Nazi Death Squads

Nazi Death Squads

History 2009

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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.

History 2009

TV-14

Starring Christopher Browning, Christian Ingrao, Michaël Prazan

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.

41 min · Jan 1, 2009 TV-14
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.

43 min · Jan 1, 2009 TV-14
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.

41 min · Jan 1, 2009 TV-14
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.

42 min · Jan 1, 2009 TV-14

Christopher Browning

Self
Christian Ingrao

Self
Michaël Prazan

Narrator
Richard Rhodes

Director
Michaël Prazan

Director

About

Nazi Death Squads

HISTORY

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.

Information

Studio: AHC
Released: 2009
Rated: TV-14
Region of Origin: United States

Languages

Original Audio: English (United States), French (France)
Audio and Subtitles: English (United States) (AAC, CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.