Many facts regarding the Nazi army have been
looked upon by analysts over the last century to understand their organization
and the structure they employed to follow their course of action. Despite it
being a military force, there are many sub-divisions within the Nazi army which
alongside the main war branch create the whole entity the Nazi Party once used
to be to the world. One of these branches was known as the Schutzstaffel, a special Nazi police task force which was in charge
of public “security” and would serve as something similar to a police patrol
within the Nazi Germany governed nations. Other major funcition of said organization
was to direct the nnazi concentration camps located all over Europe.
The Schutzstaffel,
abbreviated as the SS for documentation and further reference, have been
labeled by many organizations, amongst them the post-Nazi German Government and
the UN as an outlaw terrorist organization guilty for many crimes against
humanity committed during the war. Their instructions were simple: shot any who
may represent both a political or racial enemy of the Third Reich. This was not
only present within Germany but also many other countries at the time submitted
to the tyranny of Hitler. One of them was Soviet Russia.
Operation Barbarossa and the SS:
After Adolf Hitler broke the no-aggression
alliance he had with Joseph Stalin in year 1941, during June, and invaded
Soviet Russia, the many cities that were taken hostage by the fascists were
being controlled by a branch of the Schutzstaffel
which was then given the name of Einsatzgruppen.
Its tasks were basically the same as those of the Schutzstaffel, the main difference being that it was primarily set outside Germany, such as in the Soviet Union.
The apprehension and massacre of Leningrad in September
8 of 1941, amongst many other brutalities committed against the Soviets during
the war is one of the many atrocities committed by the Einsatzgruppen. Many cities succumbed to their rage, such as Kovno,
Riga, Warsaw and the European sector of Russia.
Methodology:
The Einsatzgruppen
was mostly recognized for having a cold-blooded mind against the enemies of the
Arian race at the time. They would firstly murder only older Jewish men, but as
time passed they started to break off their limits and murdered women,
children, elderly people (all of Jewish faith), as well as gypsies, homosexuals
and innocent soviet citizens who were labeled as communists.
Such behavior was brutal and a big contribution
to the genocide that was taking place within the concentration camps far off
from the Soviet Union, were millions of innocent civilians died under the hands
of the Nazi party.
Their main murder procedure was by shooting the
criminals, making them form lines and openly firing at them in the middle of
the street. The bodies were put inside mass graves with no names or forms of
personal identification. It was brutal, and if one was labeled as an enemy of
the Nazi government, they had no other choice than to accept their bloody fate
at the hands of this villainous group of barbarians.
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