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On January
6, 1942, Soviet Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov sent a message
to all countries with which the USSR had diplomatic relations, with
information on mass graves that the Soviet army had discovered after
liberating a series of towns and localities on the Moscow front in
the winter offensive. The letters, entitled "Concerning the
Nazis’ terrible crimes against civilians, prisoners of war, and
others," quoted witnesses who had come from the occupied
territories and described the murder of 52,000 people in Kiev and
additional thousands in Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Mariopol,
Kamenets-Podolsk, and other locations. The letters supported
fragmentary reports that were gradually reaching the Western
countries and corroborated accounts of the genocide raging through
Europe.
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