The Einsatzgruppen During the World War II many Jews where killed by Hitler and the Nazis. Within the Nazi army was a group called the Einsatzgruppen. The Einsatzgruppen was multiple groups of men that helped transport and kill Jews during the Holocaust. These men were ruthless and were close to Hitler in ranking. If these men lost the ability to kill they and the Jewish people they were to kill were sent to death camps. In group a there was 990 men. On the second group there were 665 soldiers.
The SS-Einsatzgruppen truly deserve the title, Masters of Death. The SS began their operation for lebensraum, more living space for the German Aryan race. In order for Adolf Hitler to achieve lebensraum he would have to find ways to get rid of those who were not considered worthy enough. The best and simplest way of achieving that to Hitler was to commit genocide among the Jews. The SS first started as Hitler’s own personal bodyguard force that eventually grew into its own army of death squads, “that
the Holocaust that killed millions of Jews and other minority groups in the 1930s and 1940s, many historical sources fail to capture the true horror and intensity of genocide, often watering down specific events into facts, numbers, and dates. Elie Wiesel’s “Night” and Christopher Browning’s “Ordinary Men” offer a very visceral view of the Holocaust, the former being a biopic of an Auschwitz prisoner, and the latter a collection of primary sources concerning a Battalion of the Einsatzgruppen, hastily
Rhodes’ book of the Einsatzgruppen and their deeds during World War II is a truly graphic, bloody and gruesome depiction. Rhodes describes how the SS’ gruesome individual killings came to be the industrialized murder of Jews that became known as the Holocaust. At the beginning of the book, Rhodes describes in fine detail how bloodthirsty and determined the SS was in their methodology. Their determination was such that even the German army began to fear that they might be taking this violence to the