1941 began to commit large-scale massacres mainly in Russian territories
34,000 machine-gunned in 2 days at Babi Yar
Camps opened specifically for killing Jews
Tortured, dehumanized, and humiliated Jews
Hunted down those who refused deportation
Graves were dug, shallow pits, or even deep ravines
Killed w/ machine guns or pistol shots to the head
Covered victims' grave & buried them using hand shovels or bulldozers
Victims often injured, not dead & some survived after finding a hiding place
Local anti-Semites & collaborators helped w/ killing
After the war
SS & Police Leaders oversaw all Ein. activities & reports in given area
After WWII a number of SS & PL disappeared, executed for war crimes, or committed suicide before capture
Large # of lower ranked were killed in combat, by inmates, captured and executed, or imprisoned & died in Russian camps
Lesser ranked returned to Germany or other countries
Were not charged (due to large #'s of them)
Senior leaders of Ein. put before U.S. occupation courts charged w/ membership in SS
Became known as Einsatzgruppen Trial of the Nuremburg Trials
Josh Boyer-Background of the Einzatzgruppen
The nazis needed a way to kill their there victims, as part of the final solution, they killed them by shooting them with machine guns and pistols.
They had different ways to kill there victims,one was gas chambers.
Gas chambers had were disquised as showers, and the prisoners were lead into it, an operator would close and lock an airtight door.
Then they would drop pellots down a vent that slowly soffocated them.
The victims were forced to dig a shallow grave and sit or stand at the edge of the hole and be shot, and then they would fall into the hole.
At first they killed only men, but later they killed women and children also, and the other victims, not just the jewish anymore.
They killed jews, poles,slavs, homosexuels, gypsies, russian P.O.Ws, and others
There were about 3000 men in the einsatzgruppen.
When the germans conquered a jewish town,the einsatzgruppen would round up all the jews and others and take them to the outskirts of the town to murder them.
tThe people with mental disabilitys were killed by lethal injection, and the nazis made up fake death certificates and sent them to their familys.
Even though most of the people killed in the holocost were jews, about 200,000 were mentally disabled people.
The einsatzgruppe killed about 3 million people in the holocost.
The einsatzgruppen members were drawn from the SS, and the order police.
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Richard Snyder- HISTORY
Eisatzgruppen were operated by the SS (Schutstaffel "Protective Squadron")
their main job in WW II was the annihilation of all Jews
the einsatzgruppen was formed by the Gestapo (German Secret Police) and the SS
even though WW II started in 1933 the Einsatzgruppen wasn't founded until 1938 by the Einsaztkommando and its leader Reinhard Heydrich
Einsatzgruppen were under command from German security police and security service officers
Einsatzgruppen got their orders from high ranked German government officials and the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
Travis M.
History
- Reinhard Heydrich created special task forces called Einsatzgruppen
- Charged w/ liquidating all political enemies of the Reich
- Approx. 1.4 million Jews were murdered by wars end in spring of 1943
- Activities escalated during invasion of Poland
- Task was to eliminate political opponents & Jews
- Executed 200+ daily
- Origin can be traced back to Einsatzkommando
- Used to secure gov. bldgs. & documents
- Founded on Oct. 1st, 1938
- Traveled in wake of German armies, securing gov. papers & offices
- Ad hoc units recruited from ranks of SS, SD, Ordnungspolizei, Gendarmerie, Kripo, & Gestapo
- Given several week's or month's training before sent into action
- Disbanded once military campaign ended
- Hitler decided to invade Poland and Ein. re-formed
- Operation Sealion was German plan for invasion of UK (United Kingdom)
- Was under command of Reinhard Heydrich
- The gun was the main weapon
- Eliminated communists, political dissidents, Polish gov. officials, & Jews
- Most brutal mass extermination was at Babi Yar near Kiev
- Kiev contained 175,000 Jews & in 2 days 34,000 brought to Babi Yar
- Babi Yar most appalling massacre of the war
- Lithuanian, Jews, Jewesses, Jewish children, Russians, Communists, & Partisans were killed
Method of killing- 1941 began to commit large-scale massacres mainly in Russian territories
- 34,000 machine-gunned in 2 days at Babi Yar
- Camps opened specifically for killing Jews
- Tortured, dehumanized, and humiliated Jews
- Hunted down those who refused deportation
- Graves were dug, shallow pits, or even deep ravines
- Killed w/ machine guns or pistol shots to the head
- Covered victims' grave & buried them using hand shovels or bulldozers
- Victims often injured, not dead & some survived after finding a hiding place
- Local anti-Semites & collaborators helped w/ killing
After the warJosh Boyer-Background of the Einzatzgruppen
- The nazis needed a way to kill their there victims, as part of the final solution, they killed them by shooting them with machine guns and pistols.
- They had different ways to kill there victims,one was gas chambers.
- Gas chambers had were disquised as showers, and the prisoners were lead into it, an operator would close and lock an airtight door.
- Then they would drop pellots down a vent that slowly soffocated them.
- The victims were forced to dig a shallow grave and sit or stand at the edge of the hole and be shot, and then they would fall into the hole.
- At first they killed only men, but later they killed women and children also, and the other victims, not just the jewish anymore.
- They killed jews, poles,slavs, homosexuels, gypsies, russian P.O.Ws, and others
- There were about 3000 men in the einsatzgruppen.
- When the germans conquered a jewish town,the einsatzgruppen would round up all the jews and others and take them to the outskirts of the town to murder them.
- tThe people with mental disabilitys were killed by lethal injection, and the nazis made up fake death certificates and sent them to their familys.
- Even though most of the people killed in the holocost were jews, about 200,000 were mentally disabled people.
- The einsatzgruppe killed about 3 million people in the holocost.
- The einsatzgruppen members were drawn from the SS, and the order police.
*Richard Snyder- HISTORY