28 June 1942Under the code name ‘Operation Blue’ [‘Unternehmen Blau’] or ‘Case Blue’ [‘Fall Blau’], the Wehrmacht’s summer offensive begins in the southern section of the German Eastern Front with advances towards the Volga region and the North Caucasus (Soviet Union). By the end of February 1943, hundreds of Roma were murdered by German units in these areas.
6 September 1942100 to 150 Jews, Roma and Russians, who had been interned as non-local evacuees and refugees in Kislovodsk, German occupied Russia, are taken out of the town by the German Security Police and shot in a ravine.
