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Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Philipp Moog

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  2. Christopher R. Browning

    Self - Historian

  3. Hilary Earl

    Self - Historian

  4. Stefan Klemp

    Self - Historian

  5. Stefan Kühl

    Self - Sociologist

  6. Harald Welzer

    Self - Social Psychologist

  7. Cast 1

    Benjamin Ferencz

    Self - Jurist

  8. Cast 1

    Markus Friedmann

    Reenactment Performer

  9. Philine Conrad

    Reenactment Performer

Interesting and sad documentary about the Einsatzgruppen (firing squads) of Germany's WWII, that was considered as a privileged group as they didn't had to go to the fronts, instead of the Wehrmacht (war forces). Seeing by a group of german psychologists and american lawyers, they didn't know at first what they would had to do in the future, and it wasn't an obligation - but those who recused were ostracized by the companions. An american lawyer, Benjamin Ferencz, was one of the wisest lawyers that I've seen he insisted on the Nuremberg Trials, and proved they albeight of the crime bei...