operations throughout occupied poland and they manned the killing centers in occupied poland including treblinka. the men essentially became the manpower for the ss. they were the men who did the bloodiest jobs in occupied poland and the jews who survived describes a man as more brutal and blood thirsty than members of the ss. these were men who essentially became the foot soldiers of the third reich and it became their base. this is where they were armed, this is where they were trained and this is where they were issued deployment orders to go across occupied poland and helped the ss annihilate the jews. these were the men who did the bloodiest jobs in occupied poland and trazegnies was essentially a school for mass murder in occupied poland set up by the ss. in fact one of the historians in the book called the men of trazegnies the foot soldiers of the third reich. they were often known by the jews as the men wearing white coats and black hats. some village survivors called them ukrainian because some of the men were from ukraine or that region but there were many many others lithuania and la