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Directly concerned with [[genocide|genocidal]] actions outside the camp structure, the [[Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT)]], Case No. 9, ''United States against [[Otto Ohlendorf]], et al.'', charged twenty-three officers of the SS in charge of [[ | {{seealso|Einsatzgruppe}} | ||
Directly concerned with [[genocide|genocidal]] actions outside the camp structure, the [[Nuremberg Military Tribunals]]' [[Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT)]], Case No. 9, ''United States against [[Otto Ohlendorf]], et al.'', charged twenty-three officers of the SS in charge of [[Einsatzgruppe]]n, or field killing task forces, the smaller of which were called ''Einsatzcommando''s, which murdered 2,000,000 people. Evidence included the Einsatzgruppen Directives. <ref>{{citation | |||
| url = http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/directives.html | | url = http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/directives.html | ||
| title = Einsatzgruppen Directives | | title = Einsatzgruppen Directives | ||
| publisher = [[Jewish Virtual Library]]}}</ref> | | publisher = [[Jewish Virtual Library]]}}</ref> | ||
This trial did not deal with the Einsatzgruppen in the Polish Campaign, only those activities following the [[Operation Barbarossa]] invasion of the Soviet Union. | |||
==Einsatzgruppen and operations== | ==Einsatzgruppen and operations== | ||
{{main|Einsatzgruppe}} | |||
Defendants were in four main battalion-sized groups, and some smaller independent ones.<ref>{{citation | |||
| url = http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/einsatz/ | |||
| title = Eitzatzgruppen | |||
| publisher = Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team}}</ref> | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! width=10%|Group | ! width=10%|Group | ||
! Commander(s) | ! width=20%|Commander(s) | ||
! Attached to and strength | ! width=20%|Attached to and strength | ||
! Area of operations | ! width=50%|Area of operations<ref>{{citation | ||
| url = http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005130 | |||
| title = Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) | |||
| publisher = U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum}}</ref> | |||
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| A | | A | ||
| Franz Walter Stahlecker | | [[Franz Walter Stahlecker]] | ||
| Army Group North | | Army Group North | ||
*990 men | *990 men | ||
| From East Prussia across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia toward Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); Kovno, Riga, and Vilna. | | From East Prussia across [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], and [[Estonia]] toward Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); Kovno, Riga, and Vilna. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| B | | B | ||
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| Army Group Centre | | Army Group Centre | ||
*665 men | *665 men | ||
| From [[Warsaw]] across Belorussia toward Smolensk and Minsk, | | From [[Warsaw]] across [[Belarus|Belorussia]] toward [[Smolensk]] and [[Minsk]], killing Jews in Grodno, Minsk, Brest-Litovsk, Slonim, Gomel, and Mogilev, among other places. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| C | | C | ||
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| Army Group South' | | Army Group South' | ||
*700 men | *700 men | ||
| began operations from Krakow (Cracow) and fanned out across the western Ukraine toward Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don. Its personnel directed | | began operations from Krakow (Cracow) and fanned out across the western [[Ukraine]] toward Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don. Its personnel directed mass killings in [[Lvov]], [[Tarnopol]], [[Zolochev]], [[Kremenets]], [[Kharkov]], [[Zhitomir]], and [[Kiev]], where in two days in late September 1941 units of Einsatzgruppe detachment 4a massacred 33,771 Kiev Jews in the ravine at [[Babi Yar]] | ||
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| D | | D | ||
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|southern Ukraine and the Crimea, especially in Nikolayev, Kherson, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Feodosiya, and in the Krasnodar region. | |southern Ukraine and the Crimea, especially in Nikolayev, Kherson, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Feodosiya, and in the Krasnodar region. | ||
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==References== | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:00, 10 August 2024
- See also: Einsatzgruppe
Directly concerned with genocidal actions outside the camp structure, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals' Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT), Case No. 9, United States against Otto Ohlendorf, et al., charged twenty-three officers of the SS in charge of Einsatzgruppen, or field killing task forces, the smaller of which were called Einsatzcommandos, which murdered 2,000,000 people. Evidence included the Einsatzgruppen Directives. [1]
This trial did not deal with the Einsatzgruppen in the Polish Campaign, only those activities following the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the Soviet Union.
Einsatzgruppen and operations
Defendants were in four main battalion-sized groups, and some smaller independent ones.[2]
| Group | Commander(s) | Attached to and strength | Area of operations[3] |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Franz Walter Stahlecker | Army Group North
|
From East Prussia across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia toward Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); Kovno, Riga, and Vilna. |
| B | Artur Nebe | Army Group Centre
|
From Warsaw across Belorussia toward Smolensk and Minsk, killing Jews in Grodno, Minsk, Brest-Litovsk, Slonim, Gomel, and Mogilev, among other places. |
| C | Otto Rasch | Army Group South'
|
began operations from Krakow (Cracow) and fanned out across the western Ukraine toward Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don. Its personnel directed mass killings in Lvov, Tarnopol, Zolochev, Kremenets, Kharkov, Zhitomir, and Kiev, where in two days in late September 1941 units of Einsatzgruppe detachment 4a massacred 33,771 Kiev Jews in the ravine at Babi Yar |
| D | Otto Ohlendorf | 11th Army
|
southern Ukraine and the Crimea, especially in Nikolayev, Kherson, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Feodosiya, and in the Krasnodar region. |
References
- ↑ Einsatzgruppen Directives, Jewish Virtual Library
- ↑ Eitzatzgruppen, Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
- ↑ Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads), U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum