Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Geographies of the Holocaust
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2014) 88-118
Keywords:
Waffen-SS
;
Germany.
;
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
On the operations of the Einssatzgruppen in the Soviet Union - how they were organized, and how they carried out the mass murders of the Jews. All told, there were only about 3,000 men assigned the daunting task of eliminating Soviet Jews and communists. Their task was made even more difficult by the decision late in the summer of 1941 to expand the killing operations to include all Jews regardless of sex or age. Thus, it is perhaps not surprising that by the end of September 1941, the manpower and weaponry of German Army units were being marshaled in support of the Nazi genocidal project, in which the victims were not deported but were murdered in their homes, in their towns, or nearby in the forests. .
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