The Schutzstaffel (SS) - Hitler's Criminal Machine
The Bureaucrat of Death: SS-General Walter Stahlecker
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He looked like a model civil servant — calm, educated, meticulous.
But behind the typewriter and legal jargon, Walter Stahlecker built one of the first genocides of the Holocaust.
As commander of Einsatzgruppe A, he oversaw the annihilation of the Baltic Jews, turning Nazi ideology into systematic murder.
His cold reports to Reinhard Heydrich reveal how the Holocaust began — not in gas chambers, but in forests filled with gunfire and graves.
A story of a man who killed through orders and ink, until partisans ended his life in 1942.
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