Based on extensive archival research, this book offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial, and punishment of the leaders of the Ss-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the eastern front.
Sent to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, four units of Einsatzgruppen along with reinforcements, murdered approximately one million Soviet civilians in open air shootings and in gas vans and, in 1947, twenty-four leaders.
Based on extensive archival research, this book offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial, and punishment of the leaders of the Ss-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the eastern front