Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
Season 1
2009 • 4 Episodes
Episodes
1. Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
★7.0
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)
★8.0
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)
★7.0
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)
★7.0
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.