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What pressures and motivations may have affected these soldiers to volunteer for

the Einsatzgruppen and later murder innocent civilians?

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The Einsatzgruppen (task forces, special action groups) were units of the Security Police and SD (the SS intelligence service) that followed the German army as it invaded and occupied countries in Europe. Often referred to as “mobile killing squads,” they are best known for their role in the systematic murder of Jews in mass shooting operations on Soviet territory.

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