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<blockquote>The sole goal of this schooling is to teach them simple arithmetic, nothing above the number 500; writing one's name; and the doctrine that it is divine law to obey the Germans. I do not think that reading is desirable.<ref>Heinrich Himmler, May 1940 from "Poles: Victims of the Nazi Era", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum</ref></blockquote>
[[File: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S73495, Oskar Dirlewanger.jpg|thumb|left|One of the German [[Oskar Dirlewanger|''soldiers'']] taming the [[Warsaw Uprising]], [[Oskar Dirlewanger]]. (SS-Unit)]].
As the highest commander in charge he looked after the execution of [[Operation Harvest Festival]] in district of Lublin, when during one day in November 1943 SS, Order Police (101st Police Battalion from Hamburg volunteered for this operation) and the [[Trawniki men|Ukrainian]] ''[[Sonderdienst]]'' shot to death in mass killings more than 83,000 Jews. Krüger's men, hand-in-hand with [[Order Police battalions]], ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' and [[Wehrmacht]] were conducting during a few years time, the genocide program of quelling guerrilla activity, so-called: "[[bandenbekämpfung|anti-partisan]]" fighting in the General Government. During these operations, which meant to be against Polish "bandits", as the Germans called partisans, the murders of women and children were carried out on a daily basis. For a help given to the partisans by local farmers and their families, the entire villages were burnt to the ashes with all inhabitants (so-called [[Pacification actions in German-occupied Poland|pacification action]]).
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Such "disciplinary" campaigns were a commonplace in Poland under German occupation - more than 300 Polish villages were destroyed (within the borders after 1945). In the most of cases, before the fire was set to the village, all the peasants were gathered in the biggest village building and burnt alive. Earlier, several grenades were thrown into the crowd.
[[File:Bundesarchiv R 165 Bild-244-48, Asperg, Deportation von Sinti und Roma.jpg|thumb|Deportations of German Romani from [[Baden-Württemberg]] to the east (mainly to the ghettos, labor or extermination camps in [[General Government|GG]])]]
Among other deeds committed by Krüger were: responsibility for eliminating rebellions in the extermination camps, providing victims for the medical experiments typically resulting in the death or permanent disability, setting up forced labour camps, the employment of police and SS in the deportations of Jews from ghettos in General Government to extermination camps.
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