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Nazi Death Squads - Episode Guide

Season 1

Mass Graves (June - August 1941)

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Apr 16, 2009

Mass Graves (June - August 1941)

The armies of the Third Reich invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941. Mobile commandoes, the Einsatzgruppen, were following their advance to Stalingrad with the mission of eliminating all Jews on the conquered territories.

Judenfrei (September-December 1941)

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Apr 16, 2009

Judenfrei (September-December 1941)

Carnage continues from September to December 1941. After the EZG's intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared "Judenfrei": free of Jews.

Funeral Pyres (1942-1943)

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Apr 23, 2009

Funeral Pyres (1942-1943)

Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.

Time of Reckoning (1943-1947)

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 23, 2009

Time of Reckoning (1943-1947)

After being judged at the Nuremberg trials, the majority of those responsible for the murder of nearly 1.5 million Jews would walk free in the 1950s.

End note from this episode: "Of the 3000 members of the Einsatzgruppen responsible for the assassination of millions of people, including more than one and a half million Jews, only 200 were put on trial."

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