Opinion ID: 2976918
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Heading: Nazi-Germany’s Occupation of the City of L’viv

Text: In 1941, Nazi-Germany invaded the European part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, including the city of L’viv (in what is now the Ukraine), to implement its vision of a new racial order. L’viv became part of District Galacia, an administrative unit of the General Government created by Nazi-Germany during World War II. The General Government was a German-run government set up to rule parts of Poland and the Ukraine. The Nazi-Germans enacted a set of racially motivated policies against civilian populations under their control, particularly Jewish populations. The district court summarized the persecutory measures Nazi-Germany enforced against the Jews in District Galacia, particularly in L’viv: Nazi persecutory policy toward the Jews in District Galicia included 1) confining all Jews in ghettos and issuing new identification papers that identified them as Jews; 2) forcibly removing Jews from the ghetto for subsequent murder either by shooting or gassing; and 3) sparing a limited number of Jews whom the Germans considered “work capable” until they were transferred to forced labor camps where many died from starvation, disease and other inhumane conditions. United States v. Kalymon, No. 04-60003, 2007 WL 1012983, at  (E.D. Mich. Mar. 29, 2007).