آینزاتسگروپن
Also known as deployment groups
'''''' (, ; 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
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- Mass execution of Soviet civilians, 1941
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- Germany and German-occupied Europe
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- RSHA, Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, Berlin
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- c. 3,000 (1941)
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- Heinrich Himmler
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- SS- Reinhard Heydrich
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