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The subject of the killing, or alleged
killing, of Jews in captured Soviet territory by German security
units in the 1940s has become a very heated, albeit a very limited,
one. On the one side, a small group of historical revisionists claim
that accounts of these killings are simply lies propagated by
radical Jewish groups for self-aggrandizement
and on the other, a much larger and very vocal group that
states that over six millions of Jews were slaughtered by the
Germans. The discovery
of official German reports in the U.S. National Archives disclosed
that the truth is hardly palatable to either side.
The Official German RSHA Daily Reports on the Action of all
Einsatzgruppen engaged in Anti-Partisan Warfare on the Eastern Front
23 June 1941 through 21 May 1943 inclusive
The
information in the following tables comes directly from twelve
folders of IV A 1 Lagezimmer and are the only surviving
originals of Ereignismeldung UdSSR. Numbers 1-195 from 23.
June 1941 through 24 April 1942 by CdS/Amt IV A1 and Meldungen
aus den besetzeten Ostgebeiten, Numbers 1-55 between 1
May 1942 and 31 May 1943 by CdS Kommando stab. Copies of
these important documents can be found in the U.S. National
Archives, Rolls T-175 No’s 233 through 236, the Berlin
Document center in Berlin and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in
Munich. These important historical records are available to
the public at approximately $30.00 per roll. The total number of
secret reports runs to slightly over 4,000 pages.
With
the invasion of Soviet Russia on 21 June 1941, Reinhard Heydrich,
Chief of the RSHA instituted these reports into a comprehensive
daily summery of the various daily reports submitted by the Einsatzgruppen
and Einsatzkommandos. “Sammelmeldung UdSSR, Nr. 1”
was prepared by SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, head of
Amt IV, the Gestapo. They were classified as “Geheime
Reichssache” or Secret State matters and circulated to a
limited distribution list (at first 10 copies, then distribution was
expanded successively.) Following
the end of World War II, Müller, using the name of Schwarzer, fled
to Switzerland where he worked for Swiss intelligence until hired by
the CIA’s James Critchfield in 1948.[See recently declassified Müller
CIA files at NARA for further information]
The
only known copies of these daily summaries was from the IV A 1
Lagezimmer. A typical; Ereignismeldung contains a list of
Standorte of each HSSPF, KdS, Einsatzgruppe,
Einsatzkommando, and Sonderkommando reporting, accounts
of Bandenbekämpfung operations, including the shooting of
Jews and Soviet Political Commissars, and reports on political and
economic conditions much like those to be found in standard SD
reports.
Since
a great deal of fictional data has been presented concerning the
number of Jews who died as a result of interactions with the Einsatzgruppen
and their subgroups, it is instructive to study all of these daily,
highly classified reports, and set down the actual numbers of the
casualties on the Soviet Russian side. It is clearly obvious from
reading through these over 4,000 pages of detailed reports that Jews
were singled out for murder both because they were Jews but also
because they were basically allied with the Soviet Partisan movement
and were killed in combat with German security units.
It
should be noted that these Müller reports were classified as highly
secret and had a very limited circulation within the organs of the
Third Reich. As Müller was noted for his accuracy and thoroughness,
it is not possible that he invented these figures in the event that
future scholars would be mislead by their contents
Very often numbers of Communist party
officials and the dreaded Commissars were executed by the SD units
when they were captured. As there were a significant number of Jews
in these organs, it has been impossible to differentiate between the
makeup of the totals. The reports of executions were, in a number of
cases, marked: Execution of Communist officials and Jews.
The
following examples of messages are from the Einsatzgruppen Reports.
The
number of the report and the date is noted with each excerpt. The Einsatzgruppen
reported on their activities to their respective headquarters which
sent the information to Berlin. There the RSHA compiled concise
reports in the name of the Chief of Sipo and the SD. Copies
were distributed to high- ranking army, police and SS officers,
diplomats, members of the foreign office an even to industrialists
as they related to economic factors in the Soviet territories.
The Einsatzgruppen Reports were discovered by the U.S.
Army in Gestapo headquarters in Berlin after the war. They were
initially impounded by a research analyst attached to the Berlin
branch of the Office of the Chief of Council for War Crimes. They
were sealed and transported in the custody of the US Army to
Nuremberg. During the first days of the Einsatzgruppen Trial,
the authenticity of the reports was established beyond doubt and
none of the German defendants challenged their validity.
After
the trial, the original reports were sent to the National Archives
[NARA] in Washington, DC. In 1960 they were given to the Bundesarchiv
in Koblenz. Photocopies of all the reports remain in the
National Archives.
Examples of the Einsatzgruppen
Reports
Operational
Situation Report USSR No. 17
7.July.1941
According to instructions by
RSHA, liquidations of government and party officials, in all named
cities of Byelorussia, were carried out. Concerning the Jews,
according to orders, the same policy was adopted. The exact number
of the liquidated has not as yet been established.
