The Final Reckoning of the SS and Hungarian Nazi Collaborators

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This documentary examines the events at Kamianets-Podilskyi in 1941, one of the earliest major atrocities against entire Jewish communities during the Holocaust. The story begins with the collapse of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, when Hungary occupied Subcarpathian Ruthenia, bringing a large Jewish population under Hungarian rule. As refugees arrived from elsewhere in Central Europe, the status of Jews unable to prove their Hungarian citizenship became increasingly precarious. Following Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Hungary entered the conflict alongside Nazi Germany. Hungarian officials saw the rapidly changing situation in the east as an opportunity to remove Jews whose citizenship they refused to recognise. Families were detained and transported towards the border, with many ultimately forced into German-occupied territory. By late August, around 16,000 deportees had reached Kamianets-Podilskyi, in present-day western Ukraine. The sudden arrival of thousands o

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