Holocaust Perpetrators Were Textbook Serial Killer

To understand the Holocaust, you must (obviously) understand its perpetrators. To understand anyone, you must profile him (all Holocaust perpetrators were male). Nazis were criminals (no question about that); consequently, to understand their obviously criminal minds, you must use the tools of criminal profiling.

Fortunately, these tools are (1) available; and (2) are very much applicable to Holocaust perpetrators. Available because the capable tools for profiling serial kills have been around for decades and applicable because all Holocaust perpetrators were serial killers (serial murderers).

They were highly unusual serial killers because (1) there were half a dozen principal Holocaust perpetrators (Hitler, G;ring, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann and Hans Frank); and (2) because they were serial mass murderers.

However, they were still serial killers – and the Holocaust was still a serial homicide (serial mass homicide – but still a serial homicide). Consequently, the Holocaust must be investigated (like just any other serial homicide), not studied.

When you realize that Holocaust perpetrators were (psychologically) serial killers – just like Ted Bundy and his “colleagues” – you will immediately understand why the Holocaust happened the way it happened.

You will understand it because practically all serial killers share the same dynamics: they escalate (“graduate” from torturing animals to petty crimes to more serious crimes to very serious crimes such as rape); then snap (and start killing); then escalate (“graduate”) again to more and more vicious murders.

And that’s exactly what happened to the Nazis (some group dynamics was obviously involved). First and foremost, to leaders of the “Holocaust Project”: Hitler, G;ring, Himmler, Heydrich and Hans Frank.

First, they escalated both in strategy (from forced emigration to deportation to inhospitable places) and in tactics (to a more and more severe persecution of Jews). Then – sometime in early April of 1941 – they snapped and decided to commence mass murder of the Jews (initially, just men of military age in the Soviet Union).

This snap was obviously triggered by an external event: On December 18, 1940, Adolf Hitler gave his generals the order to prepare for an offensive war against the Soviet Union the following year. Then they escalated again: from shooting all male Jews they graduated to murdering all Jews in the Soviet Union… and then escalated to murdering all Jews in all territories controlled by Germany and its allies.