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Einsatzgruppen - The Nazi Death Squads (3/4) : Funeral Pyres "1942 - 1943"

2026-05-04 149 Dailymotion

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

The year 1942 will be the deadliest for Jews in the east. Methodically, Jewish communities disappeared one after the other in the conquered territories.

While the destruction by gas of Western European Jews in death camps was ratified at Wansee on July 20, 42, the Soviet counterattack gained ground after the Battle of Stalingrad.

Nazi Germany, which understands that it could lose the war, tasks the Einsatzgruppen with supervising the erasure of traces of the genocide in the east.

This is the beginning of "Operation 1005." At the sites of the mass executions, Jewish slaves dig up and burn the bodies of the victims before being liquidated themselves.

Their revolt took place everywhere until the Battle of Berlin, which sounded the death knell for Nazism.