SS terror in the East; the Einsatzgruppen on trial.
TitleSS terror in the East; the Einsatzgruppen on trial.
Author
Call number940.53180947084/0004
Object number09124
Place of publicationBarnsley, South Yorkshire, England
PublisherPen & Sword Military
Year of publication
2013
Physical description910p.
MaterialBook
ISBN9781783462445
Description
The SS Einsatzgruppen were the most notorious of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany. Under the leadership of the notorious Otto Ohlendorf they were responsible for the introduction of a regime of terror involving mass killings, primarily by shooting, in occupied territory of the Soviet Union during 1941 and 1942. Bob Carruthers has revisited and edited the primary source material from the trial to provide a new and chilling insight into the work of the Einsatzgruppen which draws frightening conclusions and blows away the myths with regard to the presumed lack of involvement on the part of the Wehrmacht