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	Introduction to the Einsatzgruppen
		The Einsatzgruppen were four paramilitary units established before the invasion of the Soviet Union for the purpose of "liquidating" (murdering) Jews, Romany, and political operatives of the Communist party.
		He stated "The purpose of the Einsatzgruppen was to murder Jews and deprive them of their property." SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski confirmed this at the main Nuremberg Trial when he testified that "The principal task [of the Einsatzgruppen] was the annihilation of the Jews, gypsies, and political commissars." (Taylor, Anatomy, p.
		It was recently used in the denaturalization trial of Jonas Stelmokas in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1995.
	www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com /documents/introduction.html (5628 words)

	Kratz Family Auschwitz Memorial
		The Einsatzgruppen who took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union were new units, formed and trained immediately before that invasion with no organizational history connecting them to the Einsatzgruppen that existed during the invasion of Poland.
		The Einsatzgruppen submitted detailed and specific reports of their actions to their superiors both by radio and written communication; these reports were checked against each other for accuracy at Heydrich's headquarters.
		The first was the trial of Otto Ohlendorf, commander of Einsatzgruppe D, and 22 other members of the SS charged with responsibility for the crimes of the Einsatzgruppen.
	www.bigmeathammer.com /aushwitz16.htm (1590 words)

	JURIST - The Nuremberg Trials
		For example, the trial of sixteen German judges and officials of the Reich Ministry (The Justice Trial) considered the criminal responsibility of judges who enforce immoral laws.
		On the opening day of the trial, the twenty-one indicted war trial defendants took their seats in the dock at the rear of the sage-green draped and dark paneled room.
		The trials also helped expose many of the defendants for the criminals they were, thus denying them a martyrdom in the eyes of the German public that they might otherwise have achieved.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials12.htm (4317 words)

	THE OHLENDORF TRIAL The most revealing trial in the
		THE OHLENDORF TRIAL The most revealing trial in the "Einsatzgruppen Case" at Nuremberg was that of S.S. General Otto Ohlendorf, the chief of the S.D. who commanded Einsatzgruppe D in the Ukraine, attached to Field Marshal von Manstein's Eleventh Army.
		A typical prosecution affidavit contested by the defence in the Concentration Camp Trial of 1947 was that of Alois Hoellriegel, a member of the camp personnel at Mauthausen in Austria.
		Hans Fritzsche, on trial as the highest functionary of Goebbels' Ministry, relates that Goering, even after hearing the Ohlendorf affidavit on the Einsatzgruppen and the Hoess testimony on Auschwitz, remained convinced that the extermination of Jews was entirely propaganda fiction (The Sword in the Scales, London, 1953, p.
	www.steelhorsemag.com /misinformation4.htm (4005 words)

	Einsatzgruppen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Heydrich noted, with the Einsatzgruppen was not genocide in his opinion, but the 'morale' problem of his men, some family men who had to attend to so many killings of women and children.
		In the Ukraine especially, the Einsatzgruppen would often engage local organizations such as the police, 'auxiliary' police (volunteers, of which there was no dearth), other members of the Waffen SS and higher ranking officers (non-Einsatzgruppen).
		The Einsatzgruppen were so methodical in their killing, and so successful, that their own reports of numbers were at first questioned.
	www.shoaheducation.com /einsatz.html (2728 words)

	Nuremberg Trials
		The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during the Holocaust of World War II.
		The Doctors’ Trial was the first of the 12 trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Nuremberg after the end of the World War II.
		The Einsatzgruppen Trial brought to justice members of the Einsatzgruppen, or death squads, operating behind the front lines in eastern Europe.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1685.html (1744 words)

	The Einsatzgruppen
		The Einsatzgruppen were formed as a special action group to function behind the advancing German Army (Wermacht) to immediately deal with the region's non-combatants.
		As the Wermacht would mobilize to press on, the Einsatzgruppen squads would roll-in to handle these non-combatants and mass shootings of Jews were their specialty.
		The Einsatzgruppen program exemplifies, in my opinion, that Germany's agenda for dealing with the "Jewish Question" was not totally outlined beforehand, but was an evolution via trial-and-error or the response to prevailing conditions.
	www.datasync.com /~davidg59/einsatz.html (4758 words)

	THE EINSATZGRUPPEN
		The instructions and directives below must serve also for the purpose of urging chiefs of the Einsatzgruppen to give practical consideration to [the problems involved.] For the time being, the first prerequisite for the final aim is the concentration of the Jews from the countryside into the larger cities.
		The Einsatzgruppen Reports were discovered by the U.S.Army in Gestapo headquarters in Berlin after the war.
		During the first days of the Einsatzgruppen Trial, the authenticity of the reports was established beyond doubt and none of the German defendants challenged their validity.
	www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/einsatz.html (3650 words)

