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Did you know the Einsatzgruppen had vans, which were regular trucks with the exhaust pipes redirected into the cargo area, and Jews were herded into these trucks sometimes ninety at a time? The Jews were the scapegoats in Europe in World War II. Hitler blamed them for Germany’s loss in the First World War. On September 1, 1939, World War II began in Europe. The Einsatzgruppen was formed to eliminate as many Jews as possible in many different places. They forced victims to surrender any valuables and all clothing. The mobile killing squads moved them to the outskirts to shoot or gas them before they were buried in graves dug by the Jewish people. They were brutal, ruthless killers and many were punished after the war. (Einsatzgruppen (Mobile Killing Units)).
The Einsatzgruppen was started before World War II began. Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler to oversee it. In 1929, their manpower was limited to less than three-hundred men. Recruiting heavily, Himmler raised the number to over fifty-thousand by January 1933 (Heinrich Himmler). The objectives of this group were to spread the beliefs of racial purity and carry out the task of annihilation of all inferior peoples (Armitage). It was Reinhard Heydrich’s security police who were the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen (Reinhard Heydrich). In Pretsch, possible recruits for the Einsatzgruppen gathered in the Border-Police School (Organization of the Einsatzgruppen). Heinrich Himmler oversaw the Einsatzgruppen, but Reinhard Heydrich carried out most of the executions (Reinhard Heydrich).
The Einsatzgruppen had four main divisions: Einsatzgruppen A, Einsatzgruppen B, Einsatzgruppen C, and Einsatzgruppen D. Each of these divisions had smaller squads. According to sources, Einsatzgruppen A ...

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