Summary of Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard's Killing the SS

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Benny Ferencz was the first Nazi hunter, and he served in the army in 1945. He was assigned to the headquarters of Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army. His mission was to enter concentration camps and compile evidence of atrocities.
#2 Ferencz was a war crimes investigator, and his job was to go to the death camps and pore over the records. He would find out when trains arrived in a camp, which country they came from, and how many prisoners were on board.
#3 On the same date as Heinrich Himmler’s death, Gen. Otto Ohlendorf, former leader of the Einsatzgruppen mobile death squads, is detained by the Allies in the town of Lüneburg. Ohlendorf had separated from Himmler shortly before the Reichsführer’s capture.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 28 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669368878
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard's Killing the SS
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Benny Ferencz was the first Nazi hunter, and he served in the army in 1945. He was assigned to the headquarters of Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army. His mission was to enter concentration camps and compile evidence of atrocities.

#2

Ferencz was a war crimes investigator, and his job was to go to the death camps and pore over the records. He would find out when trains arrived in a camp, which country they came from, and how many prisoners were on board.

#3

On the same date as Heinrich Himmler’s death, Gen. Otto Ohlendorf, former leader of the Einsatzgruppen mobile death squads, is detained by the Allies in the town of Lüneburg. Ohlendorf had separated from Himmler shortly before the Reichsführer’s capture.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The final day of the Nuremberg Trials began. The purpose of the proceedings was not only to prosecute the highest echelon of Nazi war criminals, but also to reveal to the world once and for all the true extent of their depravities.

#2

The most anticipated testimony begins on March 13, 1946, when Hermann Göring is called to testify. He was arrested on May 9, 1945, by the U. S. Seventh Army’s 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Göring had risen to become commander of Jagdgeschwader 1, nicknamed the Flying Circus.

#3

Göring was the second-most-powerful man in Germany during World War II. He was in charge of forestry and economics, and he designed his own elaborate uniforms. He was the bon vivant to Hitler’s asceticism.

#4

On October 1, the verdicts were read. Twelve of the defendants were sentenced to death, three were sentenced to life in prison, four were sentenced to jail terms of ten to twenty years, and three were acquitted.

#5

The execution of Hermann Göring would take place at the time and place of his choosing, and that time was now. His death was ordered by the American guard commandant Burton C. Andrus, who would again read the sentence of death that had been passed on Göring two weeks ago.

#6

The prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials only included the leaders of the SS, while the other defendants were publishers, industrialists, politicians, ambassadors, and soldiers. It is as if the many crimes of Nazi Germany are being laid upon the men in charge rather than soldiers who cold-bloodedly carry them out.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Benny Ferencz is back in Europe. With the Nuremberg Trials over, he and his wife, Gertrude, are eager to spend a few hours resting in their room at the Excelsior Hotel. They are hoping to hear Pope Pius XII say Midnight Mass at the Vatican before their return to Berlin.

#2

In 1947, Benny Ferencz was appointed the chief prosecutor for the biggest murder trial in history. He was twenty-seven years old and it was his first case. He would use the term genocide to describe the Nazi extermination of the Jews.