The situation is less clear with regards to reported " lynchings " in Germany . Nazi propaganda sometimes tried to depict state-sponsored violence as spontaneous lynchings . The most notorious instance of this was " Kristallnacht " , which the government portrayed as the result of " popular wrath " against Jews , but it was carried out in an organised and planned manner , mainly by SS men . Similarly , the approximately 150 confirmed murders of surviving crew members of crashed Allied aircraft in revenge for what Nazi propaganda called " Anglo-American bombing terror " were chiefly conducted by German officials and members of the police or the Gestapo , although civilians sometimes took part in them . The execution of enemy aircrew without trial in some cases had been ordered by Hitler personally in May 1944 . Publicly it was announced that enemy pilots would no longer be protected from " public wrath " . There were secret orders issued that prohibited policemen and soldiers from interfering in favor of the enemy in conflicts between civilians and Allied forces , or prosecuting civilians who engaged in such acts . In summary , Lynching of members of the Turkish Armed Forces occurred in the aftermath of the 2016 Turkish '' coup d'état '' attempt
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