Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

HANS ADOLF PRUTZMANN
He was a senior SS police officer and was a Obergruppen fuhrer during WW II. He served at Latvia and was under Heinrich Himmler. Latvian Jews were put to death in great numbers.  He was a weakling in the struggle  between  manipulations of seniors Nazi officers.The problem was with the elimination of Jews. Himmler wanted theses Jews to be outright put to death while Rossenburg another senior SS  officer wanted a portion of the Jews to be kept for forced  labor.  Himmler replaced Prutzmann with another SS  senior officer  Friedrich Jackeln who was a merciless killer and  implemented his plan of killing the Jews and was called Jackeln method. 10000 Jews were killed in one day, a record. After the war Prutzmann was arrested by Soviets. But he committed suicide in custody.


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