SS Einsatzgruppen: Nazi Death Squads, 1939-1945

The Einsatzgruppen carried out mass executions across occupied Soviet territories, establishing brutal state-sponsored murder on a scale that defined Nazi atrocity.

In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Operational groups of the German Security Service, SD, followed into the Baltic and the Black Sea areas. Their orders...