Einsatzgruppen (German for `task forces`,{sfn|LEO Dictionary} `deployment groups`;{sfn|Encyclopaedia Britannica} 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 Wo...
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mission groups, or "task forces". Einsatzgruppen were battalion-sized, mobile killing units made up of SiPo, SD or SS Special Action Groups under the command of the RSHA. They followed the Wehrmacht into occupied territories of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. These units were supported by units of the uniformed German Order Police (Orpo) and a...
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Special-operation units that were death squads under the command of the RSHA and followed the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front to engage in the systematic killing of mostly civilians, including: Jews, communists, intellectuals, and others.
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(from the article `Himmler, Heinrich`) ...the Soviet Union in June 1941, Himmler was entrusted with the administration of the conquered territory with the goal of eliminating the Soviet ... ...on September 1, 1939. Soon afterward Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann began organizing the first deportations of Jews from Germany and Austria to ... ...
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German extermination squads of World War II. Einsatzgruppen were established as four special
SS formations which followed up the invasion of the USSR 1941, charged with the extermination of Jews,...
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Mobile death squad of the SS that followed the German army, executing Jewish residents as the squad moved through the Soviet Union; victims were shot and buried in mass graves.
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Mobile killing units of the SS that followed the German army into Poland and the Soviet Union.
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