sentences:  By the end of the war, they had killed around two million, including about 1.3 million Jews and up to a quarter of a million Roma.According to Wolfram Wette, the Germany army took part in these shootings as bystanders, photographers and active shooters; to justify their troops' involvement, army commanders would describe the victims as "hostages", "bandits" and "partisans".Local populations helped by identifying and rounding up Jews, and by actively participating in the killing.