Operational
Situation Report USSR No. 19
11.July.1941
In
Kaunas, up to now a total of
7,800 Jews have been liquidated, partly through pogroms and partly
through shooting by Lithuanian Kommandos. All of the corpses have
been removed. Further mass shootings are no longer possible.
Therefore, I summoned a Jewish committee and explained that
up to now we had no reason to interfere with the internal
arrangements between the Lithuanians and the Jews.
Operational
Situation Report USSR No. 106
7.October.1941
In agreement with the city
military command, all the Jews of Kiev were ordered to appear at a
certain place on Monday, 29 September, by 6 o'clock. This order was
publicized by posters all over the town by members of the newly
organized Ukrainian militia. At the same time, oral information was
passed that all the Jews of Kiev would be moved to another place. In
cooperations with the HQ of the Einsatzgruppen and two Kommandos
of Police Regiment
South, Sonderkommando 4a executed 33,771 Jews on September 29
and 30.
[NOTE: This took place outside
of Kiev and is known, post-war as the so-called Babi Yar massacre.
.Much has been made by post-war writers, about this incident. There
is absolutely nothing in any of the official German reports that
indicate where they executed the Jews of Kiev. Post-war, it was
suggested that this took place at the Babi Yar ravine west of Kiev
because that is the area in which Stalin’s NKVD shot its own
victims so post-war investigations of this area, which disclosed no
Jewish remains, were looking in the wrong place for a burial ground]
Operational
Situation Report USSR No. 111
12.October.1941
These were the reasons for the
executions carried out by the Kommandos: political officials;
plundereres and saboteurs; active Communists and political
representatives; Jews who gained their release from prison camps by
false statements; agents and informers of the NKVD; persons who by
false depositions and witness influencing were instrumental in the
deportation of ethnic Germans; Jewish sadism and revenge;
undesirable elements; partisans; politruks; danger of plague and
epidemics; members of Russian bands; armed
insurgents supplying Russian bands; rebels and agitators;
drifting juveniles; Jews in general.
Operational
Situation Report USSR No. 117
18.October.1941
The districts occupied by the Kommandos
were cleansed of Jews. 4,091 Jews and 46 Communists were executed
during the time span covered by the report, bringing the total to
40,699 [for the period of 1-15 October 1941 by Einsatzgruppen
D].
Operational
Situation Report USSR No. 126
27.October.1941
The difficulties in carrying out
such a large action - first of all with respect to sowing disunity -
were overcome in Kiev by a call via posters to the Jewish population
that they were to move. Although at the start, one could count on
the participation of about 5,000-6,000 Jews, more than 30,000 Jews
turned up who, due to extraordinarily skillful organization,
believed in the transfer right up to the moment of their execution.
Thus, even if about 75,000 Jews
had been liquidated so far, it has already become clear that a
solution of the Jewish question will not be possible in this way.
True, we have succeeded in bringing about a total solution to the
Jewish problem, particularly in smaller towns and also in the
villages. However, in
bigger towns it was observed that all the Jews have disappeared
after such an execution.
Operational
Situation Report USSR No.127
31.Oct.1941
In this area the Security Police
has come up against two major groups of adversaries. They are: 1)
the Jews, 2) those once active in the former Soviet regime ... In
this regard it should be pointed out that in the Ukraine, those who
sympathized with the Soviets were predominantly Jews ... It can now
be stated without reservation that the Jews were, without exception,
supporters of Bolshevism. "Over and over again, particularly in
the cities, the Jews are cited as the real Soviet rulers who
exploited the people with indescribable
brutality and delivered them to their deaths at the hands of the
NKVD. The (German Security Police) units have carried out
approximately 10,000 interrogations during the past four months.
Again and again, the Jews were cited as having worked actively for
the Soviets, if not in responsible positions then at least as
agents, collaborators or informers. Not a single Jewish corpse had
been found in any of the numerous mass graves. In any case, it is
evident that the Jews
share the greatest guilt with others for the slaughter of the
Ukrainian people and the ethnic Germans.
For this reason, special
measures against the Jews are considered necessary by the Security
Police
Operational
Situation Report USSR No. 173
25.February.1942
In
the course of a routine Security Police screening of an additional
part of the civilian population around Leningrad, 140 more people
had to be shot. The reasons for this were as follows:
a) Active participation in the Communist Party before the
arrival of the German troops;
b) Seditious and provocative activity since the arrival of
the German Army;
c) Partisan activity;
d) Espionage;
The
Einsatzgruppen were part of the SS. They were created at the
direction of Hitler and Himmler by Heydrich the Chief of the
Security Police and SD, who was Himmler's right hand man, and
operated under the direct control of the RSHA, the Reich Security
Main Office, one of the most important of the twelve main offices of
the SS.
These units were considered para-military
police units are were initially used to maintain internal order in
acquired new territories, round up known enemies of the Reich and
assist the military in rear area security.
