As everyone starts to post their pics of tanks streaming into the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa, just your reminder that the mass murder phase of the #Holocaust began in the USSR and during this period. These are not coincidences. 
Caveat 1: This is not to say that the Nazis hadn't murdered people prior to this, but, that it was the first time that all Jews were targeted for killing regardless of age or sex.
Caveat 2: It was during this time frame (summer/fall 1941) that the most important decisions for the Final Solution took place and that constrution of the extermination camps began.
Caveat 3: A lot of the experimentation for ways to carry out the Final Solution took place on Soviet territory or were connected to the war in the east.
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