"Courage means seeking the truth and proclaiming it!"—Jean Jaurés
1. Preamble
The subject of 'Babi Yar' is confusing in many respects. For a general overview, this brief summary shall therefore identify the major problem areas:- The mass murder at Babi Yar took place almost four months prior to the Wannsee Conference, where the killing was allegedly first planned.
- Widely divergent dates are given for the murder.
- Depending on the source, the number of victims varies by as much as two orders of magnitude.
- Widely different methods and weapons are alleged for the murders.
- There is also no consensus on where the killings took place.
- The witnesses, or reports respectively, make highly contradictory claims in other respects as well.
- The number of alleged victims by far exceeds the number of Jews remaining in Kyiv after the Soviet evacuation.
- To date there has been no forensic investigation of the murder site and weapons. No attempts were ever made to ascertain and secure any evidence.
- It is also odd that the Soviets would use a site as a location for a garbage dump and incineration area where countless victims were allegedly murdered by the archenemy during the 'Great Patriotic War'.
- And finally, the allegations are disproved by wartime air photos.
