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[[Race]] and race [[hatred]] are at the core of [[Nazi]] [[ideology]]. And now the Nazis had millions of their [[Slavic]], [[Bolshevik]], and [[Jewish]] enemies at their mercy. [[German]]s had been told for generations that [[Russia]] was [[barbaric]] and the Nazis added layers of [[anti-semitism]]. There was a fundamental belief that the Soviet Union and Russia was an alien and inferior [[culture]]. It came from the idea that the inhabitants are not individuals. They don't have individual [[conscience]]. They don't have an individual [[soul]]. They don't have [[art]]istic depth. They've been hammered into a [[collective]] under the blows of [[Soviet]] rule. And so the only way to treat them was also as a simple collective.

[[Race]] and race [[hatred]] are at the core of [[Nazi]] [[ideology]]. And now the Nazis had millions of their [[Slavic]], [[Bolshevik]], and [[Jewish]] enemies at their mercy. [[German]]s had been told for generations that [[Russia]] was [[barbaric]] and the Nazis added layers of [[anti-semitism]]. There was a fundamental belief that the Soviet Union and Russia was an alien and inferior [[culture]]. It came from the idea that the inhabitants are not individuals. They don't have individual [[conscience]]. They don't have an individual [[soul]]. They don't have [[art]]istic depth. They've been hammered into a [[collective]] under the blows of [[Soviet]] rule. And so the only way to treat them was also as a simple collective.

More than half of the six million [[Jews]] exterminated in [[Holocaust]] were murdered by what scholars now refer to as the [[Holocaust by bullet]]. Indeed, the industrial scale [[mass murder]] in death camps by gassing was seen by the [[Nazi]] leadership as more humane toward [[SS]] soldiers tasked with carry out the murderous [[policy]] due to the deleterious psychological effects of having to look their innocent victims in the eye before killing them.

More than half of the six million [[Jews]] exterminated in [[Holocaust]] were murdered by what scholars now refer to as the [[Holocaust by bullet]]. Indeed, the industrial scale [[mass murder]] in death camps by gassing was seen by the [[Nazi]] leadership as more humane toward [[SS]] soldiers tasked with carrying out the murderous [[policy]] due to the deleterious psychological effects of having to look their innocent victims in the eye before killing them.

[[Einsatzgruppen]] squads began to carry out mass shootings immediately following the June 22, 1941 invasion of the [[Soviet Union]] in the last week of June 1941.<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1939-1941/operation-barbarossa Operation Barbarossa | Holocaust Encyclopedia]</ref>  

[[Einsatzgruppen]] squads began to carry out mass shootings immediately following the June 22, 1941 invasion of the [[Soviet Union]] in the last week of June 1941.<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1939-1941/operation-barbarossa Operation Barbarossa | Holocaust Encyclopedia]</ref>