The criminal directive "Barbarossa"2

That is, even if desired, the German officer could not give his soldier a tribunal for the murder of a civilian or the rape of a woman in the occupied territory of the former USSR. Impunity, however, especially when a person has arms and power in his hands, awakens demons of consciousness in him and generates heinous crimes. Actually, horrendous mass crimes against civilians began not immediately, but somewhere in the fall of 1941. The atrocities of the Germans led to the fact that when in the Lokot municipal government the administration executed German soldiers for crimes against their inhabitants, the German command pretended that everything was in order. Here I will make a digression concerning all the armies of the world, of all times and peoples. To become a beast to an average person needs time. The average soldier must be convinced of his impunity, and only then he begins to rape and kill. And of course, we need a break in hostilities. When a person is at war, he does not care about the civilian population, his or her. During the fighting itself would be to survive, to cover up his comrades and kill the enemy. At the end (break) of hostilities, there are free time, normal sleep and food. Only then the soldier with the front awakens interest in women, looting, trophies and looting. The auxiliary units and subunits of the second echelon are not particularly affected by military stress. Their job is guarding the rear and stripping. And because they are just the main looters, rapists and murderers of civilians. Hitler was a good soldier in the First World War, brave and disciplined and his Iron Cross certainly deserved. Hitler knew and understood the psychology of a simple soldier, loved him and made a lot of useful things for him. For example, a single meal for all the soldiers of the German army, from the soldier to the field marshal, immediately solved the issue of corruption and theft of intendants in the purchase of food. And army cooks were forced to attend to the quantity and quality of food. In order not to have trouble with the commanders who ate from the same boiler with their soldiers. At the same time, he was somehow ... inadequate, or something. It was necessary to think of this, to dress their soldiers who are already fighting soldiers in uncomfortable uniforms and greatcoats, to give them braces ... Such designer clothes are suitable only for parades, and not for everyday life of real war. The Germans are touchingly touched by the memoirs of Marshal Manstein (his real name is Lewinsky, by the way), who complained that he and his peers could not chew with their old teeth a hard smoked sausage served for dinner. Indeed, in the Wehrmacht for dinner only a piece of sausage was given (it was allowed to replace it with three eggs), bread with margarine and coffee. And where did this sausage come from for the millions of soldiers of the Eastern Front? The answer is simple: from the meat of that cattle and pigs that were taken from the local population, dooming it to hunger and death. In each German division on the Eastern Front, according to the staffing table, there were two companies of sausages. These fighters were engaged in slaughtering cattle and preparing sausages for the whole division. The mere presence of such mouths in each division indicates the processing of raw materials for the finished product locally and on an industrial scale.