Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades The harrowing two-part, three-hour docu "Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades" exhaustively chronicles the lethal work of an SS band charged with exterminating ...

The Einsatzgruppen Were Militarized Police Manuel García, Jr. 80 years ago this week, on 22 June 1941, Operation Barbarossa — the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union — was launched.

The Islamic State (ISIS) is notorious for its videotaped death squad executions of its captured Western hostages in Iraq and Syria, and its genocidal mass extermination of the Yazidi Christian ...

German prosecutors are intensifying their hunt for aging Nazi war criminals still at large by expanding investigations into death squads known as the "Einsatzgruppen," which were responsible for ...

Einsatzgruppen D was the unit of Ferencz's lead defendant Otto Ohlendorf. He didn't deny the killings -- he had the gall to claim they were done in self-defense. Benjamin Ferencz: ...

Lee Spielmann[/caption] Commencing in September 1947 and concluding the following April, ranking members of the “Einsatzgruppen,” part of Nazi Germany’s SS and Police apparatus, were ...

Four Einsatzgruppen or “task forces” alone would annihilate some 1.5 million Jews, even before the construction of the extermination camps in occupied Poland.

The Einsatzgruppen were the Nazis' opening salvo in the Holocaust — SS units and police personnel who followed behind the regular army as it pushed into the Soviet Union in 1941, ...

The Einsatzgruppen Trial became the largest murder trial in history. Of the 24 people indicted, all were convicted, and 13 received death sentences. In his opening statement at Nuremberg, ...

MASTERS OF DEATH: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust Richard Rhodes, . . Knopf, $27.50 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-375-40900-4 ...