Putin has taken a page straight out of Hitler’s black book. In WWII, when the Wermacht invaded the Soviet Union, it was followed closely by Einsatzgruppen, a “militia” of thugs (many of whom were Lithuanian) whose role was to “cleanse” the area of locals after the army had moved on. Some of the most horrendous atrocities of the war were committed on innocent civilians by these Einsatzgruppen. It got so bad that many in the Wermacht were sickened by the actions of the Einsatzgruppen, and morale in the Wermacht began to suffer and they were afraid of being associated with the evil militia. Not a few German senior officers protested to Berlin, even going so far as threatening to have the troops open fire on the Einsatzgruppen if they were found near the troops.
“they were afraid of being associated with the evil militia.”
They had good reason to be afraid because the Allies made this association and tens and tens of thousands of the Wermacht were slaughtered wholesale during the Allied Offensive in Europe without mercy. Nearly the entire German Third Army was wiped out by relentless P-47 Thunderbolt fighter attacks at the Falaise Gap near Normandy during Operation GrandSlam.
Putin has taken a page straight out of Hitler’s black book. In WWII, when the Wermacht invaded the Soviet Union, it was followed closely by Einsatzgruppen, a “militia” of thugs (many of whom were Lithuanian) whose role was to “cleanse” the area of locals after the army had moved on. Some of the most horrendous atrocities of the war were committed on innocent civilians by these Einsatzgruppen. It got so bad that many in the Wermacht were sickened by the actions of the Einsatzgruppen, and morale in the Wermacht began to suffer and they were afraid of being associated with the evil militia. Not a few German senior officers protested to Berlin, even going so far as threatening to have the troops open fire on the Einsatzgruppen if they were found near the troops.
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Stalin returned the favor, when he sent in Mongol units to rape the women of Berlin, after the Russian regulars had taken it.