The BEST episodes of Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
Every episode of Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads!
The armies of the Third Reich invaded the USSR on 22nd June 1941. Mobile commandos, the Einsatzgruppen, were following their advance to Stalingrad with the mission of eliminating all Jews on the conquered territories. Between June 1941 and the end of 1943, they shot to death close to two million Jews — men, women and children — from the Baltic countries to the Black Sea. Director Michael Prazan explores this unknown phase of the Shoah.
#1 - Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2009
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.
#2 - The Pyres (1942–1943)
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/2009
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
#3 - The Reckoning (1943–1947)
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/2009
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.
#4 - Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2009
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 on the conquered territories.