The unit selected for this task would enter a village or cit…

The unit selected fоr this tаsk wоuld enter а villаge оr city and order the prominent Jewish  citizens to call together all Jews for the purpose of resettlement. They were requested to hand  over their valuables to the leaders of the unit, and shortly before the execution to surrender their  outer clothing. The men, women, and children were led to a place of execution which in most  cases was located next to a more deeply excavated anti-tank ditch. Then they were shot,  kneeling or standing, and the corpses thrown into the ditch.  —Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, vol. 5, 1946  How does the action described in the passage above fit the definition of genocide?