I can get behind the term ā€œmasked thugsā€, just as the Einsatzgruppen were thugs. The correct term might be paramilitary secret police, which puts them in that sweet spot where they basically don’t have to answer to anyone…Like the Gestapo. The cure for those kinds of people is at the end of a rope.
ysk that Einsatzgruppe is just the German word for ā€œtask forceā€. What you’re referring to only makes sense when you specify you mean one of the SS.

The ā€œEinsatzgruppenā€ were a gaggle of former or current cops, aging reservists and some volunteers who were sent in after the Wehrmacht had taken a territory.

Their job was to shoot Jews and Partisans. While ā€œEinsatzgruppeā€ is the German word for Task Force, talking about the ā€œEinsatzgruppenā€ always refers to these groups in the Third Reich.

it’s literally in the German dictionary. the firebrigades have Einsatzgruppen here too, fir example.

some probably nazi professor getting a German boner when he doesn’t translate the title of units properly, doesn’t change reality.