the "intolerable situation" of the order to start slaughtering Jewish women and children, then resigned when he could not stop what was happening. Schulz was sentenced to 20 years in prison instead. This sentence was reviewed by the "Peck Panel" and commuted to 15 years in prison in January 1951. Schulz was paroled on 9 January 1954. He died in 1981. In an interview, Schulz said that serving in the Einsatzgruppen was entirely voluntary:"I never knew of any cases where members or heads of the Einsatzkommandos acted in the same way as I did. I believe that things in Russia would never have turned out as they did had a few heads of the Einsatzkommandos and Einsatzgruppen declared that they could not carry out these liquidations. The way I see it, the same applies... to the Wehrmacht commanders in whose areas of command the liquidations were carried out of the avalanche could have still been checked if a field marshal or the commanding officer of any army group had intervened. I do not know of or recall any order that stated that SS chiefs or members of the SD or the police would be sent to concentration camps if they refused to carry out an order. I also never heard of such an order during the course of the conversations I had on the subject or indeed from rumors." References 1900 births 1981 deaths Military personnel from Berlin 20th-century Freikorps personnel Einsatzgruppen personnel German people convicted of crimes against humanity German Army personnel of World War I Gestapo personnel People convicted by the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals Reich Security Main Office personnel SS-Brigadeführer Holocaust perpetrators in Ukraine Holocaust perpetrators in Russia