Einsatzgruppe Egypt (German: Einsatzgruppe Ägypten) was a special mobile SS death squad. According to historians Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers, their purpose was to carry out a mass killing of Jews in British mandate of Palestine similar to the way they operated in eastern Europe. "Einsatzgruppe Egypt" was standing by in Athens and was ready to disembark for Palestine in the summer of 1942, attached to the "Afrika Korps" led by the famed desert commander General Erwin Rommel.