Einsatzgruppen: 1941 Odessa Massacre, Arajs Kommando, Babi Yar, Bloody Sunday (1939), Bruno Streckenbach, Burning of the Riga Synagogu by Source Wikipedia (Paperback / softback, 2013)
Please te that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 101. Chapters: 1941 Odessa massacre, Arajs Kommando, Babi Yar, Bloody Sunday (1939), Bru Streckenbach, Burning of the Riga synagogues, Commissar Order, Daugavpils Ghetto, Drohobych Ghetto, Dunamunde Action, Einsatzgruppen Trial, Einsatzgruppe Egypt, Einsatzkommando, Einsatzkommando Finnland, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Gas van, Jager Report, Jelgava massacres, Jungfernhof concentration camp, Kamianets-Podilskyi Massacre, Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941, Korherr Report, Latvian Auxiliary Police, Liep ja massacres, List of victims of the Babi Yar massacre, Lithuanian Security Police, Massacre of Lviv professors, Minsk Ghetto, Mizocz Ghetto, Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941, Operation Tannenberg, Ponary massacre, Reinhard Heydrich, Riga Ghetto, Rollkommando Hamann, Rumbula massacre, Salaspils concentration camp, Schutzmannschaft, Sonderkommando, Special Prosecution Book-Poland, Taganrog during World War II, Taganrog resistance movement, Tautinio Darbo Apsaugos Batalionas, The Black Book, Ukrainische Hilfspolizei, Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz), Ypatingasis b rys. Excerpt: Einsatzgruppen (German: , deployment groups ; singular Einsatzgruppe; official full name Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD) were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II. The Einsatzgruppen had a leading role in the implementation of the Final Solution of the Jewish question (Die Endlosung der Judenfrage) in territories conquered by Nazi Germany. Almost all of the people they killed were civilians, beginning with the Polish intelligentsia and swiftly progressing to Soviet political commissars, Jews, and Gypsies throughout Eastern Europe. Under the direction of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the supervision of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, the Einsatzgruppen operated in territories occupied by the German armed forces following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Operation Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union) in June 1941. With the cooperation and logistical assistance of the Wehrmacht, the Einsatzgruppen carried out operations ranging from the murder of a few people to Aktions which lasted over two or more days, such as the massacre at Babi Yar (33,771 killed in two days) and the Rumbula massacre (25,000 killed in two days). Historian Raul Hilberg estimates that between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen and related auxiliary troops killed more than two million people, including 1.3 million Jews. The total number of Jews murdered during the Holocaust is estimated at 5.5 to six million people. The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich and operated by the Schutzstaffel (SS) before and during World War II. The Einsatzgruppen had its origins in the ad-hoc Einsatzkommando formed by Heydrich to secure government buildings and documents following the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938. Originally part of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police; SiPo), two units of Einsatzgru