Romanian fascists literally butchered hundreds of Jews in a parody of Judaism’s kosher butchering

Militant anticommunists sometimes tormented and massacred Jews with a sick sense of humor that would have made even the Joker blush. This included parodying or misappropriating aspects from Judaism. For example, quoting Colin Evans’s The Casebook of Forensic Detection:

To describe the events in Bucharest in 1941 as “religious matters” was stretching incredulity to the breaking point. On January 21—St. Valerian’s Day—hordes of green‐shirted members of the Iron Guard, Romania’s virulently pro‐[Reich] political party, scythed through the Jewish quarter of Bucharest, laying waste to everyone and everything. The [chaos] lasted three days and left almost six thousand dead.

An eyewitness wrote, “Perhaps the most horrifying single episode was the ‘kosher butchering’ of more than 200 Jews in the municipal slaughterhouse. The Greenshirts forced them to undress and led them to the chopping block, where they cut their throats in a horrible parody of the traditional Jewish methods of slaughtering fowl and livestock.” [The bodies were ‘then left to hang on meat hooks.’]

(Emphasis added.)