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GCSE History · key term
Nazi Security Police and Security Service units that followed German forces into occupied territory and carried out mass killings, especially of Jews.
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Paper 1
Nazi mobile killing units that carried out mass shootings, particularly of Jews, in occupied Eastern Europe.
Revise: Social Policy and PracticeEinsatzgruppen, mobile killing units, carried out mass shootings in Eastern Europe. Killing therefore did not take place only inside camps, and mass murder was already underway before the Wannsee Conference.
Paper 1
Revise: Nazi Racial Policy and the HolocaustSS and police units, including the Einsatzgruppen, followed German troops into newly occupied territory. They carried out mass shootings intended to annihilate entire Jewish communities.
Paper 3
Mobile units of the German Security Police and Security Service that carried out mass killings, especially in the occupied Soviet Union.
Revise: The HolocaustEinsatzgruppen—mobile units of the German Security Police and Security Service—followed German troops into occupied Soviet territory. Alongside other SS and police units, they carried out shooting operations intended to destroy entire Jewish communities.
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