We offer you the chance to get a true rarity! A ground dug ID tag that belonged to a member of the infamous Einsatzgruppen, the Nazi mobile death squads that were responsible for the mass executions and the most horrible crimes in the East, killing thousands of Jews during the Holocaust period, as well as communist commissars, partisans or intelligentsia members. These squads, created by Himmler and Heydrich and under their supervision, operated in territories occupied by the German armed forces following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Operation Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union) launched from occupied Poland in June 1941. The Einsatzgruppen worked hand-in-hand with the Orpo Police Battalions on the Eastern Front to carry out operations ranging from the murder of a few people to operations which lasted over two or more days, such as the massacre at Babi Yar with 33,771 Jews killed in two days, and the Rumbula massacre (with about 25,000 killed in two days of shooting). As ordered by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Wehrmacht cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen and provided logistical support for their operations. Historian Raul Hilberg estimates that between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen and related auxiliary troops killed more than two million people, including 1.3 million Jews. The total number of Jews murdered during the Holocaust is estimated at 5.5 to 6 million people. Einsatzgruppen were formed by ordinary people, Police members, doctors, teachers and also reservists or auxiliary people from occupied countries such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, etc. who were also very anti-Semitic people and collaborated with the Germans in extermination works.

This ID tag is sadly clipped but complete, and perfectly legible, with the text: "Sicherheitspolizei Einsatz-Kdo. 14364". It was found during some excavations carried out in Estonia years ago. Finding these ID tags is very difficult, so this is a great chance to get one for your collection!