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Remember the tragic massacre of Jews in the Polish city of Krakow in the movie "Schindler's List"? That night, the SS in Krakow carried out a thorough "cleanup" of the ghetto, on the one hand, the fire from the muzzle of the SS guns and the blood of the Jews, and the German officers leisurely playing the piano at the scene of the killing, this picture is unforgettable, countless Jews were slaughtered on the spot, more people were sent to death camps, the direct commander of all this is SS Security In Krakow Commander Singht.
Born in April 1903 to an ordinary family in Leipzig to a winemaker father, Ginger Dropped out of school to become a child labour gardener before he finished elementary school, left school to become a child labour gardener, and this experience engraved a deep nationalist imprint on his young mind and had a huge impact on his future code of conduct.
After the war, Singer returned to school to continue his studies, and during high school he joined a peripheral organization of the Freedom Corps, beginning to deal with politics, and in 1923 he joined the Nazis because he felt that nazi ideas were very in tune with his nationalist ideas. After graduating from high school in 1924, Singer joined the army, but he secretly joined the SA, leading to his expulsion from the army.
At this time, Singert suddenly became not interested in politics, but became fascinated by law, he was admitted to the University of Leipzig, majoring in law and economics, after graduation he was admitted to the bar, in 1929 he received a doctorate in law, and found a job in the court.
After working for a few years, when the Nazis came to power, Singer discovered that having a Nazi identity would go a long way toward his career, so he joined the SS in early 1933, and soon he was rewarded as the head of a post office in Erfurt. Singer then joined the SS Security Service and in 1935 resigned from the post office to become a full-time Gestapo.
He was mainly responsible for the affairs of the press, the church, etc. at the Gestapo, and later served as the police chief in Münster, which was also the period of his "career", and his rank was also high, from the second rank of assault squadron leader (lieutenant) to the promotion to the rank of district captain (equivalent to brigadier general) in 1940.
Former site of the Gestapo headquarters in Krakow.
After the outbreak of World War II, Singer served as commander of the Dresden Security Service, and in 1941 he was sent to Krakow, Poland, to serve as the chief of the security department and the security police, where Singh was guilty of serious war crimes. As soon as Singer arrived in Krakow, several special operations teams were formed to actively prepare for the killing of Jews. His men evaluated the doctor as intelligent, strong, tall, and energetic. He liked to drink, and when drunk, he often "beat" and "scolded" his subordinates, of course, this was not serious, but a joke, but this performance made his subordinates more afraid, and Singer used such behavior to establish his absolute authority.
After the German attack on the Soviet Union, Singer launched an operation against the Jews in Krakow, and from July to September 1941, more than 10,000 Jews were slaughtered by the SS, and Singer demanded that every subordinate must be personally involved in the killing, that any SS officers and soldiers who did not carry out the killing order would be shot, and that cowardly soldiers who were shot at random by junior officers would be protected by him and would not be tried by a military court for shooting soldiers without permission.
On January 20, 1942, Singer and Langer attended the Wannsee Conference as commander of the Einsatzgruppen, a meeting presided over by Heydrich, where Nazi Germany's Final Solution to the Jews was introduced, and the billowing black smoke from the crematorium was about to envelop the skies of Europe.
Krakow, which had more than 70,000 Jews before World War II, was driven into the quarantine area by the SS, which was previously inhabited by only 3,000 people, and it was conceivable that so many people were crammed in at once. However, this was not the worst outcome, after the Wanlakes Conference Singer went on a killing spree against Jews, and although Schindler saved some Jews from being killed in the name of recruiting workers, he only saved 1200 lives with all he had, and most of the Jews in Krakow were slaughtered, and only about 3,000 survived the war.
In July 1944, Singer was transferred to the head of the SS Security Service and the Security Police in the Netherlands, remember the Dutch SS officer Lauter, who was attacked by the guerrillas and pretended to die? He was Singer's immediate superior, and after Lauter's attack, Singer took brutal repressive measures, ordering the execution of 117 political prisoners at the site of Lauter's attack and 90 hostages elsewhere in the Netherlands as retaliation for the resistance.
A German soldier who refused to massacre civilians in defiance.
In the process of executing the hostages, something unexpected happened to the SS, a German medic named Ernst Grevi, refusing to shoot at the civilians, he took off his steel helmet, stood in the line of hostages who were about to be executed, and fought to the death against this anti-human massacre, Grevi was immediately shot by the SS, and none of the hostages were spared, all killed. After Lauter was injured, Singer became the de facto supreme commander of the Dutch SS.
The site of the former Schindler factory.
Singh also ordered the shooting and killing of an American pilot while in the Netherlands, and on November 21, 1944, an American bomber was hit and the crew parachuted, and U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Ameliko Galle landed in the courtyard of a villa near Enschede, which unfortunately was the headquarters of the SS and the Gestapo, and Lieutenant Galle threw himself into the net. Singert did not treat prisoners of war in accordance with international conventions, he ordered the American pilots to be shot, and two SS soldiers carried out his orders, shooting Galle and quietly burying the body to cover up evidence of the shooting of prisoners of war, however, the matter was still exposed after the war.
U.S. military pilot Lieutenant Galle.
After germany's defeat, Singer was arrested by the Allies and subsequently handed over to the Dutch for trial, where he was sentenced to death by hanging for war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc., and on May 16, 1946, Singert was hanged.
Singh was hanged.
In 2019, while a renovation project was being carried out somewhere in Brest, Russia, a huge mass grave was excavated containing the bones of more than 1,000 Jews, which was directly related to Singht, where he led a special operations team to massacre more than 5,000 Jews.
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