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He hunted Jews, Roma, and the “asocial” for the Nazi regime — yet in July 1944, this same man secretly joined the plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Arthur Nebe, head of Nazi Germany’s Criminal Police and commander of Einsatzgruppe B, personally oversaw the massacre of tens of thousands during the Holocaust and helped pioneer the use of gas vans for mass murder. But when Germany’s downfall seemed inevitable, he sided with the conspirators of the 20 July Plot — a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.
Caught between fanaticism and betrayal, Nebe fled, faked his own death, and was finally hanged with a meat hook at Plötzensee Prison in 1945.
Once hailed as a patriot, today he is remembered as both executioner and opportunist — a man with blood on his hands who turned against the monster he helped build.

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“From Mass Murderer to Traitor of the Führer: SS General Arthur Nebe”

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00:00Just before the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen, which were Nazi mobile death squads that had operated
00:07in Poland, were reformed under the command of Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Security Main Office.
00:14Arthur Nebbe volunteered to lead Einsatzgruppe B, an SS death squad in the Army Group Center rear area, in today's
00:22Belarus.
00:22Their task was to exterminate Jews and other undesirables, including Communists, Roman Sinti people, Asiatics, the Disabled, and psychiatric hospital
00:34patients in the conquered territories.
00:37The Einsatzgruppe also executed hostages and prisoners of war handed over by the German Army.
00:45Discover the full story on worldhistory.tv

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