Similarities Between Einsatzgruppen And The Holocaust
The Einsatzgruppen, and The Holocaust by bullets.
BY: Kaitlyn Campbell
Kaitlyn Campbell 5/2/14
Einsatzgruppen Essay Honors Global
The Einsatzgruppen were a highly effective group of mass murderers, who had a particularly strong negative bias towards the Jews.
The Einsatzgruppen was a German killing squad organized by Reinhard Heydrich. They consisted of several thousand men, divided into units of 800 to 1200. They were mainly composed by Schutzstaffel (SS,) and personal police. The Schutzstaffel was established by Hitler to serve as his personal guard at …show more content…
First they would round up the Jews and other undesirable citizens, these victims encompassed Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Soviet state officials and communists. The Einsatzgruppen also slaughtered thousands of mentally or physically disabled people who lived in the institutions. Many scholars believe that the methodical killing of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union by the Einsatzgruppen was the first step of the "Final Solution," the Nazi program to murder all European Jews. They then herded them into German territory, under the ruse of "Deportation." Many of the citizens didn 't expect anything too serious until they were forced to dig mass trenches, that would soon be their grave. At the order of an SS man they would remove their clothing and belongings and place them into piles. They were then forced to line up and kneel, so that when they were shot they would fall into the grave. They were very efficient in these mass murders, most definitely too …show more content…
One man in particular name Alexander Kimel. Alexander said “Despite all the killings we believed that the Germans are going to lose the war and we will survive. My guess is that a young healthy person cannot imagine his death. The sun will stop shining, the birds will be silent, darkness will prevail. Death is hard to imagine. It is hard to imagine that with all the tragedies, pain and hunger, there was only one case of suicide in the ghetto. The more life is unattainable, the more it is desirable and the will to live is getting stronger and stronger.” Even at the worlds darkest hour the people still had hope. Alexander mentions in his memoir that even with each day being a struggle to survive people would still live. He recalled how people would fall in love, start families, and even get into petty arguments with their neighbors. Born in Galizia, 1939, Alexander grew up as a regular boy, going to school, enjoying the company of friends, and family, with his only worries being school exams. But after his town was “nationalized” by the red army, they moved, fearing that they would be sent to Siberia, into the ghetto of another small town named Rohatyn. They lived there between 1941 and 1943, watching the Germans kill almost all of the Jews in that area. Out of 10,000 people living there only 100 survived, luckily Alexander was never sent to a concentration camp. But on March 21, 1942, their ghetto was
BY: Kaitlyn Campbell
Kaitlyn Campbell 5/2/14
Einsatzgruppen Essay Honors Global
The Einsatzgruppen were a highly effective group of mass murderers, who had a particularly strong negative bias towards the Jews.
The Einsatzgruppen was a German killing squad organized by Reinhard Heydrich. They consisted of several thousand men, divided into units of 800 to 1200. They were mainly composed by Schutzstaffel (SS,) and personal police. The Schutzstaffel was established by Hitler to serve as his personal guard at …show more content…
First they would round up the Jews and other undesirable citizens, these victims encompassed Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Soviet state officials and communists. The Einsatzgruppen also slaughtered thousands of mentally or physically disabled people who lived in the institutions. Many scholars believe that the methodical killing of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union by the Einsatzgruppen was the first step of the "Final Solution," the Nazi program to murder all European Jews. They then herded them into German territory, under the ruse of "Deportation." Many of the citizens didn 't expect anything too serious until they were forced to dig mass trenches, that would soon be their grave. At the order of an SS man they would remove their clothing and belongings and place them into piles. They were then forced to line up and kneel, so that when they were shot they would fall into the grave. They were very efficient in these mass murders, most definitely too …show more content…
One man in particular name Alexander Kimel. Alexander said “Despite all the killings we believed that the Germans are going to lose the war and we will survive. My guess is that a young healthy person cannot imagine his death. The sun will stop shining, the birds will be silent, darkness will prevail. Death is hard to imagine. It is hard to imagine that with all the tragedies, pain and hunger, there was only one case of suicide in the ghetto. The more life is unattainable, the more it is desirable and the will to live is getting stronger and stronger.” Even at the worlds darkest hour the people still had hope. Alexander mentions in his memoir that even with each day being a struggle to survive people would still live. He recalled how people would fall in love, start families, and even get into petty arguments with their neighbors. Born in Galizia, 1939, Alexander grew up as a regular boy, going to school, enjoying the company of friends, and family, with his only worries being school exams. But after his town was “nationalized” by the red army, they moved, fearing that they would be sent to Siberia, into the ghetto of another small town named Rohatyn. They lived there between 1941 and 1943, watching the Germans kill almost all of the Jews in that area. Out of 10,000 people living there only 100 survived, luckily Alexander was never sent to a concentration camp. But on March 21, 1942, their ghetto was