Fifty years ago: from terror to systematic murder

Includes an excerpt from Christopher Browning's book, Fateful Months, which explores the emergence in 1941 of a shift in Nazi policy towards Jews: from persecution to extermination. Robert Wolfe of the National Archives provides copies of the only documentary evidence of this policy shift, and excerpts from The Einsatzgruppen Reports describe the organization of the mobile killing units and demonstrate the zeal with which the units executed the Nazi policy. Includes a chronology of 1941