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Anna Cordelia's avatar

This was very enlightening.

Once you know about the massacres carried out by the (largely Jewish) NKVD and Cheka during the Red Terror, it's no wonder the Einsatzgruppen had such a grisly job to do in dealing with the perpetrators when they took over Soviet territories in the East.

How could the Germans possibly have hoped to keep the peace in such areas without meting out justice to the people (creatures?) who'd committed the atrocities they had against the citizenry?

Interesting that some of the Germans actually struggled with carrying out the executions. In the accounts I've read of Cheka and NKVD members executing completely ordinary Russians and Ukrainians, they absolutely relished the task.

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Karl's avatar

Context is everything in history and jews (and Communists) love to remove context so that they can paint things as black as possible.

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SS Man's avatar

Most of the time the Germans didn’t even have to do anything but step back and let the locals take care of things.

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SS Man's avatar

It’s important to remember that to the National socialist, “Jew” was synonymous with “communists” and the communists were killing German citizens and soldiers whenever they had a chance. The SS didn’t just walk in and ask if someone was a Jew and then shoot them, they performed field trials and executions on those guilty of partisan activities.

Those executed were not innocent little Jews who were just trying to live peacefully and grow potatoes. They were violent enemies of a righteous government.

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Dr William von Peters's avatar

Could you do an article on Czesława Kwoka the 14 year old Polish girl supposedly wantonly murdered at Auschwitz.

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Karl's avatar

Sure but it isn't that complicated as her death certificate from early 1943 states that she died of cachexia and then anecdotally it is claimed - on no real basis - that she was injected with phenol like Kolbe allegedly was. In truth there's no evidence she was actually just injected with phenol at all and people forget phenol was actually a common painkiller at the time!

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