Word: einsatzgruppen
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...great curtain of silence. Hitler had told his commanders in August that he planned to send SS units to Poland "to kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of Polish race or language." That was an exaggeration, but not by much. In town after town, Einsatzgruppen (special units) began roaming from house to house, systematically murdering local officials, teachers, doctors, aristocrats, Jews, clergymen, anyone who might oppose the New Order. SS officials in Berlin boasted of 200 shootings a day, but behind that curtain of silence, in obscure villages with names like Treblinka and Auschwitz, the killing...
Grasping Hand. Eichmann's first contribution was the organization of special SS Einsatzgruppen, who followed the Panzer columns as they rolled deep into the Soviet Union and machine-gunned all Jews they could lay hands on. The SS method for distinguishing between Jew and Gentile was quite simple: any Russian who "looked Jewish" was summarily shot...
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