Franz Rademacher testified that the German Army was responsible for order in Serbia and had the authority to kill rebellious Jews by shooting.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
Source [4] quotes Rademacher's 1952 testimony before a German court that the Army was responsible for order in Serbia and had to kill rebellious Jews by shooting, which matches the claim's core. The claim's 'authority' wording and the post's dropped 'or not kill' qualifier are paraphrase differences, not contradictions, and the sources show no conflicting account of the testimony.
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… It, it doesn't make logical sense. Um, Rademacher was later tried, uh, in the Bundesrepublik, and it was a, it was a strange convergence of factors that led him to court. Um, his testimony was that, regardless of what was said or wasn't said, because some of the same testimony was introduced at his trial, you know, he said, quote, the Army was responsible for order in Serbia and had the authority to kill or not kill rebellious Jews by shooting, which is entirely plausible. And the Bundesrepublik court, I don't have the record in front of me, but I did read it thoroughly. I cannot find a substantive objection to what was alleged therein, you know. …
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Supports. Source [4] (Robinson, 'And the crooked shall be made straight') states that Rademacher gave testimony in 1952 before a German court that 'the Army was responsible for order in Serbia and had to kill rebellious Jews by shooting.'[1]
Supports. Source [7] (Wikipedia) reports that Rademacher was tried in West Germany in February 1952 for the murders he supervised in Serbia and was convicted, which places the testimony in the same proceeding.[2]
Context. Sources [4], [8], [9] and [10] place the 'shooting' remark in the Eichmann trial and Arendt's account, with Rademacher's Nuremberg-era note attributing to Eichmann the statement that the military would have to shoot the rebel Jews; this is the same subject from a different proceeding.[1][3][4][5]
Context. Sources [7] and [11] describe Rademacher's role in organizing mass killings of Serbian Jews in autumn 1941, which is consistent with the Army-shooting context the claim describes.[2][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 primary, 5 not rated
- 1And the crooked shall be made straightbard.edu · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 2Franz Rademacher - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3Hannah Arendtcdn.penguin.co.uk · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Untitled - Free-eBooks.netfree-ebooks.net · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Eichmann in Jerusalem—I | The New Yorkernewyorker.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6The Discovery Servicediscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk · not rated · cited for: context
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