Einsatzkommando
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'''''Einsatzkommando''''' refers to a sub-group of the five [[Einsatzgruppen]] mobile killing squads — 3,000 men — responsible for systematically killing every Jew and Soviet political commissar behind the Wehrmacht lines of [[Operation Barbarossa]].
As a military term, the German ''Einsatzkommando'' (mission commando) is roughly equivalent to the English, ''task force'', nevertheless, the denotation and the connotation clearly communicate that the commando had only one task.
=Command=
===Organization of the Einsatzgruppen===
The Einsatzgruppen were part of the SS. They were created at the direction of Hitler and Himmler by Heydrich the Chief of the [[Sicherheitspolizei|Security Police]] and [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]], who was Himmler's right hand man, and operated under the direct control of the RSHA, the [[RSHA|Reich Security Main Office]], one of the most important of the twelve main offices of the SS.
The Einsatzgruppen were formed in the spring of 1941. In anticipation of the [[Operation Barbarossa|assault on Russia]], Hitler issued an order directing that the SD and the Security Police be called in to assist the army in breaking every means of resistance behind the fighting front. The [[Generalquartiermeister des Heeres|Quartermaster General of the Army]], General [[Eduard Wagner|Wagner]], representing Keitel, the Chief of the [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht|Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht]], met Heydrich, Chief of the [[Sicherheitspolizei|Security Police]] and [[Sicherheitsdienst|Security Service]].These two men reached an agreement concerning the activation, commitment, command, and jurisdiction of units of the [[Sicherheitspolizei|Security Police]] and [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]] within the framework of the army. The Einsatzgruppen were to function in the rear operational areas '''''in administrative subordination to the field armies''''' in order to carry out these tasks as directed by Heydrich and Himmler.
Nor were the commanders of the armed forces ignorant of the task of the Einsatzgruppen. Hitler himself instructed them that it was the mission of these special task forces to exterminate all Jews and political commissars in their assigned territories. The Einsatzgruppen were dependent upon the army commander for their billets, food, and transport; relations between armed forces and the Security Police and SD were close and almost cordial, and the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen reported again and again that the understanding of the army commanders for the task of the Einsatzgruppen made their operations considerably easier.
In the beginning four such Einsatzgruppen were formed, each of which was attached to an army group. Einsatzgruppe A was attached to [[Army Group North]], Einsatzgruppe B was attached to [[Army Group Center]], Einsatzgruppe C was attached to [[Army Group South]] and Einsatzgruppe D was assigned to the [[German Eleventh Army|llth German Army]]
The officer strength of the Einsatzgruppen was drawn from the [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]], [[Waffen-SS]], [[Kriminalpolizei|Criminal Police (Kripo)]] and [[Gestapo]]. The enlisted forces were composed of the [[Waffen SS]], the [[Ordnungspolizei|regular police]], the [[Gestapo]], and locally-recruited police.
When occasion demanded, the Wehrmacht commanders would bolster the strength of the Einsatzgruppen with contingents of their own.
''Trials of War Criminals Before the [[Nuremberg Trials|Nurenberg Military Tribunals]] Under Control Council Law No. 10, Volume IV, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 35 -36
==[[Army Group North]]==
(on invasion day)
[[Generalfeldmarschall]] [[Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb]]
[[Eighteenth Army (Germany)|18th Army]] [[Generaloberst]] [[Georg von Kuchler]]
(commander Army Group North 17.January 1942 | Generalfeldmarschall 30. Juni 1942)
[[Sixteenth Army (Germany)|16th Army ]][[Generaloberst]] [[Ernst Busch (military)|Ernst Busch]]
(Generalfeldmarschal 1943-2-1)
[[Panzergruppe 4|4th Panzer Group]] [[Generaloberst]] [[Erich Hoepner|Erich Hoepner]]
(made Commander in Chief of the renamed [[Fourth Panzer Army (Germany)|4th Panzer Army]] for [[Operation Typhoon|''Operation Typhoon'']], cashiered after withdrawing 7 January in the face of Red Army winter offensive, Hung 1944-8-8 for part in [[July 20 Plot|assassination attempt on Hitler]])
[[Army Group C]] was renamed [[Army Group North]] for the Russian invasion, the [[Eighteenth Army (Germany)|18th Army]], [[Sixteenth Army (Germany)|16th Army ]] and the [[Panzergruppe 4|4th Panzer Group]] were added, for a total of 26 divisions. Army Group North was to attack through Kovno and Dvinsk, cut off the Soviet forces in the Baltic States, and take Leningrad.
