He acts correctly who fights ruthlessly and mercilessly with complete disregard for any personal surge of emotion."[17] Eliminating so-called "security" threats entailed the murder of captured Jews; 10,000 of whom GFP unit 721 killed from October 1941 through January 1942 in the Ukrainian areas around Khmil’nyk, Lityn, and Brailov.[18] To this end—in some places in the Ukraine—the GFP operated independently in shooting Jews.[19] The anti-Semitism of GFP members is typified by the observation of Unteroffizier Bergmayer, who in late March 1944, witnessing the deportations of Jews in northwestern Greece wrote,