Einsatzgruppen Commander Otto Ohlendorf: The Bureaucrat of Death
Einsatzgruppen Leaders: Faces of Nazi Genocide
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He was not a soldier of the front but of ideology.
Otto Ohlendorf, a lawyer and economist, led Einsatzgruppe D — one of the Nazi death squads responsible for wiping out Jewish life across the occupied East.
To him, mass murder was an administrative task, carried out with discipline and precision.
His chilling logic — that obedience justified every crime — remains one of the darkest lessons of the Holocaust.
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