**Chilling Holocaust Image Identifies War Criminal** A haunting photograph from the Holocaust, known as ‘The Last Jew in Vinnitsa’, has been linked to a German war criminal. Professor Jürgen Matthäus has identified the gunman in the image as Jakobus Oehnen, a former schoolteacher who became an SS officer. The photograph captures the moment a Jewish man is about to be executed in Ukraine in 1941. Matthäus's research reveals that the image was taken on 28 July 1941, at a fortress near Berdychiv, not Vinnitsa as previously thought. This was shortly after the Nazis had taken control of the area. The victim remains unidentified, but the photograph shows an SS officer poised to shoot a kneeling Jewish man, with around 20 German soldiers observing the scene. Oehnen, born in 1906, joined the Nazi party before Hitler's rise to power in 1933. He was involved in mass shootings of Jews in Berdychiv and participated in mobile killing operations that resulted in the deaths of over 100,000 civilians in Ukraine. He was killed in combat in 1943. The confirmation of Oehnen’s identity was supported by evidence from a Wehrmacht officer’s diary and a photographic negative found in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Matthäus's findings have been published in the German academic journal Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft. This revelation comes amid reports of a significant discovery in Argentina, where workers found crates filled with Nazi propaganda materials in the basement of the country’s supreme court. The 83 boxes contained postcards, photographs, and notebooks from the Nazi regime, sent by the German embassy in Tokyo in 1941. The identification of Oehnen adds a new layer of understanding to one of the most notorious images of the Holocaust, shedding light on the brutal realities faced by Jewish communities during this dark chapter in history.
Chilling Holocaust Image Identifies War Criminal

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