S01E01 Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.
Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
Overview
This documentary series examines the Einsatzgruppen, Nazis responsible for the mass murder of Jews, Romani and Soviet prisoners in Eastern Europe.
Episodes
S01E02 Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.
S01E03 The Pyres (1942–1943)
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
S01E04 The Reckoning (1943–1947)
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.
Cast
Paul Bandey
Narration: English
Christian Ingrao
Self, Historian
Christopher R. Browning
Self, Historian
Jürgen Matthäus
Self, Historian
Halina Jankoska
Lithuanian Witness, Self
Regina Jablonska
Lithuanian Witness, Self
Anatoly Lipinski
Lithuanian Witness, Self
Volodymyr Vizniak
Ukrainian Witness, Self
