EXCLUSIVE: According to Professor Jürgen Matthäus, the image was taken on 28 July 1941, at a fortress near Berdychiv, before its Jewish population was forced into a ghetto View 3 Images A German soldier is about to shoot a Jewish man in Vinnytsia. 1941

A German historian has finally identified a war criminal pictured in one of the most chilling images of the Holocaust, a photograph popularly known as ‘The Last Jew in Vinnitsa’. The photograph shows the execution of a Jewish man at gunpoint in Ukraine in 1941. ‌

The research, carried out by Professor Jürgen Matthäus, names the gunman as Jakobus Oehnen, a German schoolteacher who later became an SS officer. Oehnen is believed to have taken part in mass shootings of Jews in Berdychiv, western Ukraine, following the Nazi in

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