4 episodes
Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads - Season 1
First aired Apr 16, 2009Season 1
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Episodes
Episode 1
Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
Apr 16, 200946 min1 votes
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.
Episode 2
Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
Apr 16, 200948 min1 votes
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.
Episode 3
The Pyres (1942–1943)
Apr 23, 200942 min1 votes
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
Episode 4
The Reckoning (1943–1947)
Apr 23, 200947 min1 votes
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.