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 photo shows Polish women led to mass execution in a forest near the village of Palmiry. After the war the woman in the foreground was identified as Janina Skalska.

---

Size: 1800px × 1250px
Photo credit: © CBW / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 2, crime, crimes, einsatzgruppen, european, execution, executions, extermination, genocide, germany, holocaust, humanity, ii, inhuman, inhumanity, janina, jewry, jews, massacre, member, members, national, nazi, nazis, palmiry, party, poland, polish, reich, shoah, skalska, socialist, war, women, world, ww, ww2, wwii