Name: Nazi Death Squads
Released: 2009-05-05T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Christopher Browning, Christian Ingrao, Michaël Prazan

TV Show · History · War & Military

This documentary series examines the Einsatzgruppen, Nazis responsible for the mass murder of Jews, Romani and Soviet prisoners in Eastern Europe.

2009 · 41m

EPISODE 1

Mass Graves

Context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.
EPISODE 2

Judenfrei

Carnage continues from September to December 1941; after the EZG's intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Baltic states are declared Judenfrei: free of Jews.
EPISODE 4

Time of Reckoning

After the Nuremberg trials, the majority of those responsible for the murder of nearly 1.5 million Jews would walk free in the 1950s.
EPISODE 6

The Pyres

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