80 years ago this week, on 22 June 1941, Operation Barbarossa — the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union — was launched. The warfare between the Nazis and the Russians, which lasted until the end ...

The harrowing two-part, three-hour docu "Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades" exhaustively chronicles the lethal work of an SS band charged with exterminating Jews in Russia and the Baltic states ...

Lee Spielmann[/caption] Commencing in September 1947 and concluding the following April, ranking members of the “Einsatzgruppen,” part of Nazi Germany’s SS and Police apparatus, were prosecuted in ...

This is not for the squeamish. Rhodes, a Pulitzer winner for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, has pulled together a mountain of research on the mass murders of Jews perpetrated by the ...

The SS and Army Security formations who operated behind the front lines during World War II. In this documentary, we uncover how units like the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), Gestapo, and Ordnungspolizei ...

Twenty-two SS officers responsible for the deaths of 1M+ people would never have been brought to justice were it not for Ben Ferencz. The officers were part of units called Einsatzgruppen, or action ...

EIGHTY-years-ago this month, Adolf Hitler had given up on his plans to invade Britain and was directing his generals to plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union. We remember Operation Barbarossa for ...

BERLIN (JTA) — A German television channel is broadcasting interviews with two alleged members of World War II Nazi death squads located with help from an Israeli hunter of Nazis. Efraim Zuroff, ...

In the history of the so-called “Holocaust by Bullets,” World War II German army chaplains protested the mass murder of Jewish children on one occasion. After SS firing squads known as Einsatzgruppen ...