00:00Just before the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen, which were Nazi mobile death squads that had operated
00:07in Poland, were reformed under the command of Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Security Main Office.
00:14Arthur Nebbe volunteered to lead Einsatzgruppe B, an SS death squad in the Army Group Center rear area, in today's
00:22Belarus.
00:22Their task was to exterminate Jews and other undesirables, including Communists, Roman Sinti people, Asiatics, the Disabled, and psychiatric hospital
00:34patients in the conquered territories.
00:37The Einsatzgruppe also executed hostages and prisoners of war handed over by the German Army.
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