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Officially, the purpose of the Einsatzgruppen was to kill guerrilla fighters in the Soviet Union, but in practice their main function was to kill Soviet Jews.
The ''Einsatzgruppen'' were a specialized German force. They were mobile killing units (death squads) and went into action behind German lines on the Eastern Front, killing mainly Jews. There were four Einsatzgruppen: A, B, C and D. They were all posted in different areas behind the Eastern Front.
Incredible as it may sound, three of these four groups were commanded by men with doctorates! The commander of Group C, Otto Rasch, even had two doctorates and was referred to as Dr. Dr. Rasch.
The Einsatzgruppen were SS paramilitary forces in WW2 that were primarily employed to eliminate Jews and Communist party officials. They were little more than death squads who killed without qualm or remorse.
'The Einsatzgruppen were the mobile Nazi killing squads trained by the SS. They were dispatched on special assignments for the primary purpose of murdering Jews. Their task to kill the Jews on the spot - Jews, but not only Jews; communists, Gypsies, political leaders, and the intelligentsia were also killed. Order police battalions, Waffen SS units, the Higher SS, and Police Leaders also carried out the mass executions. Einsatzgruppen units followed the German Army (Wehrmacht) into the Soviet Union following the June, 1941 invasion of Soviet Territory. (1) Berenbaum, Michael, editor. Witness to the Holocaust. New York: HarperCollins. 1997. pp. 112 - 113'
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 10y agoEinsatzgruppen is German for "task force".
You probably meant "Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD". This was a task force that was operated by the Schutzstaffel, better known as the "SS".
This task force was primarily a death squad which, upon orders from SS officers, tracked down and eliminated or captured Jewish populations in Nazi-controlled regions.
The task force had a leading role in what the Nazi's called the "Final Solution". This "Final Solution" was the holocaust.
This task force is responsible for the mass murder of millions of Jews across the globe. You may have seen in War Movies a line of people in a street or field being gunned down by German troops - that was them.
This task force was also responsible for carrying out war crimes in Prisoner of War camps against, not just the Jewish, but captured allies, captured rebels and people who did not conform to Hitler's standard of a "perfect race". They operated the gas chambers in concentration camps and some evidence suggests they experimented on live prisoners too, testing new weapons, new gasses and so on.
This task force is responsible for the most terrible war crimes in known history. After the war, all the surviving commanding officers of the task force were put on trial and, most, were sentenced to death.
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∙ 15y agoQuite a number of the members of the Einsatzgruppen were recruited from the police.
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∙ 14y agoThe Einsatzgruppen followed the German Army during its invasion of the Soviet Union and systematically slaughtered all the Jews they could find, mainly in mass shootings.
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∙ 13y agothey were usually put in a ditch and shot
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What methods did the Einsatzgruppen use to accomplish their mission?
no one nos
Who made the Holocaust begin?
There is not a clear answer to this, one could say that it was the einsatzgruppen.
What was einzengruppen?
The Einsatzgruppen were special units of the SS during WWII that operated mainly in Eastern Europe in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa. The Einsatzgruppen (there were several sub-units, Einsatzgruppen a-d) would get in to occupied parts of the USSR before the Wermacht actually got to them,would search for Jews in villages and towns, gather them together and murder them, usually by shooting them down into mass graves. The most famous of these sites are Babi Yar (in Kiev, the Ukraine) and Ponary (outside Vilnius, Lithuania).
Why did the Nazis get rid of the einzatsgruppen?
They were established in 1942 in the Soviet Union and were divided into 4 units if approximately 600 men: A B C D groups. Once the Germans were finally ousted from the Soviet Union in late 1944, these groups were disbanded because of the chaos and constant retreats. The vast majority of Polish Jews were murdered by 1944-45 for the retreating einsatzgruppen to roundup and murder. Genereal Ohlendorf, who commanded the einsatzgruppen D, was captured and tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg after the war. What makes his case so interesting, is that he was very open and honest about his crimes on the eastern front and accepted his guilt. He was executed by hanging soon after the verdict.
What is the Einzatzgruppen?
Einsatzgruppen (Special-operation units) were SS paramilitary death squads that took part in the systematic killing of mostly civilians, including: Jews, communists, intellectuals, and others.
What were einstzgruppen what nation id they operate?
what were the einsatzgruppen what nation did they rule
In einsatzgruppen why where the Jews victimised?
The Einsatzgruppen were set up in order to kill Jews.
What was the role of the Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine according to the Wehrmacht report?
The 'official' purpose of the Einsatzgruppen was to combat guerrillas.
What did the Nazis do when the einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow for them?
The Nazis murdered people 'en masse' when the Einsatzgruppen were not efficient enough. There is overwhelming evidence of this.
When the einsatzgruppen proved to be slow for the Nazis what did the Nazi do?
The Nazis murdered people 'en masse' when the Einsatzgruppen were not efficient enough. There is overwhelming evidence of this.
How do you pronounce Einsatzgruppen?
'''Eyen'''-zats-groopen.
Who created Einsatzgruppen?
Reinhard Tristan Eugaen Heydrick
What did the Nazis do when the Einsatzgruppen proved to slow?
went for a poo
When the einsatzgruppen proved to be to slow for the Nazi's they?
Mr. Robins is watching you...
What methods did the Einsatzgruppen use to accomplish their mission?
no one nos
Did the einsatzgruppen help Hitler?
No, they were on the Eastern front, far from Hitler.
How can you put einsatzgruppen in a sentence?
"Einsatzgruppen were directly responsible for many murders during WW2 ". The generic meaning of "einsatzgrupp" is 'Task Force' but under the Nazi regime that gained an entirely more sinister connotation.
