Einsatzgruppen

German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)

ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and site of Nazi massacres

'''''' (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" () in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood. Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progres

vehicle equipped as a mobile gas chamber for the purpose of conducting mass murder

mass executions carried out by Germans and Lithuanians near Vilnius in 1941–1944

massacre of Jews in Odessa during the Holocaust

ninth in the series of twelve Nuremberg Military Tribunals

Nazi ghetto in occupied Belarus

Bydgoszcz, 3 September 1939

Nazi massacre of Jews in Riga, Latvia, in late 1941

The Schutzmannschaft, or Auxiliary Police ( "protection team"; plural: Schutzmannschaften, abbreviated as Schuma) was the collaborationist auxiliary police of native policemen serving in those areas of the Soviet Union and the Baltic states occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), established the Schutzmannschaft on 25 July 1941, and subordinated it to the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei; Orpo). By the end of 1941, some 45,000 men served in Schutzmannschaft units, about half of them in the battalions. During 1942, Schutzmannschaften expanded

Nazi police prison and re-education through labor camp southeast of Riga in Latvia

Nazi ghetto in occupied Latvia

Death count of a Nazi death squad, 1941

iconic photograph picturing the imminent execution of a Jewish man by a Nazi

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act of murdering Polish scientists by police force of Nazi Germany (Lviv/Lwów, 1941)

Latvian voluntary Nazi collaborating unit

list of prominent British residents to be arrested as part of the preparation for the proposed invasion of Britain; produced in 1940 by the SS

Trochenbrod or Trohinbrod (, ) was an exclusively Jewish shtetl – a small town, with an area of – located in the Łuck powiat of the Wołyń Voivodeship, in the Second Polish Republic and would now be located in the Volyn Oblast in Ukraine. The town used to be situated about northeast of Lutsk.

proscription list made by Nazi Germany targeting important members of Polish society for executions

Lithuanian killing squad

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Nazi ghetto in occupied Ukraine

During World War II, the Nazi German ''''''' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic murder of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, conv

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series of mass executions in Latvia

Nazi ghetto in occupied Ukraine

1941 Nazi killing squad in Lithuania

image of the Holocaust in Ukraine

World War II mass murders in Poland

Nazi ghetto in occupied Latvia

Paramilitary units and Nazy collaborators

collaborationist military force of police established in July 1941

war crimes during the Slovak National Uprising in Kremnička

Slaughter of Lithuanian Jews

nazi SS unit

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1942 Nazi operation in Latvia

Killing of Jews in Jelgava, Latvia

Internal Nazi reports on the Holocaust

Ignatówka, also Lozisht, was a Jewish shtetl (village) located in what is now western Ukraine but which used to be part of the Second Polish Republic before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. Ignatówka was bordering a Jewish shtetl in Zofjówka, located in the gmina Silno, powiat Łuck of the Wołyń Voivodeship, in prewar Poland. The two villages were part of a joint Jewish community of Trochenbrod and Lozisht.