Editing Dnipro (section)

==== Nazi occupation ====
[[File:Monument of 20000 Jews shot by Germans in 1943 in Dnipropetrovsk -Energetichna street-, Ukraine -10-.jpg|thumb|Monument to 20,000 [[Holocaust by Bullets|Jews shot by Germans]] in 1943 in Dnipropetrovsk. The [[monumental inscription]] (in Russian) does not explicitly identify the victims as Jewish, but speaks of "20,000 civilians."<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 May 2009 |title=Monument of 20000 Jews shot by Germans in 1943 in Dnipropetrovsk [Energetichna street], Ukraine |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monument_of_20000_Jews_shot_by_Germans_in_1943_in_Dnipropetrovsk_-Energetichna_street-,_Ukraine_-9-.jpg|access-date=18 October 2022|website=[[Wikimedia Commons]]}}</ref>]]
Dnipropetrovsk was under [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] occupation from [[Operation Barbarossa|26 August 1941]]<ref name="musicandhistory">{{cite web |url=http://musicandhistory.com/music-and-history-by-the-year/202-1941.html |title=1941 |website=MusicAndHistory |access-date=31 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828144212/http://www.musicandhistory.com/music-and-history-by-the-year/202-1941.html |archive-date=28 August 2012}}</ref> to [[Battle of the Dnieper|25 October 1943]].<ref name="liberation">{{cite web |url=http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/oct1943/f25oct43.htm |title=''Onwar.com'', ''Red Army crosses Dniepr River'' |publisher=Onwar.com |access-date=28 November 2014 |archive-date=26 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126173108/http://onwar.com/chrono/1943/oct1943/f25oct43.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The city was administered as part of the ''[[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]].'' The [[Holocaust]] [[The Holocaust in Ukraine|in Dnipropetrovsk]] reduced the city's remaining Jewish population, estimates for which range from 55,000 to 30,000, to just 702.{{sfn|Hilberg|1985|p=372}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harkavi |first=Zvi |date=1973 |title=Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (Pages 89–104,107–110) |url=https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ekaterinoslav/eka089.html |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=www.jewishgen.org}}</ref> In just two days, 13–14 October 1941, the Germans killed 15,000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Holocaust |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CH%5CO%5CHolocaust.htm |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com}}</ref>

Germany operated three [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II|prisoner-of-war camps]] in the city, chiefly Stalag 348 with several subcamps in the region from October 1941 to February 1943, after its relocation from [[Rzeszów]] in German-occupied Poland,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Memorial to the deceased prisoners of war of the Stammlager 348 and patients of the Psychiatric Hospital "Igren" |url=https://terraoblita.com/en/places/50 |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=terraoblita.com |language=en |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927230522/https://terraoblita.com/en/places/50 |url-status=dead }}</ref> at which the occupiers are estimated to have killed upwards of 30,000 Soviet POWs,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Memorial Executed Prisoners of War - Dnipropetrovsk - TracesOfWar.com |url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/67243/Memorial-Executed-Prisoners-of-War.htm |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=www.tracesofwar.com |language=en}}</ref> and briefly also the Stalag 310 and Stalag 387 camps.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Megargee|first1=Geoffrey P.|last2=Overmans|first2=Rüdiger|last3=Vogt|first3=Wolfgang|year=2022|title=The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV|publisher=Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|pages=298, 349, 384|isbn=978-0-253-06089-1}}</ref>

In November 1941 Dnipropetrovsk's population was 233,000. In March 1942 this number had fallen to 178,000.<ref name="article225DniArch"/> On 25 October 1943 the population on the right-bank of the city numbered no more than 5,000.<ref name="article225DniArch"/> According to official statistics, in 1945 the population of Dnipropetrovsk had increased to 259,000 people.<ref name="article225DniArch"/>