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'''Einsatzgruppe Egypt''' (German: {{lang|de|Einsatzgruppe Ägypten}}) was 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]].<ref>[http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/studies/vol35/Mallmann-Cuppers2.pdf Archived copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828071358/https://www.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/studies/vol35/Mallmann-Cuppers2.pdf |date=2019-08-28 }}</ref> [[Einsatzgruppen]] ("deployment groups") were paramilitary death squads that operated within German occupied territories.<br />
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Historians [[Klaus-Michael Mallmann]] and {{ill|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 the [[Mandatory Palestine|British mandate of Palestine]] and [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]].{{sfn|Mallmann|Cüppers|2006|p=}} 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.<ref>{{citation |first1=Klaus-Michael |last1=Mallman |author-link=Klaus-Michael Mallmann |first2=Martin |last2=Cüppers |title='Beseitigung der jüdisch-nationalen Heimstätte in Palästina.' Das Einsatzkommando bei der Panzerarmee Afrika 1942|editor= [[Jürgen Matthäus]], Klaus-Michael Mallmann (Hrsg.) |work=Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart |publisher= Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft |location= Darmstadt |date=2006 <!-- Veröffentlichungen der Forschungsstelle Ludwigsburg der Universität Stuttgart, Bd. 7 -->}}</ref> 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.{{sfn|Mallmann|Cüppers|Smith|2022}} On 20 July 1942 Rauff was sent to [[Tobruk]] to report to Rommel, Commander of the ''Afrika Korps''. But since Rommel was 500&nbsp;km away at the [[First Battle of El Alamein]], it is unlikely that the two were able to meet.{{sfn|Mallmann|Cüppers|Smith|2022}}{{sfn|Shepherd|2016|p=357}}<br />
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According to historian Haim Saadon, Director of the Center of Research on North African Jewry in World War II, Rauff's documents show that his foremost concern was assisting the Wehrmacht, rather than extermination of Jews, and his plan for this was to place the Jews in forced labour camps. In relative terms, the North African Jews escaped the Final Solution.{{sfn|Benishay|2022}}{{sfn|Cohen|2022}}<br />
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The plans for ''Einsatzgruppe'' Egypt were set aside after the Allied victory at the [[Second Battle of El Alamein]].{{sfn|Krumenacker|2022}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[200 days of dread]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{cite news|last1=Benishay|first1=Guitel|title=Le journal de bord du chef SS en Tunisie découvert|url=http://www.lphinfo.com/le-journal-de-bord-du-chef-ss-en-tunisie-decouvert/|access-date=18 July 2017|work=LPH info |publisher=Création Bereshit Agency|date=4 May 2016 |language=fr}}<br />
* {{cite news|last1=Cohen|first1=Nir|title=Inside the diary of SS officer known as gas chamber 'mastermind'|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4647858,00.html|access-date=18 July 2017|agency=Ynetnews|publisher=Yedioth Internet|date=17 April 2022}}<br />
* {{cite book|last1=Shepherd|first1=Ben H.|author-link = Ben H. Shepherd|title=Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich|date=28 June 2016|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-19-507903-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h7AODAAAQBAJ&pg=PT587}}<br />
* {{cite book | last1 = Mallmann | first1 = Klaus-Michael | last2 = Cüppers | first2 = Martin | last3 = Smith | first3 = Krista | title = Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine | publisher = Enigma | location = New York | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-929631-93-3 }}<br />
* {{cite web | last = Krumenacker | first = Thomas | title = Nazis Planned Holocaust for Palestine: historians | publisher = Red Orbit | date = 7 April 2006 | url = http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/462094/nazis_planned_holocaust_for_palestine_historians/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052813/http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/462094/nazis_planned_holocaust_for_palestine_historians/ | archive-date = 22 December 2017 | access-date = 10 June 2018 }}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Miner |first1=Samuel |title=Planning the Holocaust in the Middle East: Nazi Designs to Bomb Jewish Cities in Palestine |journal=[[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs|Jewish Political Studies Review]] |date=2016 |volume=27 |issue=3/4 |pages=7–33 |jstor=44510568 |issn=0792-335X}}<br />
*{{citation |last1= Mallmann |first1= Klaus-Michael |last2= Cüppers |first2= Martin |date=2007 |title='Elimination of the Jewish National Home in Palestine': The Einsatzkommando of the Panzer Army Africa, 1942 |work=Yad Vashem Studies |volume=35 |number=1 |pages=1–31 |issn=0084-3296}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OcZ7d2lYsA&ab_channel=MarkFeltonProductions Afrika Korps War Crimes - The "War Without Hate" Myth], by [[Mark Felton]]<br />
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