Ternopol may have indeed been instigated by the Germans, but it was carried out by the Ukrainian Nationalists, who had been starved to death by the millions, and beaten by the commissars that the local jews supported wholeheartedly.
That’s one of the cruel facts that gets lost in the political correctness. Many of the the Jews of Eastern Europe saw Communism as their salvation from the pogroms of the past, and wholeheartedly embraced it.
This was a land already soaked in blood long before the Nazi’s arrived.
No doubt. I've said here before that, when it came to mass murder and genocide, the older Stalin was, in a sense, young Hitler's mentor, and in the end was probably responsible for even more deaths than Hitler.
Of course, Stalin was more concerned with class than race, and normally tried harder than Hitler to extract the last bit of useful work out of his victims, before they died.
Thus you might even argue that Hitler's murders were often quicker and more "humane" than Stalin's.
But the linkage of Jew = Communist was, and is, a permanent feature of Nazi propaganda, and while it's certainly true that many Eastern European Jews were Communists, Nazi murder rampages made little effort to distinguish between Communist or actively partisan Jews on the one hand, and totally innocent Jewish old & young, men, women & children.
In the end, to Nazis they were all just Jews, and all were murdered.