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Although the term "death squad" was not widely used until the activities of such groups became widely known in Central and South America during the 1970s and 80s, death squads have been employed under different guises throughout history.
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 trial (officially, The United States of America vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al.) was the ninth of the twelve trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity that the US authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. These twelve trials were all held before US military courts, not ...
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.
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.
Capital punishment. Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading[ 1] (from the French fusil, rifle ), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are usually readily available and a gunshot to a vital organ, such as the brain or ...
The death squads committed the vast majority of the murders and massacres during the civil war from 1979 to 1992 and were heavily aligned with the United States-backed government. [1] [2] [3] According to the Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights (PDDH), death squads remain active in El Salvador. The PDDH registered 25 extrajudicial ...
South Carolina just became the fourth state to revive the firing squad. All it does is spotlight the futile search for a humane way to execute people. Return of firing squads shows death penalty ...