I have been fighting for the SS for ten years now as an SS-Oberfuhrer and the commander of a police unit. Now I am volunteering to fight on the eastern front while Germany attacks the Soviet Union.
April 19, 1943
I am an SS officer for Germany to help fight against the Jews in the Holocaust. I am motivated to defeat the Jews any way possible because of my ruler; Hitler. He is showing us the correct way to live, and I am going to follow his lead. My role now is to command the Waffen-SS troops while we work to deport all of the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. Today is the day we have started the mass deportation of the jews; the day I like to call the “Great Operation.” This day was our first attempt of sending out all of the Jews to concentration camps. What I wasn't aware of was that the Jews were waiting for us. They were ready to fight us as soon as we attempted the mass deportation of the Warsaw Ghetto. They fought back hard so I ordered my men to retreat. We just finished our next attempt for getting the Jews to cooperate. We burned down all of the buildings in the Ghetto. The Jews finally backed down and payed more attention to the fires then to us. This was when we made our mark and deported the Jews to the extermination camp; Treblinka.Those of the Jews that remained are continuing to fight us from attics, and cellars.
May 8, 1943
We’ve finished our next attempt to deport all of the Jews. If we couldn’t get them out of the Ghetto, we just had to start killing them in the ghetto. We started using poison gas to kill the Jews. Most Jews were killed but still about 100 remained hidden in the sewers.
May 16, 1943
Finally, the ending of the “Great Operation” has come. We’ve blown up the Warsaw Synagogue and have won against the Jews uprising. I was prepared to fight these Jews until the very end. I wasn’t ready to be defeated by the Jews. Defeating the Jews will lead to bigger doors for me and the people of Germany can feel a little safer today knowing many Jews have died.
Later in 1943
I am now finished working to defeat the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. After I had finished, I was made SS and political leader of Greece. Now I am promoted to the rank of SS Gruppenfuhrer and I have been sent to serve for the Twelfth Army District in the Reich until the end of the war.
July 1951
The war is finally over. Today I was tried in the Warsaw district court for war crimes. I was found guilty. Since I lead as commander of the Waffen-SS troops, I am being sentenced to death for the mass killing of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. I will be executed in Warsaw on September 8th, 1951. It’s disappointing that I am being put to death for what I believed was best to keep Germany safe, but I will always remember that I fought well for my country.
(Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Perpetrator Jurgen Stroop, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising)
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