Historians ask when the Holocaust of Europe's Jewish population began. Considerably earlier than some suppose to judge by the actions of Dr. Dr. Otto Rasch in september 1941.

1. When ‘Dr Dr’ Otto Rasch and his Accomplices (with only one
Doctor Title to their Names) Unleashed the Holocaust against the
Jewish Population of Kiev
Historians hold differing views as to when the Holocaust began. Can one
trace its origin to the Wannsee Conference in January 1942,as so many
assume? The directive that issued from this conference under the
chairmanship pf Heydrich placed ‘the final solution’ of the Jewish question
on a sure efficientlyorganized footing backed by the creation of the
instrumentrial of death on an industrial scale, but why was such a measure
deemed necessaryin the first place by Hitler, Himmler and Heydrich? A
memo written by Rasch seems to have supplied a prompt that contributed
to the policy of ensuring the extermination of all Jews according to the
terms of the Wannsee Conference.
Dr Dr Rasch oversaw the massacre of Kiev’s Jewish population that
entailed the deaths of 33,000 men, women and children. This horrific event
took place over the space of two days, on September29 an30 at Babi Yar,
a ravine set in what was a secluded woodland at the time. The form of
execution was by firing squad for want of any more hasty or more discreet
method of killing. In fact Rasch’s memo expressedthe opinion that the
means employed at Babi Yar would not cope with the exigencies involved
in any attempt to eliminate the entire Jewish population in the Ukraine and
Russia, so great the scale of such an operation. Besides,the currentneed
to shoot each victim at close range had proved unsettling to many soldiers
and was more generally ‘not good formorale.’ Rasch was relieved of his
duties of orchestrator in chief of mass executions shortly after expressing

2. his misgivings. Though he in no way objected to the executions on purely
moral grounds, as an intelligent pragmatist, he ventured to suggestthat
mass executions of civilians detracted from the main war effortseen as the
destruction of the military-industrial complexon which the Soviet Bolshevist
state relied. Nor should one forgetthe urgent need to capture the enemy’s
oilfields at the earliest opportunity.