Einsatzkommando Egypt
Einsatzkommando Egypt (German: ) was the name assigned to an Schutzstaffel, SS unit led by SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff, Walther Rauff, which was formed in Axis occupation of Greece, occupied Greece during World War II awaiting deployment to North Africa, once the ''Afrika Korps'' had conquered Egypt and moved into Mandatory Palestine. Einsatzkommandos ("deployment commandos") were paramilitary death squads that operated within German occupied territories. Historians Klaus-Michael Mallmann and , 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 Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt. The researchers state that the unit's objective was to go there in order to enact systematic mass murder of Jews. 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. On 20 July 1942, Rauff ...
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Walter Rauff (Walther Rauff, 1945)
Walter (Walther) Rauff (19 June 1906 – 14 May 1984) was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany. From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Service (''Sicherheitsdienst'' or ''SD''), later in the Reich Security Main Office. He worked for the Federal Intelligence Service of West Germany (''Bundesnachrichtendienst'') between 1958 and 1962, and was subsequently employed by the Mossad, the Israeli secret service. Recruited by Augusto Pinochet, Rauff played a role in the creation of the Chilean internal security apparatus during the military dictatorship. His funeral in Santiago, Chile, was attended by several former Nazis. Rauff is accused by Jewish sources of being responsible for nearly 100,000 deaths during World War II. Among other actions, he was instrumental in the use of mobile gas chambers for the execution of prisoners. He was arrested in 1945, but subsequently escaped and was never brought to trial. From the Navy to the SS Accord ...
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