Einsatzkommando Egypt (German: Einsatzkommando Ägypten) was the name assigned to an SS unit led by SS-Obersturmbannführer Walther Rauff, which was formed in occupied Greece during World War II awaiting deployment to North Africa, once the Afrika Korps had conquered Egypt and moved into Mandatory Palestine.[1] Einsatzkommandos ("deployment commandos") were paramilitary death squads that operated within German occupied territories.
Historians Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers [de], based on archival research, state that the unit's purpose was to carry out a mass killing of the Jewish populations in Mandatory Palestine and Egypt.[2] Despite the word "Palestine" never being mentioned in the archival documents, the researchers state that the unit's objective was to go there in order to enact systematic mass murder of Jews.[3] Given its small staff of only 24 men, Mallmann and Cüppers theorize the unit would have needed help from local residents and from the Afrika Korps to complete their assignment.[4] On 20 July 1942 Rauff was sent to Tobruk to report to Rommel, Commander of the Afrika Korps. But since Rommel was 500 km away at the First Battle of El Alamein, it is unlikely that the two were able to meet.[4][5]
The plans for Einsatzkommando Egypt were set aside after the Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein.[6]
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^Mallmann & Cüppers 2006.
^Mallmann, Klaus-Michael; Cüppers, Martin (2006), Jürgen Matthäus, Klaus-Michael Mallmann (Hrsg.) (ed.), "'Beseitigung der jüdisch-nationalen Heimstätte in Palästina.' Das Einsatzkommando bei der Panzerarmee Afrika 1942", Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
^ abMallmann, Cüppers & Smith 2010.
^Shepherd 2016, p. 357.
^Krumenacker 2006.
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