
Season 1 (2009)
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Episodes 4
1
Mass Graves (June-August 1941)
April 16, 2009
• 46m
This first episode provides context for when, how and why the mobile death squads, or EZG, were established.
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2
Judenfrei (September-December 1941)
April 16, 2009
• 48m
In December 1941, after the EZG’s intervention, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic states are declared “Judenfrei”: free of Jews.
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3
The Pyres (1942–1943)
April 23, 2009
• 42m
Faced with the advancing Soviet troops, Nazi Germany decides to have the bodies of death camp victims dug up and burned in graves.
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4
The Reckoning (1943–1947)
Season Finale
April 23, 2009
• 47m
After being judged at the Nuremberg trials, the majority of those responsible for the murder of nearly 1.5 million Jews would walk free in the 1950s.
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