===Einsatzgruppe A===
''"Einsatz group A, after preparing their vehicles for action; proceeded to their area of concentration, as ordered, on 23rd June, 1941, the second day of the campaign in the East. Army Group North consisting of the 16th and 18th Armies and Panzer Group 4 had left the day before."''
''"Our task was hurriedly to establish personal contact with the commanders of the armies and with the commander of the army of the rear area. It must be stressed from the beginning that co-operation with the armed forces was generally good, in some cases, for instance, with [[Panzergruppe 4|Panzer Group 4]] under General [[Erich Hoepner|Hoepner]], it was very close, almost cordial."''
''"At the start of the Eastern campaign it became obvious with regard to the Security Police that its special work had to be done not only in the rear area of the armies as was provided for in the original agreements with the [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht|High Command of the Army]], but also in the combat areas."''
''Einsatzgruppe A'' was assembled in Guimbinnen in east Prussia on June 23 1941. Stahlecker, the first commander of the unit ordered it to concentrate along the Lithuanian border. Soviet troops withdrew from the Lithuanian capital Kaunas(Kovno) on 22 June 1941 and the city was taken over by partisans. On 25 June the Einsatzgruppe entered Kaunas with the units of the German army.
1. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. [[Walter Stahlecker]] – (22RD JUNE 1941-23RD MARCH 1942)
2. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei [[Heinz Jost]] – (29TH MARCH 1942-2ND SEPTEMBER 1942)
3. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. [[Hubert-Achamer Pifräder]] – (10TH SEPTEMBER 1942-4TH SEPTEMBER 1943)
4. SS-Oberführer [[Friedrich Panziger]] – (5TH SEPTEMBER 1943-6TH MAY 1944)
5. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. [[Wilhelm Fuchs]] – (6TH MAY 1944-10TH OCTOBER 1944)
====Sonderkommando 1a====
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. [[Martin Sandberger]] – (JUNE 1941-1943)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer [[Bernhard Baatz]] – (1ST AUGUST 1943-15TH OCTOBER 1944)
====Sonderkommando 1b====
1. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. [[Erich Ehrlinger]] – (JUNE 1941-NOVEMBER 1941)
2. SS-Sturmbannführer [[Walter Hoffmann]] – (AS DEPUTY) – (JANUARY 1942-MARCH 1942)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. [[Eduard Strauch]] – (MARCH 1942-AUGUST 1942)
4. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. [[Erich Isselhorst]] – (30TH JUNE 1943-1ST OCTOBER 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 1a====
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. [[Martin Sandberger]] – (JUNE 1942-1942)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer [[Karl Tschierschky]] – (1942)
3. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. [[Erich Isselhorst]] (NOVEMBER 1942-JUNE 1943)
4. SS-Obersturmbannführer [[Bernhard Baatz]] – (JUNE 1943-AUGUST 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 1b====
1. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. [[Hermann Hubig]] – (JUNE 1941-OCTOBER 1942)
2. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. [[Manfred Pechau]] (OCTOBER 1942-NOVEMBER 1942)
====Einsatzkommando 1c====
1. SS-Sturmbannführer [[Kurt Graaf]] – (1ST AUGUST 1942-28TH NOVEMBER 1942)
====Einsatzkommando 2====
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer [[Rudolf Batz]] – (JUNE 1941-4TH NOVEMBER 1941)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. [[Eduard Strauch]] – (4TH NOVEMBER 1941-2ND DECEMBER 1941)
3. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. [[Rudolf Lange]] – (3RD DECEMBER 1941-1944)
4. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. [[Manfred Pechau]] – (OCTOBER 1942)
5. SS-Sturmbannführer [[Reinhard Breder]] – (26TH MARCH 1943-JULY 1943)
6. SS-Obersturmbannführer [[Oswald Poche]] – (30th JULY 1943-2ND MARCH 1944)
====Einsatzkommando 3====
1. SS-Standartenführer [[Karl Jäger]] – (JUNE 1941-1ST AUGUST 1943) '''See Jäger Report Below'''
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. [[Wilhelm Fuchs]] – (15TH SEPTEMBER 1943-27TH MAY 1944)
3. SS-Sturmbannführer [[Hans-Joachim Böhme]] – (11TH MAY 1944-JULY 1944)
[[Jäger Report]]
Author of the most precise surviving chronicle of the activities of one individual Einsatzkommando. The Jäger Report is a tally sheet of actions by Einsatzkommando 3, which keeps a running total of the liquidations of 136,421 Jews (46,403 men 55,556 women and 34,464 children), 1,064 Communists, 653 mental disabled, and 134 others from 2 July 1941. to 1 Dec 1941.
