Episode 1
Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
Apr 16, 2009
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.
Episode 2
Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
Apr 16, 2009
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.
Episode 3
The Pyres (1942–1943)
Apr 23, 2009
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
Episode 4
The Reckoning (1943–1947)
Apr 23, 2009
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.
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