Einsatzgruppe zur besonderen Verwendung

Himmler unleashed the Einsatzgruppe zur besonderen Verwendung on the industrial areas in Upper Silesia and western Galicia in order to 'radically subdue the exploding Polish insurgency'.

SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs.