Abstract
Abstract Part of Heinrich Himmler's Schutzstaffel (Protection Squads) or SS, the Einsatzgruppen (Action Groups) were special battalions created to kill Jews, communists, partisans, intelligentsia, and other “undesirables” during Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II. The three thousand men of the Einsatzgruppen followed the German army into the USSR, and with army help and that of local paramilitary groups and civilians, murdered over a million men, women, and children. In one action at Babi Yar, near Kiev, in September 1941, they killed over 33,000 Jews and Gypsies in two days.
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