How did the Nazis kill so many people? This question is important because, one way or another, the Nazis managed to kill over 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the SS deployed Killing Squads that were characterized by their tactics, important dates, and impact on the Final Solution. The Killing Squads managed to find a tactic for rapid destruction. This is a crucial part of the subject because understanding how the Killing Squads kill could show why they were able to kill so many Jews, Gypsies and communist leaders. The Killing Squad were also called death squads, mobile extermination units and Einsatzgruppen. Death squads were often composed of German SS and police officers (USHMM). This means that the death squads had some military experience. Death squads act quickly, usually attacking the Jewish population by surprise (USHMM). This is also why they were called mobile extermination units. Killing Squads would enter towns and round up people, usually in large open areas. It is easier to dig mass graves in open areas than to put the dead there. After the victims gave their valuables to the extermination squad and stripped naked, they were gassed in vans, shot in trenches or shot in prepared pits (USHMM). The people gassed in the vans were killed by carbon monoxide produced by the van because the exhaust pipes were blocked. These research findings reveal the harsh tactics of death squads. The squads don't care how the Jews died, as long as it was cheap. There are also some dates when large numbers of Jews died. This is important to the subject because it shows the devastation that death squads can cause. When the Soviet Union invaded in June 1941, death squads followed the German army. Their orders were to destroy all Jews, communists and Gypsies. “By the end of 1942, more than a million Soviet Jews were dead” (USHMM). That’s a huge number of people dying in just six months. During the summer of 1942, 137,346 Jews were killed according to the report of SS Karl Jaegers. Almost all Jews in Lithuania's small towns are killed. 35,000 survivors are subjected to forced labor (USHMM). There was no good outcome for the Jews. It was either die or go into labor. Facts and figures show the massive number of Jews killed. The massacres would be even greater if the period of time were to lengthen. The presence of the Death Squad impacted the Final Solution..