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  2. Emanuel Schaefer

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Felix Ruehl

    Officer in Sonderkommando 10b in year 1941

  6. Hans Hermann Remmers

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

  7. 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.

  8. Waldemar von Radetzky

    Deputee commander at Sonderkommando 4a in years 1941-1942

  9. Jakob Oswald

    Officer in Einsatzgruppe B in years 1942-1943

  10. Sonderkommando 1b

    1941/1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe A.

  11. Fritz Merbach

    Officer in Sondernkommando 1b in years 1941-1943

  12. Gerhard Maywald

    Officer of Einsatzgruppe A in years 1941-1942.

  13. Schneour Zalman Schneersohn

    • שניאור זלמן שניאורסון

    One of the Chief Rabbis of Chabad Lubawich. He was active in France during WWII.

  14. Einsatzgruppe C

    • EG C

    1941/1944

    Einsatzgruppe C, 750 commandos initially, had its headquarters in Kiev. Areas of operation were southern and central Ukraine. 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.

  15. Hans Krieger

    Officer in Einsatzgruppe C in jahr 1941-1942

  16. Andreas von Koskull

    An SS member and officer in Einsatzkommando 6 in the years 1941-1942

  17. Einsatzkommando 6

    • EK 6

    1941/1943

    Mobile killing squads of Einsatzgruppe C.

  18. Waldemar Klingelhoefer

    Deputy Commander Vorkommando Moskau in 1941

  19. Adolf Janssen

    Commander of Teilkommando in Sonderkommando 4a in 1941

  20. Georg-Albert Heuser

    Officer at the Einsatzgruppe A from 1941 to 1944 and commander of Einsatzkommando 14 in 1944