The Report is available below.
A second major "sweep" took place in 1942 before the Death camp killing process took the place of Einsatzkommando open pit executions.
Einsatzkommando 3 operated in the Kovno (Kaunis) district, to the west of Vilna (Vinius) in what is present day Lithuania.
==[[Army Group Center]]==
===Einsatzgruppe B===
The command of Einsatzgruppe B was begun under [[Arthur Nebe]]. In November 1941 Nebe returned in Germany yielding the command of the Einsatzgruppe B to Erich Naumann who led it until 12 March 1943. Horst Bõhme took over from Naumann until 28 August 1943. After 1943 the mass killing operations of Einsatzgruppe B diminished in intensity and the command was entrusted to Erich Ehrlinger until April 28 1944. The last commander was Heinz Seetzen. In August 1944 the Einsatzgruppe was decommissioned.On November 14 1941 Nebe communicated to Berlin that up till then 45,000 persons had been eliminated. A further report on December 15 1942 established that the Einsatzgruppe B had shot in all 134,298 persons.
1. SS-Gruppenführer und Generalmajor der Polizei [[Arthur Nebe]] – (JUNE 1941-NOVEMBER 1941)
2. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei [[Erich Naumann]] – (NOVEMBER 1941-MARCH 1943)
3. SS-Standartenführer Horst-Alwin Böhme – (12TH MARCH 1943-28TH AUGUST 1943)
4. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Erich Ehrlinger – (28TH AUGUST 1943-APRIL 1944)
5. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Heinz Seetzen – (28TH APRIL 1944-AUGUST 1944)
6. SS-Standartenführer Horst-Alwin Böhme – (12TH AUGUST 1944-)
EXECUTED.....................134.298
Einsatzgruppe B moved out on the 24 of June 1941 from the city of Poznan. Sonderkommando 7a attached to the [[German 9th Army|9th Army]] under General [[Otto Colinburg-Bodigheim]] and was moved to Vilna where on the 30th of June to 3rd July it commenced mass killing operations. Vilna soon fell under the sphere of command of Einsatzgruppe A and Sonderkommando 7a was transferred to Minsk. [[Arthur Nebe|Nebe]] consolidated Einsatzgruppe B near Minsk and established general quarters around 5th July remaining for approximately two months. Nebe determined that Sonderkommando 7a and 7b together with the Vorkommando Moskau would follow in the wake of the advancing [[Army Group Center]] while Einsatzkommando 8 and the 9 would "clean up" to the sides of the spearhead. In compliance with these orders Einsatzkommando 8 reached [[Battle of Białystok-Minsk|Bialystock]] 1st July passing through [[Slonim]] and Baranovichi and began mass killing operations in southern Bielorussia. On 5 August Nebe gave order to move the command of the Einsatzgruppe to Smolensk where the Vorkommando Moskau had been concentrated. On 6 August Einsatzkommando 8 reached [[Battle of Białystok-Minsk|Minsk ]] and remained until September 9 1941. From Minsk it reached Mogilev which became its general quarters. From Mogilev Einsatzkommando 8 carried out successive killing "actions" in Bobruisk, Gomel, Roslav and Klinzy systematically attacking the local Jewish communities, and eradicating their inhabitants. Meanwhile Einsatzkommando 9 was put to work. The unit had moved out from Treuburg in eastern Prussia and had reached Vilna 2 July. The main theater of operations for its killings were [[Grodno]] and [[Bielsk-Podlaski]](Biala-Podlaska).The 20 July it moved general quarters to Vitbesk carrying out extermination operations on the citizens of Polotzk, Nevel, Lepel and Surazh. The command came to move ahead to Vtasma and from there killing operations proceeded against the human beings in the communities of Gshatsk and Mozhaisk in the vicinity of Moscow. The Soviet counter-offensive forced the Einsatzkommando to withdraw to Vitbesk 21 December 1941. In anticipation of the fall of [[Battle of Moscow|Moscow]] the Vorkommando Moskau had advanced up to [[Maloyaroslavets]], captured by the German army on October 18, 1941. In practice Sonderkommando 7a and 7b operated behind the vanguard of the army. Actions were fast and furious in order to prevent Jews from escaping the German advance. To the South and east of Smolensk and Minsk the two Sonderkommando left a wake of mass killings from Veliki-Luki, Kalinin, Orsha, Gomel, Tsernigov and Orel, to Kursk.
