The war against the Soviet Union was bound up with mass murder from the very beginning.
Einsatzgruppen (task forces) of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Service), Waffen-SS (armed SS) divisions, Ordnungspolizei (order police) battalions and secret military police murdered Communist officials, and, from August 1941 at the latest, all Jews were also systematically murdered.
Roma and other groups of civilians in the Soviet population also became victims of the mass shootings.
www.obersalzberg.deDer Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion war von Anfang an mit Massenmorden verbunden.
Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, Brigaden der Waffen-SS, Bataillone der Ordnungspolizei und Geheime Feldpolizei ermordeten kommunistische Funktionäre und spätestens ab August 1941 auch Juden in großer Zahl.
Den Massenerschießungen fielen auch "Zigeuner" und andere Gruppen von Zivilisten zum Opfer.
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