Mapping Ponar (Paneriai): A reassessment
The Ponar-Paneriai base, the main extermination site of Vilna-Vilnius, began its existence as a Red Army fuel depot in 1940. After Nazi occupation of the city in 1941 the Einsatzgruppen and mostly Lithuanian members of the Ypatingasis būrys used the pits dug for the fuel tanks for the murder of the...
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Language: | English |
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Manchester University Press
2020-04-01
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Series: | Human Remains and Violence |
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