Werner reported that the Jews had to 'lie down facing the earth up against the walls of the hollow' and were then murdered via a bullet in the neck. The next victims then had to lie down on top of the bodies.
Three days after the execution they began covering the heaps of corpses with earth. According to Heidborn a hand was seen waving from among the bodies three days later.
• Time required, given two 'packers' and marksmen, or 12 marksmen?
• How does the position of the victims, up against the wall of the ravine, agree with the picture[42] where 'exhumed bodies' are shown lying flat?
• Why are critical researchers not allowed access to documents, and not only in Ludwigsburg? Why does not even public prosecutor Willi Dre?en take exception to the contradictions, to say nothing of the physical impossibilities alleged? Why do the authors make no mention of the 300,000 Jews postulated for Kyiv in Event Report 106, and mention only the 150,000 from Event Report 97 of September 28, 1941?[43]
• Why does even Reitlinger,[44] the Holocaust Pope, marvel how it was possible to keep that many people together on the road for two whole days, but Klee and his co-authors do not notice this problem?
12. Now for Adalbert Ruckerl. His anonymous witness would seem to be Werner, from the previous scenario. The witness reports:[45],[46]
'[...] shot [...] the entire Jewish population of Kyiv. [...] Executions [...] until five or six o'clock. [...] All were naked.'
In the second publication[46] we find that Ruckerl draws on Event Report 106[3] unmodified. He quotes the blocking-off of the execution place, the filling-in of the pits after the execution, as well as a few individual Soviet citizens who had secretly witnessed the execution. He suggests that neutral witnesses were only rarely available and that their testimony was generally not suited to convicting the accused. As an example he quotes the statement of the witness N. T. Gorbacheva from Kyiv:[47]
'[...] I lived in Kyiv, at 55 Tiraspols-Kaja Street, Door 2. [...] near the place called Babi Yar. On September 22, 1941, I saw with my own eyes [...] how, in the course of the day, about 40 lorries drove to Babi Yar, loaded with Jewish residents. [...] I and some other women [...] went, unnoticed by the Germans guards, to the place where [...] the people were being unloaded. We saw that about 50 ft. from the beginning of the Babi Yar the Germans forced the Jews to undress and ordered them to run along the Babi Yar. Then the Germans shot at the running people with submachine guns and machine guns. [...] There were not only people who had been shot, but also injured people and even living children in the ravine. Nevertheless the Germans filled the ravine in; the thin layer of soil moved visibly.'
The only things Ruckerl contests is the date, and the use of lorries for all the victims. He lets it stand for those who could not walk. Ruckerl withholds the fact that Gorbacheva claimed:[48]
'The shooting of the Jews went on for several days.'
• According to the unnamed witness[45] 6 o'clock was 'closing time'. So all those who tell of murders at night must have lied?
• Is Ruckerl so unfamiliar with the Soviets' Babel of propaganda and lies that he considers a book printed in Moscow in 1963 to be a reliable document?
• Was he able to find a 'Tiraspolskaja Street' (that's how it would be written correctly!) on a street map of Kyiv, and near the 'place' Babi Yar (which is not a 'place' at all)?
• How many people - along with their possessions - can 40 lorries carry?
• Does Ruckerl really believe that some of the ladies of Kyiv were so insane, so utterly fearless, or so curious that they would sneak past the guards posted by the evil enemy, and then watch the mass murder? Is there 'a Babi Yar' that has a beginning and which one can run along? Are executions carried out by shooting at running targets with various kinds of firearms?
• How does the 'thin layer of soil' agree with the great quantities of earth needed to fill in a ravine? And would anyone who had not been hit by a bullet not suffocate directly after being buried alive?
13. In Babi Yar in March 1942[49] Adalbert Hartl, Gestapo Expert for Church Matters, observed:
'small explosions that shot up clods of earth. It was the spring thaw that was letting the gas from the thousands of bodies escape.'
• What is a Gestapo Expert for Church Matters doing at Babi Yar? The small explosions and rocketing clods of earth are nonsense, for even when wet ground freezes solid it is never gas-proof - especially not sandy soil.
5. Other Sources
1. A physician named Dr. Gustav Wilhelm Schubbe allegedly killed 21,000 persons single-handedly, with morphine injections. 110,000 to 140,000 victims were allegedly killed in this way at the 'German Annihilation Institute' in Kyiv.[50],[51]
• Injections of morphine, which was in very short supply and badly needed for wounded soldiers? And how long would it take one physician to give 21,000 injections?
• According to the files of the US Document Center in Berlin, which holds more than one million records pertaining to members of the NSDAP ('Nazi' Party), Dr. Gustav Wilhelm Schubbe was never stationed in Kyiv.
• Why did neither the USSR nor the Jews ever search for the location of this 'Annihilation Institute'?
2. After the liberation of Kyiv, Moscow newspapers and the New York Times reported that 40,000 (!) inhabitants of Kyiv had written to Joseph Stalin and given the number of victims of Babi Yar as more than 100,000. [52]
• When, where and how did these people die?
• What happened to all these 'witnesses'?
3. In 1963 Nikita Khrushchev sharply criticized the literary champions of 'Jewish martyrdom', especially Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who had drawn notice the year before with his poem Babi Yar:[53]
'I urge Comrade Yevtushenko and other young literati to appreciate the trust of the majority [of the people], not to seek cheap sensationalism [and] not to pander to the mood and tastes of the Philistines. Do not be ashamed, Comrade Yevtushenko, to admit your mistakes. [...]
When the enemies of our Cause begin to praise you for pleasing tales, then the people will criticize you, and rightly so.'
The cause for Khrushchev's reference to 'propitious tales' was Yevtushenko's readings of his poem Babi Yar. Khrushchev's blunt words weigh very heavily, for several reasons:
• Would Khrushchev have used the term 'cheap sensationalism' if the hated enemy from the 'Great Patriotic War' had in fact murdered thousands of Soviet citizens at Babi Yar? Would he then have cautioned Yevtushenko against 'pander[ing] to the mood and the tastes of the Philistines'?
• Would Khrushchev then have admonished against 'pleasing tales'?
• In his capacity as Head of the Soviet Communist Party and General Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, Khrushchev on June 24, 1941, ordered the liquidation of the political prisoners in Lvov (Lemberg). The NKVD then began with the mass murders in the prisons of Lemberg and other places in the western Ukraine. The Soviets also laid the blame for these massacres at the Germans' door. Khrushchev knew exactly who had done the murdering and who it was who had suffered!
• Furthermore, Khrushchev, a Ukrainian, knew very well that the minorities predominating in the economy and in industry, research, teaching and politics in the Ukraine - in other words, the Greater Russians and especially
