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How Did Jeckln Kill

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Friedrich Jeckeln, born on February 2, 1895 in Baden, Germany was held responsible for the murder of over 200,000 lives during the Holocaust. Very little is none about his early life, but it is known that Jeckeln served in the German army during the First World War, where he was awarded the Iron Cross and the Wound badge in black. After the war he became a farm manager, and married into the Jewish family of the estate at which he worked. The marriage did not last long due to his alcohol problems, but it took only five years for him to become married again. In the same year as his marriage, 1929, Jeckeln joined the Nazi party, and became a leader in the “Schutzstaffel” or the Nazi party’s paramilitary defense corps. Among this corp Jeckeln escalated the speed of murder. Jeckeln’s method of killing became known …show more content…

The victims were stuffed into a dug out pit where men with submachine guns would systematically shoot them in the head once while they lay face down. Those who weren’t killed on immediately were left to suffer from suffocation and being buried alive as the pit was refilled. During Jeckeln’s interrogation and subsequent trial, he was forced to catalogue his crimes. Jeckeln confessed to being involved with the murder of 25,000 in a ghetto in Riga, Latvia, and another 88,000 jews at the Salaspils concentration camp. He was also involved in the murder of 200,000 in Ukraine, the forced deportation of about 100,000 German workers, the burning of a unknown number of Soviet villages and the mass arrests of many its citizens. Although Jeckeln confessed to the murders, he never felt he was guilty of any crime. He denied any allegation of crime and stated the acts were part of war therefore completely legitimate. On February 3 Jeckeln was tried at a dock in Riga, where he was accused for the mass murder of Jews in Reichskommissariat Ukraine and Reichskommissariat

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