Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Examines the role of the Einsatzgruppen, task forces deployed in Eastern Europe by the SS, whose job was to slaughter Eastern European Jews, and discusses Hitler's eventual plans to annihilate members of other ethnic groups.
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It is a grizzly story popular historian Rhodes tells, but he says it is an important part of the larger picture of the Holocaust, and the victims deserve some notice by history. The Einsatzgruppen were special task forces that followed the Nazi armies into eastern Poland and the Soviet Union in late June 1941, and murdered Jews by the thousands gunning them down and burying them in mass graves dug by prisoners of war. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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