Two suspected members of Adolf Hitler’s mobile “Einsatzgruppen” death squads identified by the Simon Wiesenthal Center have been tracked down by German reporters but deny participating in wartime massacres.
The Einsatzgruppen were special units made up of SS and police personnel that followed behind the regular German army troops during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, with the task of killing perceived racial or political enemies of the Nazi regime.
The two suspects located by broadcaster ARD’s Politikmagazin Kontraste program, being aired Thursday night, both appear on Nazi-era roster lists of an SS unit that was attached to Einsatzgruppe C.
Einsatzgruppe C was responsible for one of the most notorious massacres, the shooting of nearly 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of the Ukrainian city of Kiev, on September 29-30, 1941.
The two elderly men were both on a list of 80 former Einsatzgruppen members provided in late 2014 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to German authorities with the expectation that they could still be alive.
— AP
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