In 2025, historian Jürgen Matthäus identified *SS-Unterscharführer* Jakobus Onnen of the *Einsatzgruppe* C mobile killing squad as the gunman after exhaustive research, testimony from Onnen’s family, and facial recognition analysis. Prior to 1939, Onnen was a secondary school teacher. He died in combat in Zhytomyr, Ukraine in 1943. The man being shot has never been positively identified.
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That heap of dead bodies in the ditch, with the legs and shoes pointing in all directions, and that poor man knowing in a few seconds his fate is the same, it’s almost not accessible to my brain as a real event.
Those soldiers lounging around watching humans guilty of nothing get casually murdered like it’s nothing, the extinguishing of lives treated just like a box getting checked on a to do list.
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In 2025, historian Jürgen Matthäus identified *SS-Unterscharführer* Jakobus Onnen of the *Einsatzgruppe* C mobile killing squad as the gunman after exhaustive research, testimony from Onnen’s family, and facial recognition analysis. Prior to 1939, Onnen was a secondary school teacher. He died in combat in Zhytomyr, Ukraine in 1943. The man being shot has never been positively identified.
That heap of dead bodies in the ditch, with the legs and shoes pointing in all directions, and that poor man knowing in a few seconds his fate is the same, it’s almost not accessible to my brain as a real event.
Those soldiers lounging around watching humans guilty of nothing get casually murdered like it’s nothing, the extinguishing of lives treated just like a box getting checked on a to do list.
“Why didn’t he just comply?
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