Einsatzgruppen
SS - Gruppenführer Otto Ohlendorf (1907-1951) , commander of Einsatzgruppe D and one of the most famous figures in the body of the Einsatzgruppen . He remained steadfast in his belief that the anti - Jewish , even when faced with the death penalty . Here is the mugshot photo Ohlendorf , dated March 1, 1948
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Executions of Kiev Jews by the Einsatzgruppen members near Ivangorod , Ukraine . This photo was mailed from the Eastern Front to Germany , but has been found in the course of the Warsaw post office by a member of the Polish resistance named Jerzy Tomaszewski . The original text itself behind this photo reads : " Ukraine , 1942. Actions ( operations ) against Jews , Ivangorod . "
The members of the Einsatzgruppen in part taken from concentration camp guards because they were used to " see " in their daily deaths . This demonstrates the SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp prisoner , Germany , December 19, 1938
Einsatzgruppen members were chatting in Poland
Without a doubt , this is the most famous photograph depicting the role of the Einsatzgruppen units . Here Wehrmacht soldiers and members of labor organizations with regard Reich was pounding as a member of Einsatzgruppe D getting ready to blow up the head of a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave that had been filled with the bodies of executed earlier . The location itself is in Podolia which is part of Vinnitsa , Ukraine (USSR ) , 1942
Nazi Einsatzgruppen were special units were formed to carry out a purge of those who disagree with the political doctrines of the Nazis . In Nazi doctrine , those who disagree with them called Untermensch or lowly human , so it must be eliminated.
The person who set up the Einsatzgruppen was the supreme leader of SS ( Schutzstaffel ) , Heinrich Himmler along with his right hand , who served as Chief of SD ( Sicherheitsdienst ) or Nazi Party Intelligence Agency , Reynhard Heydrich . People who are members of the Einsatzgruppen units themselves are those options are taken from various Nazi institutions , ranging from the best soldiers who are members of the Waffen - SS ( armed SS troops ) , the members of the Gestapo ( Geheime Stadspolizei ) or Police secret State , a member of the SD and police crime or known as Kripo ( Kriminalpolizei ) .
Himmler's Einsatzgruppen split into four units , each of which is led by people with high academic abilities , such as Adolf Eichmann , head of the Auschwitz concentration camp and escaped to South America after World War II ended and subsequently kidnapped by Israeli secret service in 1950s and brought to justice in the Jewish state .
The four units in later spread to the rest of Europe to commit mass murder terror against many people , ranging from the Jews , Poland , Czechoslovakia , and the largest is the Russian people . Small units they disempalkan in many German concentration camps at Dachau , Buchenwald , Auschwitz and many more places to kill the detainees.