Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads

Episode 01

Mass Graves (June-August 1941)

Apr 16, 2009 · 46 min

This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.

Episode 02

Judenfrei (September-December 1941)

Apr 16, 2009 · 48 min

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

Episode 03

The Pyres (1942–1943)

Apr 23, 2009 · 42 min

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

Episode 04

The Reckoning (1943–1947)

Apr 23, 2009 · 47 min

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.