Simferopol massacre and the Einsatzgruppen
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2026 7:07 am
As per usual I was receiving nonsense holocaust posts on Facebook which I tend to speed read and dismiss. Then this week one popped up about the Simferopol massacre. I read the post and then checked a little on the interweb thingy and found this summary on Wikipedia;
However back to Simferopol rather than this spreading into a whole post on the superhuman killing abilities of the very short of manpower Einsatzgruppen.
Some years ago I bought Rhodes 'Masters of Death' pile of poo. Having read it and discarded it into my book collection never to waste my time again on it, I picked it up and searched for Simferopol. I will admit I haven't churned through every page for mentions and references but have had a good look in the index and relevant sections of the book and found nothing, zero, de nada. Why would that be?
Werner Braune was the officer in charge who was subsequently tried and hanged for his involvement. He too is not mentioned on Rhodes' book.
Is this episode in holocaust invented history now doubted or is there another plausible reason for Rhodes not covering this event in his most wonderful tome?
I am not one to buy a lot of what I believe to be huge exaggerations about the Einsatzgruppen and their fabled mass executions of innocent jews etc behind the lines of the Barbarossa front. I have yet to figure out how so few killed so many and yet (as per usual) left little or no trace afterwards...The Simferopol Massacre was a massacre perpetrated by the Nazi unit of the Einsatzgruppen from December 9 to 13, 1941, against Ashkenazi, Krymchak, and Gypsy Jews in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, then in the Soviet Union. The killing spree left 12,300 dead[1].
However back to Simferopol rather than this spreading into a whole post on the superhuman killing abilities of the very short of manpower Einsatzgruppen.
Some years ago I bought Rhodes 'Masters of Death' pile of poo. Having read it and discarded it into my book collection never to waste my time again on it, I picked it up and searched for Simferopol. I will admit I haven't churned through every page for mentions and references but have had a good look in the index and relevant sections of the book and found nothing, zero, de nada. Why would that be?
Werner Braune was the officer in charge who was subsequently tried and hanged for his involvement. He too is not mentioned on Rhodes' book.
Is this episode in holocaust invented history now doubted or is there another plausible reason for Rhodes not covering this event in his most wonderful tome?