Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
Season 1
2009 · 4 episodes

1. Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
2009-04-16 · 46m
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.

2. Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
2009-04-16 · 48m
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.

3. The Pyres (1942–1943)
2009-04-23 · 42m
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.

4. The Reckoning (1943–1947)
2009-04-23 · 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.
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