← Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads

Season 1

4 episodes · 2009

  1. 1

    Mass Graves (June-August 1941)

    Apr 16, 200946 min★ 7.7

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

  2. 2

    Judenfrei (September-December 1941)

    Apr 16, 200948 min★ 7.8

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

  3. 3

    The Pyres (1942–1943)

    Apr 23, 200942 min★ 7.8

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

  4. 4

    The Reckoning (1943–1947)

    Apr 23, 200947 min★ 7.8

    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.