No kidding. I've done some reading, a little light research, I want to get serious, but it's rather like what StA said about his listening to the Martymade podcast.Okeefenokee wrote:I haven't looked at it, but there was killing coming from the Germans, Red Army, Soviet Partisans, and Independent Partisans. The whole eastern front was a clusterfuck of killing.BjornP wrote:As to the OP story, interesting find Penner. While the Nazis were good record keepers, the number of mass murders committed along and across the Eastern front that took place in woods, fields or other non-"processing" sites, are unlikely to have been recorded as meticulously.
My mind goes bye bye, I'm turning off now.
It's like sanity, never mind decency also went bye bye for the whole area.
The part I cannot handle is where many of the Cathedrals Poles go full genocide on their Jewish neighbors, while they too are being enslaved, and effectively slowly exterminated, by the Germans at the same time.
Or read about how German Police units full of staid middle aged men slowly morph from having nightmares from shooting some unarmed groups of civilian men via firing squad to being just fine individually shooting by themselves, not as part of a squad, men, women, children, babies in the head all day long.
The officers could have refused to do so. Performing mass murder in an Einsatzgruppen usually was voluntary, or least be safely refused. But almost none of them refused.