I would be interested to see where you found an article about the SS. Everything I've read has said a combination of this:
1. That the people doing a lot of the inefficient but very hands on killing were not hard core SS troops (the police unites were SS by default but were not made up of hard core SS members).
2. The early hard core units of SS men who were doing a lot of the hand on killing were having so many personnel problems (drunkenness, suicides, madness) that Himmler saw the need to both depersonalize and industrialize the killing.
3. Most camp guards, while members of the SS, were not what we think of as hard core German SS, but Lithuanians and others.
4. The worst jobs were given to the Jews because the SS leadership realized how mentally destructive that work was for the SS personnel.
The argument of how involved and how dedicated the regular German army was to the cause of Nazism and the policies of the Nazi party goes back and forth which each new book.
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1. That the people doing a lot of the inefficient but very hands on killing were not hard core SS troops (the police unites were SS by default but were not made up of hard core SS members).
2. The early hard core units of SS men who were doing a lot of the hand on killing were having so many personnel problems (drunkenness, suicides, madness) that Himmler saw the need to both depersonalize and industrialize the killing.
3. Most camp guards, while members of the SS, were not what we think of as hard core German SS, but Lithuanians and others.
4. The worst jobs were given to the Jews because the SS leadership realized how mentally destructive that work was for the SS personnel.
The argument of how involved and how dedicated the regular German army was to the cause of Nazism and the policies of the Nazi party goes back and forth which each new book.