re: #10 Pepi

LOL, of course, some anonymous commenter knows more about the political scientist (not a historian) Goldhagen than a bunch of historians. Riiight.

And no, when we talk specifically about the murder of Jews “huge manpower” was not required at all. The Aktion Reinhardt camps, for example, which killed about 1.3 million Jews were staffed with several dozens of SS-men and several hundred Soviet collaborators, mostly Ukrainians. Einsatzgruppen had about 3000 Germans - a bit too little more their gigantic task, true, but again they used local collaborators. So all in all there were several thousands participating in direct murder, and of course there were more that would participate indirectly, but no evidence that they were in the millions.