Name: Nazi Death Squads
Released: 2009-05-05T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Christopher Browning, Christian Ingrao, Michaël Prazan

TV Show · History · War & Military

Nazi mobile killing squads, led by highly-educated officers and aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered over a million Jews. Explores who the men who carried out mass murder at close range were.

2009 · 41m

Starring Christopher Browning, Christian Ingrao, Michaël Prazan

Director Michaël Prazan, Richard Rhodes

EPISODE 1

Mass Graves

The armies of the Third Reich invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941. Mobile commandos, the Einsatzgruppen, were following their advance to Stalingrad with the mission of eliminating all Jews in the conquered territories.
EPISODE 2

Judenfrei

Carnage continues from September to December 1941. After the EZG's intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared "Judenfrei": free of Jews.
EPISODE 3

Funeral Pyres

Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
EPISODE 4

Time of Reckoning

After being judged at the Nuremberg trials, the majority of those responsible for the murder of nearly 1.5 million Jews would walk free in the 1950s.
EPISODE 6

The Pyres

Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.