Why would I look into something I don't care about? Especially since Team holocaust has said it doesn't matter if eyewitness testimony is accurate or truthful?
First, you have expended an awful lot of words, for some purpose, on a topic you supposedly don't care about - even concocting erroneous theories about it and making up what you call "Team Holocaust" in the process. Second, no one has made an argument that eyewitness testimony need not be accurate - since you allege this, show where someone wrote that. At the same time, you hoaxsters have demonstrated your willingness to lie about dates, make claims without backing them up, and even doctoring witness statements.
The Jaeger report is allegedly a report of Einsatzgruppen activity, right? Why were the Einsatzgruppen created? What was their mission?
The Jaeger Report is not alleged; it is a report on the activities of a commando and its associated squads, written by SS-Standartenfuehrer Karl Jaeger, commander Einsatzkommando 3, under the command of Einsatzgruppe A, whose leader, SS-Brigadeführer Walter Stahlecker, filed a report on the activities of EG-A in the Baltics, consolidating information for Lithuania from the Jaeger report (
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=61055).
The Einsatzgruppen were first created IIRC to operate in the Sudetenland crisis, where two were formed in case of an attack on Germany; no attack forthcoming, they were assigned to operate within Czechoslovakia, confiscating documents and arresting up to 6000 Czechs, in Aktion Gitter, targeting people who might oppose the German occupation; these were mostly leftists and Germans who'd fled to Prague, that is, Czechs thought possibly to be politically dangerous to Reich ambitions in Czechoslovakia. Several thousand such people were arrested with many expelled from the country and many sent to concentration camps. The second commander of the security police concerned, installed I believe in spring 1939, was named Walter Stahlecker.
Einsatzgruppen were also formed for the invasion of Poland that fall, where 7 EGs with 2700 men operated at the outset. In September Heydrich stated the goal that "the leading elements of Polish society should be rendered harmless" and clarified in October that to do this his men were carrying out a "liquidation of leading Poles" that should conclude by November. The formal mission of the EGs was to act against "elements hostile to the Reich and anti-German in enemy territory behind the front line." Heydrich described their mission as "extremely radical" and said that they would "render impotent" the "leading stratum in Poland." Before the attack, Germans estimated that up to 30,000 Poles would be arrested and sent to concentration camps. In the line with this, the EGs took action against intellectual leaders, Catholic clergy, aristocrats, and Jews thought to represent the possible leaders of opposition to the German occupation and whose names had been listed by the SD. Already in Poland the lines between saboteur/partisan/Franc-Tireur and intellectual/clergy/Jew were being blurred by the Nazis. The EG leaders were given some latitude on exact liquidation methods, which did not stop with arresting those on the "enemies" lists; many suspects were shot on the spot, without investigation, let alone arrest and trial. Often, the EGs they worked with the Selbstschutz, armed units recruited from among local ethnic Germans. Using the Bromberg incident as pretext, they carried out a far-ranging action in October called the Intelligentsia Operation, murdering 1000s of teachers, officials, clergy, landowners, members of nationalist groups, and Jews - but also including asocials, prostitutes, and Gypsies. They also supported Wachsturmbann Eimann in murdering almost 8000 so-called incurables taken from mental hospitals in a Polish extension of T-4. The actions of Heydrich's EGs in Poland were so egregious that Wehrmacht leaders (yes, Blaskowitz among them) protested the atrocities - taking their complaints to von Brauchitsch and directly to Himmler as well. EGs also operated in the Balkans in spring 1941, arresting emigres, saboteurs, terrorists, Communists, and Jews.
Third, Einsastzgruppen were formed for Operation Barbarossa. The framework for the invasion of the USSR and the war was laid down by Hitler himself in early spring when he told his generals that the war would be a clash between two ideologies requiring the annihilation of the leadership of the USSR, defined as the Judeo-Bolshevik intelligentsia (in order to crush the USSR and take over its western areas). As early as February 1941 Keitel (head of the Wehrmacht High Command) was describing the role of Himmler's units as exercising "special responsibilities in the zone of army operations" that came "at the Fuhrer's request" to help prepare the country for German rule.
Another aspect in background of the mission of the EGs was the military's concerns not to be implicated in the "radical" nature of the special tasks targeting leadership groups and others in the Soviet Union; therefore, formal agreements between Heydrich and the military leadership were reached. These agreements set down guidelines for the EGs in the campaign against the USSR. The March draft agreement discussed "identification and combating of subversive activities against the Reich" and that Heydrich would have authority to order "executive measures against the civilian population," although, again, latitude would be given to commanders of the EGs as to precise methods for carrying out these measures. The EGs would act in the rear areas on their own responsibility but with support from the Wehrmacht. Relevant planning documents include a request from Goering for Heydrich to list targeted groups of victims so that the army leaders would "understand who they will be putting up against the wall." The final agreement between Himmler and the army was signed in April. Heydrich briefed EG leaders (Walter Stahlecker, as noted, being the leader of EG-A for the Baltics) in two meetings in June. Postwar testimony is unclear on how the targeted groups were described. Heydrich also wrote a summary of his orders, which described the EGs task as "politically pacifying" occupied territory by means of "ruthless severity"; he singled out some Jews as a special group to be targeted, naming "all Jews in the service of the Party and state" (this imprecisely defined group would be broader than on face value given Nazi ideological perceptions of Jews and their concept of Judeo-Bolshevism - but it is not yet targeting all Jews or even all male Jews). Heydrich wrote of the targeted potential enemies (including Comintern officials, CPSU officials, even lower level CPSU operatives, people's commissars, demagogues, saboteurs and partisans, radical elements) being "eliminated." The special tasks of the EGs in Operation Barbarossa, as in Poland but more radically in Barbarossa, were to eliminate groups of people who presented real and potential or suspected threats to the German occupation, and these groups included Jews, with the question of which Jews expanding through time. I have written a recent previous post on the way in which these political special tasks assigned the EGs were carried out and expanded once the invasion took place and operations began.
I didn't realize these people were different people with different ranks in different armies who lived at different times. I also just found that Lynndie England doesn't have a penis and Jaeger didn't have a cell phone. Of course there's no comparison. In the world of holocaust scholarship, the only time valid comparisons between different objects can be made is when the different objects are the same.
Your sense of humor, I see, is every bit as poor as your skill in making comparisons. No, you aren't funny or clever, and your lack of a sense of humor doesn't excuse your trying to compare the authority of two individuals with a rank just above private with a commander of a special task force ordered to eliminate Communists and Jews deemed threats to German occupation and given responsibility to recommend, plan, and carry out actions, including murders, against these targeted groups over a broad region.
What are you trying to say? That Graner and England are evidence of the American plan to exterminate all the Arabs?
Don't be so dense. I am making it obvious, based on rank, responsibility, nature of crimes, numbers of victims, etc, that your comparison of the EGs to Abu Ghraib was stupid.
So, we still haven't heard from you on how the Jaeger Report is supposed to have described anti-partisan campaigns, was, you say, written in the language of ethnic cleansing, or allegedly represented a small-scale rogue operation. I was very specific in explaining why you were wrong on these points.
Last, your continued fixation on Pesye Schloss's shoes, to the detriment of your stating your views on all the evidence for mass murder at Ponar, is making you look dumb and dumber. I'm not going to repeat all the arguments about the GP action, which you also continue to ignore in order to harp on one point, taken out of the context of the diverse evidence, but I am going to ask you again why, other than lack of interest, you can't seem to compare the sources for this action.
