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Einsatzgruppen[ a] ( German: [ˈaɪnzatsˌɡʁʊpm̩], lit. 'deployment groups'; [ 1] also ' task forces ') [ 2] were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The Einsatzgruppen had an integral role in ...
The Einsatzgruppen were SS mobile death squads, operating behind the front line in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.From 1941 to 1945, they murdered around 2 million people; 1.3 million Jews, up to 250,000 Romani, and around 500,000 so-called "partisans", people with disabilities, political commissars, Slavs, homosexuals and others.
Einsatzgruppen (German for "task forces", "deployment groups"; singular Einsatzgruppe; official full name Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD) were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II.
Parent agency. Schutzstaffel. SS-Totenkopfverbände(SS-TV; lit. 'Death's Head Units'[2]) was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitarySchutzstaffel(SS) organisation. It was responsible for administering the Nazi concentration campsand extermination campsfor Nazi Germany, among similar duties.[3] It was both the successor and expanded ...
The Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports ( OSR s), or ERM for the German: Die Ereignismeldung UdSSR (plural: Ereignismeldungen ), were dispatches of the Nazi death squads ( Einsatzgruppen ), which documented the progress of the Holocaust behind the German–Soviet frontier in the course of Operation Barbarossa, during World War II.
Approximately 3,000. Founder. Reinhard Heydrich. During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and ...
The Jäger Report is a tally sheet of actions by Einsatzkommando 3, including the Rollkommando Hamann killing squad. [1] The report keeps an almost daily running total of the murders of 137,346 people, the vast majority Jews, from 2 July 1941 to 25 November 1941. The report documents date and place of the massacres, number of victims and their ...
Right Wing Death Squad was the name of the smaller groups that participated in the white nationalist Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017. A phrase popularized by the ...