The evolving 'Holocaust by Bullets'
How stage by stage the SS refined their methods of mass murder during the second half of 1941
Four SS Einsatzgruppen followed Hitler’s invading armies into Russia and the Baltic states when he launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. These were the death squads that would target the communist officials and other ‘enemies’ of the Nazis with summary executions. The largest group of ‘enemies’ were the communities of Jewish men, women and childre…
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