5 sentences with 'squads'
Example sentences and phrases with the word squads and other words derived from it.
• « Instead, squads of pikemen (i.e. soldiers fighting with long spears called pikes) supplemented by soldiers wielding primitive muskets neutralised the effectiveness of the knights. »
• « Instead, the initial task of the Nazi murder squads was the elimination of the Polish "ruling class", which came to mean intellectuals, politicians, communists and Catholic priests. »
• « At least 50,000 Polish social, political and intellectual elites were murdered by SS death squads or regular German soldiers in a campaign called "Operation Tannenberg". »
• « As German armies advanced into Soviet territory, they were followed by four teams of Einsatzgruppen - mobile killing squads - tasked with killing "Jews, Gypsies and the disabled". The Einsatzgruppen's technique for murdering their victims was to march the Jews into the woods or camps and systematically shoot them. »