What is Einsatzgruppen?
{{Infobox government agency | agency_name = ''Einsatzgruppen'' | nativename = | nativename_a = | nativename_r = | logo = Flag Schutzstaffel.svg | logo_width = 100px | logo_caption = The ''Einsatzgruppen'' was controlled by the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (SS) | seal = | seal_width = | seal_caption = | picture = Jew_Killings_in_Ivangorod_(1942).jpg | picture_width = 250px | picture_caption = A Jewish operation in Ivanhorod. Photograph taken in Ukraine, 1942. | formed = [[circa|c.]] 1939 | jurisdiction = {{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} [[Nazi Germany]]<br />Nazi-[[occupied territory|occupied]] [[Europe]] | employees = About 3,000 c. 1941 | budget = | minister1_name = [[Heinrich Himmler]] | minister1_pfo = Head of the SS | minister2_name = | minister2_pfo = | chief1_name = [[Reinhard Heydrich]] | chief1_position = Head of the ''Einsatzgruppen'' (1939–1942) | chief2_name = Dr. [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] | chief2_position = Head of the ''Einsatzgruppen'' (1943–1945) | agency_type = | parent_agency = [[File:Flag Schutzstaffel.svg|23px]] [[Allgemeine SS]] and [[Reich Main Security Office]] | child1_agency = | child2_agency = | child3_agency = | website = | footnotes = Murdered 2 million people, including 1.3 million [[Jew]]s }} ''The '''Einsatzgruppen''''' were a [[paramilitary]] group in [[Nazi Germany]] created by the notorious [[SS|Nazi SS-Gestapo Officer]] [[Reinhard Heydrich]] . They were part of the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' ([[SS]]). They helped make [[The Holocaust]] happen by [[Mass murder|murdering]] about 12 million people throughout [[Europe]]. Almost all of the people they killed were [[civilian]]s. Sometimes, the ''Einsatzgruppen'' would kill only a few people at once. Other times, they would [[mass murder|kill thousands]] of people in a few days. For example, at [[Babi Yar]], the ''Einsatzgruppen'' killed 33,771 [[Jew]]ish people in two days. Most of the people the ''Einsatzgruppen'' killed were Jews. They killed between 5 and 6 million Jews.<ref name=rhodes>{{cite book | last = Rhodes | first = R