	Nearing Midnight
		One of history's most tiresome trials came to a screeching halt with the death of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.
		The Doctors Trial - The trial considered the fate of 23 German physicians who either participated in the Nazi program to euthanize persons deemed "unworthy of life" (the mentally ill, mentally retarded, or physically disabled) or who conducted experiments on concentration camp prisoners without their consent.
		Einsatzgruppen Trial - Twenty-four defendants, all members of German mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, charged with the murder and ill-treatment of POWs and civilians in occupied countries, and with wanton destruction not justified by military necessity.
	www.raptureready.com /nm/84.html (1557 words)

	A Prosecutor's Remembrance Of Nuremberg
		I was recruited for the Nuremberg Trials in the spring of 1946.
		The case was heard by a bench composed of Walter Beals (Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington) presiding; Harold Sebring (Judge of the Supreme Court of Florida), and Johnson Crawford (Judge of the District Court of Oklahoma).
		The Einsatzgruppen were special units of the SS that followed the German Army during the invasion of Russia.
	www.roberthjackson.org /Man/Speeches_Nuremberg_Robbins (3386 words)

	Trial of Wilhelm List and Others. The Hostages Trial. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949. Part VI
		On the other hand, two trials reported in an earlier volume of this series have shown that a Chief of Staff may be held guilty of committing war crimes.
		An examination of the relevant facts of the two trials mentioned above shows that the chiefs of staff who were held guilty took a closer and more willing and active part in the offences charged than did Foertsch and von Geitner.
		Einsatzgruppen Trial) was held (Nuremberg, September, 1947-April, 1948), dealt even more extensively with the plea of superior orders than did the Tribunal which conducted the Hostages Trial, and it may be of interest to quote certain passages from the judgment of the former which supplement
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /WCC/List6.htm (1751 words)

	Einsatzgruppen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the Einsatzgruppen advanced into the Soviet Union, after July 1941, the Einsatzgruppen increasingly engaged in the mass murders of the local Jews themselves rather than encouraging pogroms.
		In addition, the Einsatzgruppen were often used in anti-partisan operations in the occupied Soviet Union.
		The Einsatzgruppen typically followed close behind Wehrmacht army formations, marching into cities and towns where large numbers of Jews were known to live.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Einsatzgruppen (1883 words)

	TBRNews.org
		The Einsatzgruppen were formed in the spring of 1938 with the incorporation of the German-speaking Sudetenland into the German Reich.
		The Einsatzgruppen were to function in the rear operational areas in administrative subordination to the field armies, in order to carry out these tasks as directed by Heydrich and Himmler.
		The Einsatzgruppen were German special duty squads, composed primarily of SS and police personnel.
	www.tbrnews.org /Archives/a1047.htm (3991 words)

	The Einsatzgruppen Table of Contents
		Einsatzgruppen Report on the Extermination of the Jews in the Ukraine
		Extracts from a Report by Einsatzgruppe a in the Baltic Countries
		Obliterating the Traces of Bodies of Jews Killed by the Einsatzgruppen
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/einsatztoc.html (51 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Similar trials of Japanese war criminals took place in Tokyo and in countries that had been occupied by the Axis powers; these trials further reinforced the principles of law laid down by the IMT.
		Nuremberg and subsequent war crimes trials were the foundation stones on which a new order of humanity, international justice and peace were to be built.
		Outraged by the Nazi inhumanities revealed by the Nuremberg trials, the United Nations promptly appointed committees to develop the Nuremberg Principles into a criminal code and to create an international criminal jurisdiction where such offenses, including the crime of genocide, could be punished and deterred.
	www.fathom.com /feature/35373/index.html (3376 words)

	Einsatzgruppen Trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 24 defendants in this trial were all officers of these Einsatzgruppen and faced severe mass murder charges.
		The trial lasted from September 29, 1947 until April 10, 1948.
		His defense later tried to get him removed from the trial on medical grounds, but the tribunal dismissed this, stating that Strauch's testimonies (which he did give subsequently) were coherent and showed no reason why he shouldn't be mentally capable to stand trial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Einsatzgruppen_Trial (1223 words)

	THHP Questions: Nuremberg Trials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After the main Nuremberg Trial there were many trials of people accused of war crimes perpetrated in behalf of the Nazis.
		In fact, the Nuremberg trials -- especially the subsequent trial held under the aegis of the American authorities at Nuremberg -- form the legal cire of the current trials.
		This is quite a bit more analogous to the present trials than the main trial (IMT) where the accused were the leaders who planned and conspired to commit the crimes.
	www.holocaust-history.org /questions/nuremberg.shtml (1426 words)

	Decision of Military Tribunal II in the Einsatzgruppen Trial at Nuremberg
		Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommando leaders were authorized to take executive measures on their own responsibility.
		The story of the Einsatzgruppen and the Einsatzkommandos is not something pieced together years after their crimson deeds were accomplished.
		This was their whole judicial trial -- the indictment, the evidence, and the sentence -- a roll call of death.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/einsatzdec.html (16126 words)

