This invaluable work traces the role of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD, the core group of Himmler s murder units involved in the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, during and immediately after the German campaign in Poland in 1939. In addition to relevant Einsatzgruppen reports, the book includes key documents from other sources, especially eyewitness accounts from victims or onlookers. Such accounts provide an alternative, often much more realistic, perspective on the nature and consequences of the actions previously known only through documentation generated by the...