 Dnipropetrovsk was under Nazi occupation from 26 August 1941 to 25 October 1943.As part of the Holocaust, in February 1942 "Einsatzgruppe" D reduced the city's Jewish population from 30,000 to 702 over the course of four days.As early as July 1944, the State Committee of Defence in Moscow decided to build a large military machine-building factory in Dnipropetrovsk on the location of the pre-war aircraft plant.