====Sonderkommando 7a====
Vilna, Nevel, Gorodoik, Vitbesk, Welish, Rshev, Vyasma, Kalinin, Klinzy
EXECUTIONS......6.788
1. SS-Standartenführer Dr. Walter Blume – (JUNE 1941-SEPTEMBER 1941)
2. SS-Standartenführer Eugen Steimle – (SEPTEMBER 1941-DECEMBER 1941)
3. SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt Matschke – (DECEMBER 1941-FEBRUARY 1942)
4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Albert Rapp – (FEBRUARY 1942-28TH JANUARY 1943)
5. SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Looss – (JUNE 1943-JUNE 1944)
6. SS-Sturmbannführer Gerhard Bast – (JUNE 1944-OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1944)
====Sonderkommando 7b====
Brest-Litovsk, Kobrin, Pruzhany, Slonim, Baranovichi, Minsk, Orsha, Klinzy, Briansk, Kursk, Tserigov, Orel
EXECUTIONS......6.788
1. SS-Sturmbannführer Günther Rausch – (JUNE 1941-JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1942)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Ott – (FEBRUARY 1942-JANUARY 1943)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Josef Auinger – (JULY 1942-JANUARY 1943)
4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl-Georg Rabe – (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1943 – OCTOBER 1944)
====Sonderkommando 7c====
See Vorkommando Moskau
1. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Bock – (JUNE 1942)
2. SS-Hauptsturmführer Ernst Schmücker – (JUNE 1942-1942)
3. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Blühm – (1942-JULY 1943)
4. SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Eckhardt – (JULY 1943-DECEMBER 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 8 ====
Volkovisk, Baranovichi, Bobruisk, Lahoysk, Mogilev and Minsk
EXECUTIONS......74.740
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Otto Bradfisch – (JUNE 1941-1ST APRIL 1942)
2. SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Richter – (1ST APRIL 1942-SEPTEMBER 1942)
3. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Isselhorst – (SEPTEMBER 1942-NOVEMBER 1942)
4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans-Gerhard Schindhelm – (7TH NOVEMBER 1942-OCTOBER 1943)
5. SS-Sturmbannführer Alfred Rendörffer - (?)
====Einsatzkommando 9====
Vilna, Grodno, Lida, Bielsk-Podlaski, Nevel, Lepel, Surazh, Vyasma, Gshatsk, Mozhaisk, Vitbesk, Smolensk, Varena.
EXECUTIONS......41.340
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Alfred Filbert – (JUNE 1941-20TH OCTOBER 1941)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Oswald Schäfer – (OCTOBER 1941-FEBRUARY 1942)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Wiebens – (FEBRUARY 1942-JANUARY 1943)
4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Friedrich Buchardt – (JANUARY 1943-OCTOBER 1944)
5. SS-Sturmbannführer Werner Kämpf – (OCTOBER 1943-MARCH 1944)
====Vorkommando Moskau ====
AKA Sonderkommando 7c
Was to have operated in Moscow until it became apparent that Moscow would not fall and was incorporated in Sonderkommando 7b
Active Smolensk
EXECUTIONS......4.660
1. SS-Brigadeführer Professor Dr. [[Franz Six]] – (20th JUNE 1941-20TH AUGUST 1941)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Waldemar Klingelhöfer – (AUGUST 1941-SEPTEMBER 1941)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Erich Körting – (SEPTEMBER 1941-DECEMBER 1941)
4. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Friedrich Buchardt – (DECEMBER 1941-JANUARY 1942)
5. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Bock – (JANUARY 1942-JUNE 1942)
==[[Army Group South]]==
===Einsatzgruppe C===
EXECUTED....................118.341
1. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. Dr. [[Otto Rasch]] – (JUNE 1941-OCTOBER 1941)
2. SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Max Thomas – (OCTOBER 1941-29TH APRIL 1943)
3. SS-Standartenführer Horst-Alwin Böhme** – (6TH SEPTEMBER 1943-MARCH 1944)
====Einsatzkommando 4a====
Lvov, Lutsk, Rovno, Zhitomir, Pereyaslav, Yagotin, Ivankov, Radomyshl, Lubny, Poltava, Kiev, Kursk Kharkov.
