Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades The harrowing two-part, three-hour docu "Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades" exhaustively chronicles the lethal work of an SS band charged with exterminating ...

Einsatzgruppen D was the unit of Ferencz's lead defendant Otto Ohlendorf. He didn't deny the killings -- he had the gall to claim they were done in self-defense. Benjamin Ferencz: ...

The Islamic State (ISIS) is notorious for its videotaped death squad executions of its captured Western hostages in Iraq and Syria, and its genocidal mass extermination of the Yazidi Christian ...

The Einsatzgruppen Were Militarized Police Manuel García, Jr. 80 years ago this week, on 22 June 1941, Operation Barbarossa — the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union — was launched.

German prosecutors are intensifying their hunt for aging Nazi war criminals still at large by expanding investigations into death squads known as the "Einsatzgruppen," which were responsible for ...

The Einsatzgruppen Trial became the largest murder trial in history. Of the 24 people indicted, all were convicted, and 13 received death sentences. In his opening statement at Nuremberg, ...

Lee Spielmann[/caption] Commencing in September 1947 and concluding the following April, ranking members of the “Einsatzgruppen,” part of Nazi Germany’s SS and Police apparatus, were ...

BERLIN — German prosecutors are investigating a suspected former member of Adolf Hitler's mobile killing squads for involvement in World War II massacres carried out by the "Einsatzgruppen ...

Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103. At 27, he prosecuted Nazis for more than 1 million deaths in perhaps the largest murder case in history ...

Ben Ferencz was born in present-day Romania in 1920. When he was ten months old, his family emigrated to the United States, eventually settling in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City.

Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades The harrowing two-part, three-hour docu "Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades" exhaustively chronicles the lethal work of an SS band charged with exterminating ...