Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads

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  1. Mass Graves (June-August 1941)

  46m

  This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.

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  2. Judenfrei (September-December 1941)

  48m

  In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.

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  3. The Pyres (1942–1943)

  42m

  Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.

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  4. The Reckoning (1943–1947)

  47m

  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.

Cast

Paul Bandey

Narration: English

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Christian Ingrao

Self, Historian

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Christopher R. Browning

Self, Historian

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Jürgen Matthäus

Self, Historian

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Halina Jankoska

Lithuanian Witness, Self

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Regina Jablonska

Lithuanian Witness, Self

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Anatoly Lipinski

Lithuanian Witness, Self

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Volodymyr Vizniak

Ukrainian Witness, Self