EXECUTED...59.018
1. SS-Standartenführer [[Paul Blobel]] – (JUNE 1941-13TH JANUARY 1942)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Erwin Weinmann – (13TH JANUARY 1942-27TH JULY 1942)
3. SS-Sturmbannführer Eugen Steimle – (AUGUST 1942-15TH JANUARY 1943)
4. SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Schmidt – (JANUARY 1943-FEBRUARY 1943)
5. SS-Sturmbannführer Theodor Christensen – (MARCH 1943-DECEMBER 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 4b====
Lvov, Tarnopol, Kremenchug, Poltava, Slaviansk, Proskurov, Vinnitsa, Kramatorskaya, Gorlovka and Rostov
EXECUTED...6.329
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Günther Herrmann – (JUNE 1941-OCTOBER 1941)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Fritz Braune – (2ND OCTOBER 1941-21ST MARCH 1942)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Walter Hänsch – (MARCH 1942-JULY 1942)
4. SS-Obersturmbannführer August Meier – (JULY 1942-NOVEMBER 1942)
5. SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Sühr – (NOVEMBER 1942-AUGUST 1943)
6. SS-Sturmbannführer Waldemar Krause – (AUGUST 1943-JANUARY 1944)
====Einsatzkommando 5 ====
Lvov, Skvira and Kiev
EXECUTED....46.102
1. SS-Oberführer Erwin Schulz – (JUNE 1941-AUGUST 1941)
2. SS-Sturmbannführer August Meier – (SEPTEMBER 1941-JANUARY 1942)
====Einsatzkommando 6====
Lvov, Zlochev, Zhitomir, Proskurov, Vinnitza, Dniepropetrovsk, Krivoi Rog, Stalino and Rostov
EXECUTED....5.577
1. SS-Standartenführer Dr. Erhard Kröger – (JUNE 1941-NOVEMBER 1941)
2. SS-Sturmbannführer Robert Möhr – (NOVEMBER 1941-SEPTEMBER 1942)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer [[Ernst Biberstein]] – (SEPTEMBER 1942-MAY 1943)
4. ?
5. SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Sühr – (AUGUST 1943-NOVEMBER 1943)
==[[German Eleventh Army|Eleventh Army]]==
===Einsatzgruppe D===
1. SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Dr. [[Otto Ohlendorf]] – (JUNE 1941-JULY 1942)
2. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Walter Bierkamp – (JULY 1942-MARCH 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 10a ====
1. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Heinz Seetzen – (JUNE 1941-JULY 1942)
2. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Kurt Christmann – (AUGUST 1942-JULY 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 10b====
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Alois Persterer – (JUNE 1941-DECEMBER 1942)
2. SS-Sturmbannführer Eduard Jedamzik – (DECEMBER 1942-FEBRUARY 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 11a ====
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Zapp – (JUNE 1941-JULY 1942)
2. Fritz Mauer (JULY 1942-OCTOBER 1942)
3. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Gerhard Bast – (NOVEMBER 1942-DECEMBER 1942)
4. SS-Sturmbannführer Werner Hersmann – (DECEMBER 1942-MAY 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 11b ====
1. SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Unglaube – (JUNE 1941-JULY 1941)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Bruno Müller – (JULY 1941-OCTOBER 1941)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Werner Braune – (OCTOBER 1941-SEPTEMBER 1942)
4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Schultz – (SEPTEMBER 1942-FEBRUARY 1943)
====Einsatzkommando 12====
1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Gustav Nosske – (JUNE 1941-FEBRUARY 1942)
2. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Müller – (FEBRUARY 1942-OCTOBER 1942)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Günther Herrmann – (OCTOBER 1942-MARCH 1943)
==Planned Einsatzkommando Units==
*[[Einsatzkommando]]-6 [[Einsatzgruppen]] headed by Dr.[[Franz Six]]-planned for [[United Kingdom]] {[[England]] and [[Scotland]]}.
*[[Einsatzkommando]] Ägypten-planned for Jews resident in the Middle East-including "Palestine" {[[Israel]]}.
=Trials=
Several officers were tried and hung after the war. See [[Einsatzgruppen Trial|Einsatzgruppen Trial ]]
==Report==
The Commander of
the security police and
the SD
Einsatzkommando 3
Kauen [Kaunas],
1 December 1941
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|Secret Reich Business! | 5 copies
-------------------------- 4th copy
Complete list of executions carried out in the EK 3 area
up to 1 December 1941
Security police duties in Lithuania taken over by Einsatzkommando 3 on
2 July 1941.
(The Wilna [Vilnius] area was taken over by EK 3 on 9 Aug. 1941, the
Schaulen area on 2 Oct. 1941. Up until these dates EK 9 operated in
Wilna and EK 2 in Schaulen.)
