Today in the small groups we watched the videos on how the Nazi's were able to do what they did. One of the most notorious acts committed by the Nazis was the attempted extermination of the Jews. A large influence on the amount of fallen Jews was the EINSATZGRUPPEN. The Einsatzgruppen were killing squads that would follow the front lines to exterminate Jews and people against the ideas of Nazism. The Einsatzgruppen were very efficient in what they did. By using the cooperation of average citizens and swift extermination methods the Einsatzgruppen got their hands on 1 million Jews in two years.
The actions of the Einsatzgruppen were discovered after the war when the Soviet Union was investigating German war crimes. The trial of the Einsatzgruppen was the ninth out of twelve trials about German war crimes. There were four commanding officers of four different death squads, squads A, B, C, and D. Squad leaders from B and D were sentenced to death by hanging. Squad leader A received life in prison. Squad leader C was removed from the trial due to medical reasons and died a few months later.
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