Kyiv Public Execution: Nazis Responsible for the Babi Yar Massacre Hanged After WWII

World History: True Stories of the 20th Century · Mar 26, 2026 · 16m

The Kyiv public execution in January 1946 saw Nazi perpetrators responsible for crimes including the Babi Yar massacre hanged before thousands of residents in one of the most dramatic postwar justice events. After the German occupation of Kyiv on 19 September 1941, a series of explosions—planted by the retreating Soviet NKVD—served as a pretext for Nazi retaliation. The city’s Jewish population was falsely accused of involvement, and what followed became one of the largest single massacres of Jews in the Holocaust outside the death camps. On 29 and 30 September 1941, approximately 33,771…