On my instructions and orders the following executions were conducted by
Lithuanian partisans:
4.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII 416 Jews, 47 Jewesses 463
6.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII Jews 2,514
Following the formation of a raiding squad under the command of
SS-Obersturmfuhrer Hamman and 8-10 reliable men from the
Einsatzkommando. the following actions were conducted in cooperation
with Lithuanian partisans:
7.7.41 Mariampole Jews 32
8.7.41 Mariampole 14 Jews, 5 Comm. officials 19
8.7.41 Girkalinei Comm. officials 6
9.7.41 Wendziogala 32 Jews, 2 Jewesses, 1 Lithuanian
(f.), 2 Lithuanian Comm., 1
Russian Comm. 38
9.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII 21 Jews, 3 Jewesses 24
14.7.41 Mariampole 21 Jews, 1 Russ., 9 Lith. Comm. 31
17.7.41 Babtei 8 Comm. officials (inc. 6 Jews) 8
18.7.41 Mariampole 39 Jews, 14 Jewesses 53
19.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII 17 Jews, 2 Jewesses, 4 Lith.
Comm., 2 Comm. Lithuanians (f.),
1 German Comm. 26
21.7.41 Panevezys 59 Jews, 11 Jewesses, 1
Lithuanian (f.), 1 Pole, 22 Lith.
Comm., 9 Russ. Comm. 103
22.7.41 Panevezys 1 Jew 1
23.7.41 Kedainiai 83 Jews, 12 Jewesses, 14 Russ.
Comm., 15 Lith. Comm., 1 Russ.
O-Politruk 125
25.7.41 Mariampole 90 Jews, 13 Jewesses 103
28.7.41 Panevezys 234 Jews, 15 Jewesses, 19 Russ.
Comm., 20 Lith. Comm. 288
Total carried forward 3,384
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Sheet 2
Total carried over 3,384
29.7.41 Rasainiai 254 Jews, 3 Lith. Comm. 257
30.7.41 Agriogala 27 Jews, 11 Lith. Comm. 38
31.7.41 Utena 235 Jews, 16 Jewesses, 4 Lith.
Comm., 1 robber/murderer 256
31.7.41 Wendziogala 13 Jews, 2 murderers 15
1.8.41 Ukmerge 254 Jews, 42 Jewesses, 1 Pol.
Comm., 2 Lith. NKVD agents, 1
mayor of Jonava who gave order
to set fire to Jonava 300
2.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 170 Jews, 1 US Jewess, 33 Jewesses,
4 Lith. Comm. 209
4.8.41 Panevezys 362 Jews, 41 Jewesses, 5 Russ. Comm.,
14 Lith. Comm. 422
5.8.41 Rasainiai 213 Jews, 66 Jewesses 279
7.8.41 Uteba 483 Jews, 87 Jewesses, 1 Lithuanian
(robber of corpses of German soldiers)571
8.8.41 Ukmerge 620 Jews, 82 Jewesses 702
9.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 484 Jews, 50 Jewesses 534
11.8.41 Panevezys 450 Jews, 48 Jewesses, 1 Lith. 1 Russ. 500
13.8.41 Alytus 617 Jews, 100 Jewesses, 1 criminal 719
14.8.41 Jonava 497 Jews, 55 Jewesses 552
15-16.8.41 Rokiskis 3,200 Jews, Jewesses, and J. Children,
5 Lith. Comm., 1 Pole, 1 partisan 3207
9-16.8.41 Rassainiai 294 Jewesses, 4 Jewish children 298
27.6-14.8.41 Rokiskis 493 Jews, 432 Russians, 56 Lithuanians
(all active communists) 981
18.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 689 Jews, 402 Jewesses, 1 Pole (f.),
711 Jewish intellectuals from Ghetto
in reprisal for sabotage action 1,812
19.8.41 Ukmerge 298 Jews, 255 Jewesses, 1 Politruk,
88 Jewish children, 1 Russ. Comm. 645
22.8.41 Dunaburg 3 Russ. Comm., 5 Latvian, incl. 1
murderer, 1 Russ. Guardsman, 3 Poles,
3 Gypsies (m.), 1 Gypsy (f.), 1 Gypsy
child, 1 Jew, 1 Jewess, 1 Armenian
(m.), 2 Politruks (prison inspection
in Dunanburg 21
Total carried forward 16,152
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Total carried forward 16,152
22.8.41 Aglona Mentally sick: 269 men, 227 women,
48 children 544
23.8.41 Panevezys 1,312 Jews, 4,602 Jewesses, 1,609
Jewish children 7,523
18-22.8.41 Kreis Rasainiai 466 Jews, 440 Jewesses, 1,020
Jewish children 1,926
25.8.41 Obeliai 112 Jews, 627 Jewesses, 421
Jewish children 1,160
25-26.8.41 Seduva 230 Jews, 275 Jewesses, 159
Jewish children 664
26.8.41 Zarasai 767 Jews, 1,113 Jewesses, 1 Lith.
Comm., 687 Jewish children, 1 Russ.
