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In the initial stages of Barbarossa, the regular German army troops would have been exposed more and more to Einsatzgruppen atrocities. While soldiers are expected to deal with the "normal" horrors of war, witnessing acts of organized murder, especially on women and children, must have been a shock to the individual soldier. Nazi indoctrination can lead you to hate a peoples, but to actually witness (or participate) in cold blooded killings on this scale, is something else.

So, were there any instances of German army units refusing to participate in these activities, or even trying to stop them?

Could there be any possibility of army groups revolting and attacking the SS units?

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