“They all started screaming. It was a huge crowd of people. Not a dozen or so, but 7,500. They started screaming. There weren’t many Germans. There were Ukrainian policemen, but not many Germans. A girl, probably about 6, got away from the group. Crawling through the clover, she got as far as my cart. A policeman saw her, and ran over to tell a German. And the German came and shot her, right beside my cart. You see what a terrible tragedy it was.” - Kazymyr Vychnevsky, a Ukrainian farmer forced to push bodies into a mass grave with his plow, describing what he saw in 1942. He also describes two teenage girls left standing beside the killing pit while the Germans drank: “[Another German] brought two young girls. [...] He stood the girls by the pit. They were young, about 16 or 18. They were white as a sheet. [...] The two girls stayed by the pit. There was no place for them to run. It wasn’t the same, back then. There were no hiding places. The poor things just stood there, waiting. “Then the German remembered them. He sent one of the others over. That guy took his gun and walked to the pit, totally drunk. Forgive me saying it, but he gave the girl a kick in the ass. She fell in the water, and swam. “He shot at her, in the water. But he couldn’t hit her. He was too drunk. He kept missing.” Sourced from Michael Prazan’s amazing doc, Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades (2009), Part II. I clipped and joined Vychnevsky's two sections, and kept the documentary's English subtitles.