Hear Me Out on the Nazi Comparison Thing.
UNFTR Weekly Roundup Join us on Discord and Bluesky , and check out Max’s contributor videos on the MeidasTouch Network! Watch the video version of this newsletter . Max Notes Who are these guys? When Otto Ohlendorf, who had spent the waning years of World War II in the German Ministry of Economics, was questioned at Nuremberg about his earlier activities in the war as a commander of the Einsatzgruppen he was asked how many men, women and children his particular unit had murdered. As his questioner Whitney R. Harris later recalled, Ohlendorf shrugged and said plainly, “Ninety thousand.” In his affidavit, Ohlendorf elaborated: “The Einsatz unit would enter a village or town and order the prominent Jewish citizens to call together all Jews for the purpose of ‘resettlement.’ They were requested to hand over their valuables and shortly before execution to surrender their outer clothing. They were transported to the place of exe...