Hitler's Foreign Executioners (94 page)

3  Danish SS volunteer ‘Kaj’ who when interviewed said he wanted to urinate on the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. (Owner permitted use)

4  The ‘Death Dealer of Kovno’ Algirdą Antaną Pavalkį, photographed by German observers as he murdered Lithuanian Jews with an iron bar in the Lietukis Garage in Kovno. (Untraceable)

5  Recruitment poster for the Flemish SS ‘Langemarck’. The Waffen-SS volunteer thrusts his bayonet at a caricatured Jewish figure wearing a Union Jack and apparently dominating Great Britain. German anti-Semitism attributed British resistance to the influence of Jews. (AKG-images)

6  Adolf Hitler, Ribbentrop and other German dignitaries with Romanian ‘Legionary’ dictator Ion Antonescu, Munich, 10 June 1941. The Germans urged Antonescu to eliminate Romania’s Jewish population. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B03212, Scherl agency)

7  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, founder of the Romanian Legion of St Michael, the Iron Guard. Known as ‘the Captain’, Codreanu was said to resemble Hollywood actor Tyrone Power. (AKG-images)

8  The Iaį pogrom, July 1941, carried out by the Romanian army and police units with German connivance. Here Jewish victims lie by the side of Vasile Conta Street. (USHMM/ Serviciul Roman De Informatii)

9  The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, who fled to Berlin in 1941. (AKG-images)

10  Himmler greets the Grand Mufti, 1943. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101III-Alber-164–18A. Photographer: Kurt Alber)

11  The Grand Mufti with Bosnian Muslim SS recruit, November 1943. He urged the Bosniaks to ‘kill all Jews’. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146–1978–070–05A. Photographer: Mielke)

12  Bosnian Muslim recruits serving in the SS ‘Handschar’. (AKG-images)

13  German SD Einsatzgruppe (Special Task Force) member murdering Ukrainian Jews, near Vinnitsa in 1941. Waffen-SS troops and Reich Labour Service recruits look on. (USHMM, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, courtesy of Sharon Paquette)

14  A Ukrainian SS recruit attacking a Bolshevik caricature with bloody hands and knife. (Bundesarchiv, Plak 003–025–061)

15  Propaganda poster enticing Ukrainians to join the SS ‘Galizien’, 1943. Notice the SS inspector measuring the height of the hopeful volunteer. Height was a critical biological standard for the SS. (Bundesarchiv, Plak 003–025–059)