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Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death SquadsSeason 1

Episodes

  • E01 Mass Graves (June-August 1941)

    7.0

    Apr 16, 2009 · 46m

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

  • E02 Judenfrei (September-December 1941)

    8.0

    Apr 16, 2009 · 48m

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

  • E03 The Pyres (1942–1943)

    7.0

    Apr 23, 2009 · 42m

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

  • E04 The Reckoning (1943–1947)

    7.0

    Apr 23, 2009 · 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.