The Jewish friend of Field Marshall von Reichenau

[00:00:00]Vala Carl Ernst Agust van Reichenau leading the German sixth army was a war criminal. The massacre of Barbara took place in territory under his command with his full knowledge and cooperation as did tens if not hundreds of other massacres. On the 10th of October 1941, he issued the following order, which has become known as the severity order or even the Reichenau order, which commands his troops to murder.

[00:00:36]The order, which once more resorts to the same conspiracy theories that the Nazis like to pedal, claimed that the German soldier was an avenger for all the bestialities ex inflicted on German and related nationalities and the German soldier must fully understand the necessity of the harsh but just atonement for Jewish subhumanity.

[00:01:02]He ordered that Soviet citizens not be permitted to eat at the military field kitchens nor given anything anywhere. He forbade the troops to put out burning buildings unless they were needed for troop accommodation and ordered the killing of the male population in those areas that partisan attacks took place. Reichenau's superior was Field Marshall Ger von Runstead. He showed his support by saying he completely agreed and sent out a circular to all of the army generals under his command urging them to do the same and to impress upon the troops the need to kill Jews. Strangely enough, when interrogated after the war, he forgot all about this. At the same time as von Reichenau was ordering the murder of tens of thousands of Jews, he had a Jewish friend in the German capital. His wife Alex had a sister called Maria. Maria was hiding Hans Hershel, the former editor of the avantgard literary magazine Das Jike, which means the triangle. Apparently, Von Reicher now liked hands, and when in Berlin, he would pop round to have several glasses of his favorite drink, Turk's blood, a half and half mixture of Burgundy and champagne. Nonetheless, he warned Maria that if she were ever caught, not even he would be able to protect her from the Gestapo.

[00:02:48]Maria later hid two more Jewish people in her flat and survived the war. She later went on to marry Hans