Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads - Season 1
1 - Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
Air Date: April 16, 2009
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.
2 - Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
Air Date: April 16, 2009
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.
3 - The Pyres (1942–1943)
Air Date: April 23, 2009
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
4 - The Reckoning (1943–1947)
Air Date: April 23, 2009
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.