‘So, we've finished off the first Jews’: SS-Einsatzkommando 9 and deployment in the East, June–July 1941
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2016

Although the SS-Einsatzgruppen had been deployed in previous military campaigns, they operated during the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 for the first time officially under the title ‘Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD’. Three of the Einsatzgruppen, A to C, were assigned to each of the three Army Groups, North (for the Baltic), Centre (for Belarus) and South (for northern and central Ukraine), whilst the fourth – Einsatzgruppe D – was assigned to the German 11th Army, wh