Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
Season 1
2009tvEnded1 Season · 4 Ep
DocumentaryWar & Politics
Created by: Michaël Prazan
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Season aired: 2009-04-16
Overview
This documentary series examines the Einsatzgruppen, Nazis responsible for the mass murder of Jews, Romani and Soviet prisoners in Eastern Europe.
Episodes · 4
1
Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
46m2009-04-16★ 7
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.
2
Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
48m2009-04-16★ 8
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.
3
The Pyres (1942–1943)
42m2009-04-23★ 7
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
4
The Reckoning (1943–1947)
47m2009-04-23★ 7
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.
