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Einsatzgruppen
The Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing units of the SS and police that followed the German armies into Poland in 1939 and into the Soviet Union in 1941. Behind the front they shot Jews, communist officials, Roma and others in mass executions, such as at Babi Yar near Kyiv, killing well over a million people, most of them Jews. Several of their commanders were tried at Nuremberg after the war.
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