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Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa
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Is it possible that Hitler gave a general order to kill all Jews
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50,000 Soviet Jews are to be killed. 500,000 were to be killed in the next four months
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Hitler issued a secret directive to his Army High Command
Insisted that the 'Bolshevik/Jewish intelligentsia' in the USSR 'must be eliminated' in the same way that the Polish elite had been annihilated -
Army directives proclaimed
"Bolshevism is the deadly enemy of the National Socialist German people...This struggle requires ruthless and energetic action the total elimination of all active or passive resistance -
Army leaders ordered that political commissars were to be shot after being taken prisonerr
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Heydrich issued an order that 'all Jews' Russian prisoners war were to be executed by the SS