Einsatzgruppen mobile killing units & archival research

Some residents of the occupied regions, mostly Ukrainians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, aided these German mobile killing squads by serving as auxiliary police. The mobile killing units acted swiftly, taking the Jewish population by surprise. The killers entered a town or city and rounded up all Jewish men, women, and children.. Haunting images depict the grim reality of the crimes committed by the Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing squads formed by Nazi Germany during World War II. In this images, uniformed members of the Einsatzgruppen are shown carrying out mass executions of innocent civilians, including men, women and children.

Learn more about Nazi mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) killing activities in the Soviet Union during World War II.. Holocaust - Einsatzgruppen, Mobile Killers: Organized at the Wannsee Conference, the so-called "final solution to the Jewish question" was the systematic extermination of Jews carried out by either special mobile killing units (Babi Yar massacre) or slave-labor and extermination camps (Auschwitz, Treblinka) by Nazis in Germany and the areas they controlled.