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Originally Posted by marcus69x  Been reading a bit about the Holocaust today and having seen Schindlers list, I thought I'd read a bit about the evil Amon Goth who was in charge of Plaszow.
Quote, "In Płaszów, Göth tortured and murdered prisoners on a daily basis. During his time at Płaszów, Göth allegedly shot over 500 Jews himself; Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindler Jews, famously said, "When you saw Göth, you saw death."
Sounds like a nice bloke!
Anyway, I'm off to watch it now, but I thought I'd ask the forum:
Who was the worst of the SS? |
That all depends on what you mean. War crime? Crime against humanity? Planning? Actually killing? Killing style? etc.
The Death Camps: Hitler delegated authority to Himmler. Himmler did the same. Men like Höss and Eichmann built the death camps or organized the transfer of Jews. There were many "grunts" at these camps, recruited from various countries, who gassed or shot the Jews. Your question is difficult to answer without mega-research.
The Einsatzgruppen: These groups, numbering about 4,000 men at the beginning of the invasion of Russia, witnessed a high degree of transfers and replacements. SS and Wehrmacht anti-partisan actions also escalated throughout. So, your question is, again, a tough one.
I doubt we will ever know your answer.
The strange thing about Goth is that he was institutionalized by the Nazis for mental illness -- hey, I thought the Nazis euthenized mental patients?