Einsatzgruppen

The creation of the einsatzgruppen started one of the first ever genocides in history, by the development of groups that would literally go door to door murdering minorities. With over a million confirmed kills, the Einsatzgruppen contributed to over fifteen percent of people who were killed in the genocide alone. With the technologies and masterminds behind the operation, it truly seemed like nothing could stop this destructive force. The killing squads jump started even concentration camps and other killing methods used in the Holocaust, this event was truly entirely their fault. The Einsatzgruppen were groups of people in Hitler’s ranks in the Holocaust who would hunt down minorities and killed them. They had many other tasks besides just…

There had been much conflict and tension between the troops and the Einsatzgruppen about the latter’s task in the conquered areas, army officials were worried that exposing their men to such violence could possibly endanger troop discipline and SS commanders were frustrated that they could not properly carry out their assigned tasks. After the military success of France the Wehrmacht Generals were more willing to listen to their perceived genius Führer and turned from animosity with the…

The Einsatzgruppen murdered an estimated 1.5 million Jews in large-and small-scale operations. Einsatzgruppen was mostly made up of the SS and volunteered German policeman. Among their ranks were both conscripts and volunteers. Each division was comprised of several companies or platoons and contained between 700 and 1,000 men. The Einsatzgruppen divided into four battalion sized groups A,B,C,D.“ Einsatzgruppen came directly to the home communities of Jews and massacred them”(United States…

holocaust began. A new special action squad, or Einsatzgruppen, was formed. It was made up of Nazi SS units and police. They were also aided by residents of regions the Nazis had previously taken over. Einsatzgruppen (which means deployment groups in German) was a unit of the Nazi special forces. It was composed of members of the SS, the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police), and the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police). They acted as mobile killing units during the invasion of Poland in 1939, and…

The mind of a perpetrator is a subject that has fascinated historians, resulting in the study to try and understand these killers. While books on top Nazis such as Himmler and Heydrich are more prevalent when trying to explain the mind behind the Holocaust, Alex Kay 's book, The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990, looks to shed light on the mindset and conduct behind a mid/ lower level perpetrator. Basing the primary research of his book on archival records,…

However, he mainly focused on eliminating the Jewish community (USHMM). In doing so, he established action groups called Einsatzgruppen. “Einsatzgruppen is a German term that was first used for Nazi police intelligence units working with the German army after the invasion of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. When Germany invaded Soviet Russia in June 1941, the term was applied to the mobile SS killing squads that traveled with German forces” (Wigoder, 117). Einsatzgruppen was the active…

Killers On The Move By December 1, 1941, the Einsatzgruppen had killed over 1.3 million Jewish people and other innocent people. One of the worst ‘deeds’ that they had committed was killing thirty-four thousand Jews on September 29 through the 30 of 1941. The Einsatzgruppen was composed of thousands of the Nazi regime who were highly trained and deadly soldiers. The einsatzgruppen went from town to town killing thousands of innocent people. Don’t you wonder how was the Einsatzgruppen first…

Throughout the history of the world, hatred and prejudice have always existed and it always will, but the Holocaust took that hatred and prejudice to a whole new, more extreme level. The Holocaust began in 1933 and lasted for roughly 12 years, and debatably the biggest tragedy in world history. It is so widely known because it consisted of an evil man with way too much power, the genocide of roughly eleven million people, and the terrible conditions each person had to endure. The person behind…

from Reich citizenship and banned them from marrying people of "German or related blood." Kristallnacht or the “Night of Broken Glass” was the anti-Jewish pogroms that took place on the 9th and 10th of November in 1938. On Kristallnacht Nazis in Germany burned down synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses. Over 100 Jewish men were killed and 30,000 men were arrested and sent to concentration camps,After the invasion of Poland in 1939 anti-Semitic policies grew. Before…

written by the Nazi German state themselves, that they found after the war. They provided evidence of the policies and actions of the Nazis. For example, the Einsatzgruppen Reports, that documented the progress of the mobile killing units, used to gas any Jewish person. They started by following German soldiers into soviet territory and carried out mass-murder operations, but then progressed to going into cities and towns and taking Jewish families from their homes and sometimes whole…