Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads – Season 1
2009
4 Episodes
Episodes
S01E01
7.0Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.
16 Apr 200946m
S01E02
8.0Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.
16 Apr 200948m
S01E03
7.0The Pyres (1942–1943)
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
23 Apr 200942m
S01E04
7.0The Reckoning (1943–1947)
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.
23 Apr 200947m