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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Otto Ohlendorf was a German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. An economist by education, he was head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Inland, responsible for intelligence and security within Germany. In 1941, Ohlendorf was appointed the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which perpetrated mass murder in Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea and, during 1942, the North Caucasus. He was tried at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, convicted and executed in 1951.
There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.
The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.
In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.
Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.