Hillgruber maintained that the slaughter of about 2.2 million defenceless men, women and children for the reasons of racist ideology cannot possibly be justified, and that those German generals who claimed that the "Einsatzgruppen" were a necessary anti-partisan response were lying.
Hillgruber maintained that the slaughter of about 2.2 million defenceless men, women and children for the reasons of racist ideology cannot possibly be justified, and that those German generals were lying. The "Einsatzgruppen" were a necessary anti-partisan response. This was what these German generals claimed.