Comm. (f.) 2,569
28.8.41 Pasvalys 402 Jews, 738 Jewesses, 209
Jewish children 1,349
26.8.41 Kaisiadorys All Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish
children 1,911
27.8.41 Prienai All Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish
Children 1,078
27.8.41 Dagda and 212 Jews, 4 Russ. POW's 216
Kraslawa
27.8.41 Joniskia 47 Jews, 165 Jewesses, 143
Jewish children 355
28.8.41 Wilkia 76 Jews, 192 Jewesses, 134
Jewish children 402
28.8.41 Kedainiai 710 Jews, 767 Jewesses, 599
Jewish children 2,076
29.8.41 Rumsiskis and 20 Jews, 567 Jewesses, 197
Ziezmariai Jewish children 784
29.8.41 Utena and 582 Jews, 1,731 Jewesses, 1,469
Moletai Jewish children 3,782
13-31.8.41 Alytus and
environs 233 Jews 233
1.9.41 Mariampole 1,763 Jews, 1,812 Jewesses, 1,404
Jewish children, 109 mentally sick,
1 German subject (f.), married to a
Jew, 1 Russian (f.) 5090
Total carried over 47,814
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Total carried over 47,814
28.8-2.9.41 Darsuniskis 10 Jews, 69 Jewesses, 20
Jewish children 99
Carliava 73 Jews, 113 Jewesses, 61
Jewish children 247
Jonava 112 Jews, 1,200 Jewesses, 244
Jewish children 1,556
Petrasiunai 30 Jews, 72 Jewesses, 23
Jewish children 125
Jesuas 26 Jews, 72 Jewesses, 46
Jewish children 144
Ariogala 207 Jews, 260 Jewesses, 195
Jewish children 662
Jasvainai 86 Jews, 110 Jewesses, 86
Jewish children 282
Babtei 20 Jews, 41 Jewesses, 22
Jewish children 83
Wenziogala 42 Jews, 113 Jewesses, 97
Jewish children 252
Krakes 448 Jews, 476 Jewesses, 97
Jewish children 1,125
4.9.41 Pravenischkis 247 Jews, 6 Jewesses 253
Cekiske 22 Jews, 64 Jewesses, 60
Jewish children 146
Seredsius 6 Jews, 61 Jewesses, 126
Jewish children 193
Velinona 2 Jews, 71 Jewesses, 86
Jewish children 159
Zapiskis 47 Jews, 118 Jewesses, 13
Jewish children 178
5.9.41 Ukmerge 1,123 Jews, 1,849 Jewesses, 1,737
Jewish children 4,709
25.8-6.9.41 Mopping up in: 16 Jews, 412 Jewesses, 415
Rasainiai Jewish children 843
Georgenburg all Jews, all Jewesses, all
Jewish children 412
9.9.41 Alytus 287 Jews, 640 Jewesses, 352
Jewish children 1,279
9.9.41 Butrimonys 67 Jews, 370 Jewesses, 303
Jewish children 740
10.9.41 Merkine 223 Jews, 640 Jewesses, 276
Jewish children 854
10.9.41 Varena 541 Jews, 141 Jewesses, 149
Jewish children 831
11.9.41 Leipalingis 60 Jews, 70 Jewesses, 25
Jewish children 155
11.9.41 Seirijai 229 Jews, 384 Jewesses, 340
Jewish children 953
12.9.41 Simnas 68 Jews, 197 Jewesses, 149
Jewish children 414
11-12.9.41 Uzusalis Reprisal against inhabitants who
fed Russ. partisans; some in
possession of weapons 43
26.9.41 Kauen-F.IV 412 Jews, 615 Jewesses, 581
Jewish children (sick and
suspected epidemic cases) 1,608
Total carries over 66,159
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Total carried over 66,159
2.10.41 Zagare 633 Jews, 1,107 Jewesses, 496
Jewish children (as these Jews were
being led away a mutiny rose, which
was however immediately put down;
150 Jews were shot immediately; 7
partisans wounded) 2,236
4.10.41 Kauen-F.IX 315 Jews, 712 Jewesses, 818
Jewish children (reprisal after
German police officer shot in ghetto) 1,845
29.10.41 Kauen-F.IX 2,007 Jews, 2,920 Jewesses, 4,273
Jewish children (mopping up ghetto
of superfluous Jews) 9,200
3.11.41 Lazdijai 485 Jews, 511 Jewesses, 539
Jewish children 1,535
15.11.41 Wilkowiski 36 Jews, 48 Jewesses, 31
Jewish children 115
25.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 1,159 Jews, 1,600 Jewesses, 175
Jewish children (resettlers from
Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am main) 2,934
29.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 693 Jews, 1,155 Jewesses, 152
Jewish children (resettlers from
from Vienna and Breslau) 2,000
