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  1. Franz Stark

    Officer at Einsatzgruppe A in years 1941 - 1942

  2. Einsatzgruppe A

    • EG A

    1941/1944

    Einsatzgruppe A, 1.000 troops initially, had its headquarters in Danzig. Areas of operation were Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Leningrad district. Einsatzgruppe A’s first commander was SS-Standartenführer dr. Walter Stahlecker. After Stahlecker’s death in a firefight with guerillas in 1942, Einsatzgruppe A was led by Heinz Host, SS-Oberführer dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader and SS-Oberführer dr. Friedrich Panzinger. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind t...

  3. Einsatzgruppe D

    • EG D

    1942/1943

    Einsatzgruppe D, 600 troops initially, had its headquarters in Piatra-Neamt, Romania. Areas of operation were southern Ukraine, Crimea, Ciscaucasia. Dr. Otto Ohlendorf commanded Einsatzgruppe D. Himmler replaced him with SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei dr. Walter Bierkamp. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Sovie...

  4. Willi Seibert

    Officer in Einsatzgruppe D in years 1941 - 1943

  5. Heinz-Hermann Schubert

    Adjuntant in Einsatzgruppe D in years 1941-1942

  6. Einsatzkommando 8

    • EK 8

    1942/1943

    Einsatzkommando 8 was a mobile killing squad of Einsatzgruppe B.

  7. Rudolf Schlegel

    Commandant of Teilkommando in Einsatzkommando 8, years 1941-1943

  8. Fritz Scherwitz

    Officer in Einsatzgruppe A in years 1941-1944. In charge of forced labor in the Riga ghetto between 1941 and 1943 ,and commander of the Lenta camp between 1943 and 1944

  10. Emanuel Schaefer

    Head of the Gestapo in Koeln in 1942, then officer in the BdS in Serbia and commander of the Einsatzgruppe Serbien

  11. Einsatzgruppe Serbien

    • EG Serbien

    Founded in 1941-04

    Einsatzgruppe Serbien was founded in 1941-04. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs.

  12. Sonderkommando 10b

    Founded in 1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe D, established in 1943. Sonderkommando 10b, assigned to the 3rd Romanian Army, took part in massacres of Jewish inhabitants of Czernowitz, Skadovsk, Feodosia, Kertsh and Dzhankoy.

  13. Felix Ruehl

    Officer in Sonderkommando 10b in year 1941

  14. Hans Hermann Remmers

    Commander of Teilkommando in Sonderkommando 1b in the years 1941-1942

  15. Sonderkommando 4a

    1942/1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe C. Sonderkommando 4a is also known as Einsatzkommando 4a, even in reports of the Nazis in 1941.

  16. Waldemar von Radetzky

    Deputee commander at Sonderkommando 4a in years 1941-1942

  17. Jakob Oswald

    Officer in Einsatzgruppe B in years 1942-1943

  18. Sonderkommando 1b

    1941/1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe A.

  19. Fritz Merbach

    Officer in Sondernkommando 1b in years 1941-1943

  20. Gerhard Maywald

    Officer of Einsatzgruppe A in years 1941-1942.