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Erna Petri: Wife of an SS Officer Who Executed Six Jewish Children
Erna Petri was the wife of an SS officer who became a willing participant in Nazi crimes during World War II. Her story remains one of the most disturbing examples of how ordinary civilians could become involved in the Holocaust and the machinery of mass murder.
Born in 1920 in the Weimar Republic, Erna Petri married Horst Petri, an ambitious member of the Waffen-SS. When he was assigned to manage SS agricultural estates in occupied Poland, she entered a world shaped by racial ideology, forced labor, and violence. The estates in Galicia formed part of Nazi plans for Germanization and were…
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