29.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 17 Jews, 1 Jewess, for contravention
of ghetto law, 1 Reichs German who
converted to the Jewish faith and
attended rabbinical school, then 15
terrorists from the Kalinin group 34
EK 3 detachment in Dunanberg
in the period 13.7-21.8.41: 9,012 Jews, Jewesses and Jewish
children, 573 active Comm. 9,585
EK 3 detachment in Wilna:
12.8-1.9.41 City of Wilna 425 Jews, 19 Jewesses, 8 Comm. (m.),
9 Comm. (f.) 461
2.9.41 City of Wilna 864 Jews, 2,019 Jewesses, 817
Jewish children (sonderaktion because
German soldiers shot at by Jews) 3,700
Total carried forward 99,084
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Total carried forward 99,804
12.9.41 City of Wilna 993 Jews, 1,670 Jewesses, 771
Jewish children 3,334
17.9.41 City of Wilna 337 Jews, 687 Jewesses, 247
Jewish children and 4 Lith. Comm. 1,271
20.9.41 Nemencing 128 Jews, 176 Jewesses, 99
Jewish children 403
22.9.41 Novo-Wilejka 468 Jews, 495 Jewesses, 196
Jewish children 1,159
24.9.41 Riesa 512 Jews, 744 Jewesses, 511
Jewish children 1,767
25.9.41 Jahiunai 215 Jews, 229 Jewesses, 131
Jewish children 575
27.9.41 Eysisky 989 Jews, 1,636 Jewesses, 821
Jewish children 3,446
30.9.41 Trakai 366 Jews, 483 Jewesses, 597
Jewish children 1,446
4.10.41 City of Wilna 432 Jews, 1,115 Jewesses, 436
Jewish children 1,983
6.10.41 Semiliski 213 Jews, 359 Jewesses, 390
Jewish children 962
9.10.41 Svenciany 1,169 Jews, 1,840 Jewesses, 717
Jewish children 3,726
16.10.41 City of Wilna 382 Jews, 507 Jewesses, 257
Jewish children 1,146
21.10.41 City of Wilna 718 Jews, 1,063 Jewesses, 586
Jewish children 2,367
25.10.41 City of Wilna 1,776 Jewesses, 812 Jewish children 2,578
27.10.41 City of Wilna 946 Jews, 184 Jewesses, 73
Jewish children 1,203
30.10.41 City of Wilna 382 Jews, 789 Jewesses, 362
Jewish children 1,553
6.11.41 City of Wilna 340 Jews, 749 Jewesses, 252
Jewish children 1,341
19.11.41 City of Wilna 76 Jews, 77 Jewesses, 18
Jewish children 171
19.11.41 City of Wilna 6 POW's, 8 Poles 14
20.11.41 City of Wilna 3 POW's 3
25.11.41 City of Wilna 9 Jews, 46 Jewesses, 8 Jewish
children, 1 Pole for possession of arms
and other military equipment 64
EK 3 detachment in Minsk from
28.9-17.10.41:
Pleschnitza 620 Jews, 1,285 Jewesses,
Bischolin 1,126 Jewish children and 19
Scak Comm.
Bober
Uzda 3,050
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133,346
Prior to EK 3 taking over security police duties, Jews liquidated
by pogroms and executions (including partisans) 4,000
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Total 137,346
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Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish problem for
Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3. In Lithuania there are no more
Jews, apart from Jewish workers and their families.
......
The distance between from the assembly point to the graves was on average
4 to 5 km.
......
I consider the Jewish action more or less terminated as far as
Einsatzkommando 3 is concerned. Those working Jews and Jewesses still
available are needed urgently and I can envisage that after the winter
this workforce will be required even more urgently. I am of the view
that the sterilization programme of the male worker Jews should be
started immediately so that reproduction is prevented. If despite
sterilization a Jewess becomes pregnant she will be liquidated.
(signed) Jager
SS-Standartenfuhrer
The term ''Einsatzkommando'' is still in use for German paramilitary organizations, such as [[EKO Cobra]].
[[Category:Einsatzgruppen]]
[[Category:Massacres in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Military units and formations of Germany]]
[[de:Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD]]