Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT)

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.

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.

Group	Commander(s)	Attached to and strength	Area of operations
A	Franz Walter Stahlecker	Army Group North 990 men	From East Prussia across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia toward Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); Kovno, Riga, and Vilna.
B	Artur Nebe	Army Group Centre 665 men	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' 700 men	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 600 men	southern Ukraine and the Crimea, especially in Nikolayev, Kherson, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Feodosiya, and in the Krasnodar region.