

Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
Overview
This documentary series examines the Einsatzgruppen, Nazis responsible for the mass murder of Jews, Romani and Soviet prisoners in Eastern Europe.
Created By
Michaël Prazan
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This documentary series examines the Einsatzgruppen, Nazis responsible for the mass murder of Jews, Romani and Soviet prisoners in Eastern Europe.
Michaël Prazan
Lithuanian Witness, Self
Lithuanian Witness, Self
Lithuanian Witness, Self
Ukrainian Witness, Self

April 16, 2009 • 46m
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.

April 16, 2009 • 48m
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.

April 23, 2009 • 42m
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.

April 23, 2009 • 47m
After being judged at the Nuremberg trials, the majority of those responsible for the murder of nearly 1.5 million Jews would walk free in the 1950s.