Describes the murderous activities of Himmler's Einsatzgruppen - or death squads: hand-picked groups that followed in the wake of Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht units advancing into Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia. Their mass murder of civilians in the occupied territories will never be accurately quantified but is likely to have exceeded two million people, including some 1.3 million of the 6,000,00 Jews who perished in the Holocaust.