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They were created to assist the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht) in the elimination of Jewish citizens in Europe.

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What was the SS Murder Squads?

The German Einsatzgruppen (task groups) were execution squads that went in to places after the wehrmacht. The squads were composed of kriminal polizei, Gestapo, Waffen SS and SD men. These Einsatzgruppen were responsible for killing over one million jews.


What was the mobile killing squad?

The mobile killing squad, primarily associated with the Nazi regime during World War II, refers to Einsatzgruppen, which were paramilitary death squads responsible for mass shootings of Jews, Roma, communists, and other perceived enemies. Operating in Eastern Europe, these squads followed the German army into territories like Poland and the Soviet Union, conducting systematic executions, often in mass graves. Their brutal tactics contributed significantly to the Holocaust, resulting in the deaths of approximately two million people. The Einsatzgruppen's actions exemplify the extreme measures taken by the Nazis to implement their genocidal policies.


What did the Einsatzgruppen do during World War 2?

After the war some members of the Einsatzgruppen were put on trial and convicted. A few did deals with the prosecutors and agreed to give evidence for the prosecution in exchange for immunity. Some escaped to the Americas, but most went home and lived happily ever after.


What was the name of Jews selected to aid in the Nazis killing process?

It sounds as if you are thinking of the Sonderkommandosor 'special squads' that were forced to move corpses from the gas chambers to to the crematoria.


What is a kommando at holocaust?

a kommando is just a squad. on the easter front 'Sonderkommando' (special squads) were sent out to kill Jews. work groups from concentration camps were call kommandos, they were named after their leader, so if the leader was called Patel, then the squad would be called the Patelkommando. in many of the death camp the 'stokers' (to give them their offical title) were called Sonderkommado (special squads) - known now as Jewish Sonderkommando as not to be confused with the pre-existing Sonderkommando.

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What was the SS Murder Squads?

The German Einsatzgruppen (task groups) were execution squads that went in to places after the wehrmacht. The squads were composed of kriminal polizei, Gestapo, Waffen SS and SD men. These Einsatzgruppen were responsible for killing over one million jews.


What is eindstzgruppen?

Einsatzgruppen were, in layman's terms, the death squads of the Waffen SS.


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 was the name of the Nazi mobile killing squads sent to Poland and the Soviet Union?

They were the SD-Einsatzgruppen.


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.


What was the name of the German special duty units called mobile killing squads who shot and killed more than one million Jews?

These groups are called "Einsatzgruppen" and would round up Jews and shoot them to death. The project was replaced with the death camps in order to preserve the bullets.


Hitler also had a special killing squads of SS troops that were called?

Einsatzgruppe (Special Operations Unit)


What does the Nazi SS squad mean?

The SS, or Schutzstaffel ("Protective Squadron"), group were originally Hitler's personal bodyguards. Toward the war's end they became the Einsatzgruppen, or death squads, mercilessly and brutally hunting down mainly Jews.


What wetre the mobile killing squads?

Mobile killing squads, known as Einsatzgruppen, were paramilitary death squads operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. They were responsible for mass shootings and the systematic extermination of Jews, Roma, and other perceived enemies in occupied territories, particularly in Eastern Europe. These squads followed the German army into newly acquired territories, conducting large-scale massacres, often rounding up victims in mass graves. Their actions contributed significantly to the Holocaust and the overall atrocities committed during the war.


What comes in elevens?

The different squads on a football team: offense, defense and special teams.


What happen to those Jews not reached by killing squads?

The Jewish, if not killed by the Einsatzgruppen in mass shootings, they would be put into ghettos. From there on the Jewish men, women and children would later be placed on fret trains going from anywhere to Bergen-Belsen to Auschwitz.


What happened to those Jews not reached by killing the squads?

The Jewish, if not killed by the Einsatzgruppen in mass shootings, they would be put into ghettos. From there on the Jewish men, women and children would later be placed on fret trains going from anywhere to Bergen-Belsen to Auschwitz.