Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads

E1 · 46m

Mass Graves (June-August 1941)

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

E2 · 48m

Judenfrei (September-December 1941)

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

E3 · 42m

The Pyres (1942–1943)

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

E4 · 47m

The Reckoning (1943–1947)

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.