis-First-and-Only.
