http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-father14aug14,1,1956941.story?coll=la-home-headlinesThe Austrian documents also show that Gustav Schwarzenegger served with German Army units that saw some of the most brutal bloodshed of World War II, including the invasions of Poland and France and the German rampage through Russia and the siege of Leningrad.
As a military policeman, he appears to have been in theaters of the war where atrocities were committed by his army. But there is no way to know from the documents whether he played a role.
"He was in the thick of the battle during the most difficult times," said Michael Berenbaum, a Holocaust scholar who has written 14 books on the subject. "Clearly, he was in proximity to some of the most horrific military and nonmilitary killings. He was in the heart of hell."
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