	P’s honesty as an historian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The extent of the concessions and the readiness with which they were made is evidence of P’s glib disregard of the historical record when writing his books or otherwise advancing his "pre-trial stance" positions.
		The principal concessions made by P relate to: the Einsatzgruppen shootings of Jews in the East and deportations; the use of gas vans at Chelmno and in Yugoslavia; the "Action Reinhard" Camps; Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau; the Leuchter Report.
		P states that he is accepting that gassings occurred in the Action Reinhard camps ‘for the purposes of this trial’.
	www.holocaustdenialontrial.org /evidence/ix.asp (2966 words)

	Mobile Killing Organizations
		The function of the Einsatzgruppen was here to insure the political security of the conquered territories both in the operational areas of the Wehrmacht and the rear areas which were not directly under civil administration.
		The activity of the Einsatzgruppen was not limited to the civilian population alone, but reached into prisoner-of-war camps in total disregard of the rules of warfare.
		The Einsatzgruppen, already alerted, fell in behind the marching columns of the Wehrmacht as an integral part of the machine constructed for swift and total war.
	www2.dsu.nodak.edu /users/dmeier/Holocaust/mobile.html (12132 words)

	William A. Schabas, Sentencing By International Tribunals: A Human Rights Approach, 7 Duke J. of Comp. & Int'l L. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In determining the terms of imprisonment, the Trial Chambers shall have recourse to the general practice regarding prison sentences in the courts of the former Yugoslavia.
		The Trial Chamber, however, adds a condition: "[I]f this manner of proceeding is beneficial to the administration of justice, fosters the co-operation of future witnesses, and is consistent with the requirements of a fair trial."
		Thus, despite the theory, the Trial Chamber appears to have imposed a sentence that is fundamentally clement, that appropriately considers a host of mitigating factors, and that notably takes into account the fact that the condemned man is remorseful and a good candidate for rehabilitation.
	www.law.duke.edu /journals/djcil/articles/djcil7p461.htm (15907 words)

	Equipo Nizkor - Interview with Benjamin Ferencz on the ICC.
		Benjamin Ferencz from New Rochelle near New York, one of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials, is also a lawyer, a scientist and the intellectual father of the ICC which will be housed in The Hague from July first 2002.
		In this photo I am introducing documents in the Einsatzgruppen trial against the defendents who murdered over a million people and two of the defence counsel have jumped to the podium to object or comment to some of the document being introduced.
		The statute has given them the right to instruct the court at any time to halt the trial or investigation of any case for a twelve-month period and they can then renew it for an indefinate twelve-month period.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/icc/ferencz3.html (1586 words)

	The Assassination Of Reinhard Heydrich - SOCNET: The SpecialOperations.com Bulletin Boards
		And vice versa - Einsatzgruppen were occasionally attached to Wehrmacht units (the first commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Dr. Walter Stahlecker, was killed in action in an anti-partisan operation in March 1942).
		Evidence from the Einsatzgruppen trial indicates most Einsatzgruppe members convinced themselves they were doing the right thing, but there is also evidence that many simply lied to look good to their superiors.
		Doc Nuremberg was a show trial, dont take to much from what happened there, i can think of a few atrocities committed by US, NZ, Brit, and particulary soviet forces off the top of my head, wasnt too many allied troops on trial (though im sure there were some) for war crimes.
	www.socnetcentral.com /vb/showthread.php?t=49978 (4928 words)

	Challenge and Change
		Includes full-text excerpts from the trial, an interview with an American prosecutor, a list of defendants and their sentences, and the text of international human rights legislation that has resulted from the trial.
		The documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity.
		New Product:Echoes and Reflections —a multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust, is the result of an unprecedented partnership between the Anti-Defamation League, the Shoah Foundation, and Yad Vashem.
	www.temple.edu /challengeandchange/links_holocaust.htm (4431 words)

	OMT-IX-D-56 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Description: Two principal German defendants of the Einsatzgruppen "commandoes" trial in Nuernberg are SS Major General Otto Ohlendorf and SS Brigadier General Heinz Jost (front to rear) shown in the dock preparing their final pleas during a court recess.
		"The Einsatzgruppen units," the prosecution stated, "were special task forces whose primary purpose was to accompany the German army into the Eastern territories and exterminate Jews, Gypsies, Soviet officials and other civilians regarded as 'racially and politically undesirable' ".
		Ohlendorf, as commander of the Einsatzgruppen D, which operated mainly in Southern Russia, and Jost, as commander of Einsatzgruppen A operating mainly in the Baltic region, have admitted ordering the execution of several hundred thousand civilians.
	library.law.columbia.edu /ttp/photo9.htm (182 words)

	UNC-TV ONLINE: Auschwits: The North Carolina Connection: Teacher's Resource Guide
		At the Nuremberg War Trials, Otto Ohlendorf, an officer in the German army, was questioned about his leadership of the Einsatzgruppen, or mobile killing units.
		OHLENDORF : The instructions were that in the Russian operational areas of the Einsatzgruppen, the Jews as well as the Soviet political leaders were to be liquidated.
		Whether this mass extermination was necessary or not was something on which I could not allow myself to form an opinion, for I lacked the necessary breadth of view.
	www.unctv.org /auschwitz/remember_lesson10_hd1A.html (1103 words)

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