The early phase of the Holocaust was not with gas chambers but mobile execution squads known as Enisatzgruppen. Their task was to roam behind teh front lines shooting all the Jews they could. They killed an estimated two million people. This image shows the massacre of Paneriai near Vilnius (Lituania) where 100,000 Jews were shot by the nazis in 1941

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