Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT)
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Directly concerned with genocidal actions outside the camp structure, the Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT), Case No. 9, United States against Otto Ohlendorf, et al., charged twenty-three officers of the SS in charge of Einsatzgruppen, or field killing units that murdered 2,000,000 people. Evidence included the Einsatzgruppen Directives. [1]
Einsatzgruppen and operations
There were four main battalion-sized groups, and some smaller independent ones.<ref>Eitzatzgruppen, Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team</ref?
| Group | Commander(s) | Attached to and strength | Area of operations<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005130 | title = Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) | publisher = U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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| A | Franz Walter Stahlecker | Army Group North
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From East Prussia across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia toward Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); Kovno, Riga, and Vilna. | |||
| B | Artur Nebe | Army Group Centre
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From Warsaw across Belorussia toward Smolensk and Minsk, massacring Jews in Grodno, Minsk, Brest-Litovsk, Slonim, Gomel, and Mogilev, among other places. | |||
| C | Otto Rasch | Army Group South'
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began operations from Krakow (Cracow) and fanned out across the western Ukraine toward Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don. Its personnel directed massacres in Lvov, Tarnopol, Zolochev, Kremenets, Kharkov, Zhitomir, and Kiev, where famously in two days in late September 1941 units of Einsatzgruppe detachment 4a massacred 33,771 Kiev Jews in the ravine at Babi Yar. | |||
| D | Otto Ohlendorf | 11th Army
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southern Ukraine and the Crimea, especially in Nikolayev, Kherson, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Feodosiya, and in the Krasnodar region. |