The Einsatzgruppen were formed
in the spring of 1938 with the incorporation of the German-speaking
Sudetenland into the German Reich. They were also used in Austria
and, after the outbreak of World War II in September, 1939, in
conquered Polish territory
In anticipation of the assault on
Russia, Hitler issued an order directing that the Security Police
and the Security Service be called in to assist the army in breaking
every means of resistance behind the fighting front. Thereafter, the
Quartermaster General of the Army, General Wagner, representing
Keitel, the Chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht,
met Heydrich, Chief of the Security Police and Security Service.
These two men reached an agreement concerning the activation,
commitment, command, and jurisdiction of units of the Security
Police and 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.
The normal strength of the Einsatzgruppen
was from 600 to 800 men. The officer strength of the Einsatzgruppen
was drawn from the SD, SS, Criminal Police (Kripo) and
Gestapo. The enlisted forces were composed of the Waffen
SS, the 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. The Einsatzgruppen were divided
into Einsatzkommandos and Sonderkornmandos.
These subunits differed only in name.
When a mission called for a very small task force, the Einsatz or
Sonderkommandos were capable of further subdivision, called Teilkommando
or splinter groups.
The activity of the Einsatzgruppen
was not limited to the civilian population alone, but reached into
prisoner-of-war camps. Captured Soviet soldiers were screened by Einsatzkommandos
personnel in order to find and execute Soviet political commissars
The
Einsatzgruppen
were German special duty squads, composed primarily of SS and police
personnel. The commanders and officers were also members of the
Security Police and the Security Service. The units were directly
subordinate to the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt
or RSHA) in Berlin and were to operate regionally in coordination
with higher SS and police leaders. Ordered to follow the German army
into the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen were dependent upon
the army for supplies and logistical support.
The
chief of the RSHA, Reinhard Heydrich, instructed the Einsatzgruppe
commanders to support Wehrmacht units in the rear areas of
operation who were engaged in a growing partisan movement behind the
front lines. These partisan groups were generally comprised of
Russian civilians, Soviet military members and officials of the
Soviet Communist Party and state apparatus.
As
the German army advanced deep into Soviet territory, the Einsatzgruppen
followed the troops. Supported by locally recruited police
auxiliaries and other SS and German police units, the Einsatzgruppe
personnel at first merely did police work behind the lines. In late
July 1941, after the deployment of larger units of SS and police
personnel in the occupied Soviet Union, these units, including the Einsatzgruppen,
began more independent but still coordinated anti-partisan
activities.
Four battalion-sized
Einsatzgruppen and several police battalions were deployed in
the occupied Soviet Union.
Einsatzgruppe
A
fanned out from East Prussia across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
toward Leningrad. Its members were active in Kovno, Riga, and Vilna.
Einsatzgruppe A
and the units under its command rounded up and executed a
significant number of Russians, to include Communist functionaries.
During
the period 22 June 1941 to 15 October 1941 in Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia, and White Ruthenia, Einsatzgruppe A executed 118,430
Jews and 3,398 Communists.
On
or about 4 July 1941 in the city of Riga, Sonderkommando la
and Einsatzkommando 2, together with auxiliary police under
their command, carried out pogroms in which all synagogues were
destroyed and 400 Jews were executed.
During
October 1941 in Estonia, Einsatzkommando la, together with
Estonian units under their command, committed numerous executions
pursuant to a program for the extermination of all Jewish males over
sixteen except doctors and Jewish elders.
During
the period 7 November 1941 to 11 November 1941 in Minsk, Sonderkommando1b
executed 6,624 Jews.
During
the period 22 June 1941 to 16 January 1942 in its operational areas,
Einsatzkommando 2 executed 33,970 persons.
On
30 November 1941 in Riga, 20 men of Einsatzkommando 2
participated in the execution of 10,600 Jews.
During
the period 22 June 1941 to 19 September 1941 in Lithuania, Einsatzkommando
3 executed 692 persons.
During
the period 22 June 1941 to 10 August 1941 in the area of Kovno [Kaunas]
and Riga, Einsatzgruppe A executed 29,000 persons.
During
the period 2 October 1941 to 10 October 1941 in the vicinity of
Krasnogvardeisk, Einsatzgruppe A executed 260 persons.
During
the period 15 October 1941 to 23 October 1941 in the vicinity of
Krasnogvardeisk, Einsatzgruppe A executed 156 persons.
During
the period 24 October 1941 to 5 November 1941 in the vicinity of
Krasnogvardeisk, Einsatzgruppe A executed 118 persons.
On
20 November 1941 in the vicinity of Krasnogvardeisk, Einsatzgruppe
A executed 855 persons.
In
about December 1941 in the ghetto in Vitebsk, units of Einsatzgruppe
A executed 4,090 Jews.
On
22 December 1941 in Vilnyus [Vilna] , units of Einsatzgruppe A
executed 402 persons including 385 Jews.
On
1 February 1942 in Loknya, units of Einsatzgruppe A executed
the 38 gypsies and Jews remaining there.
On
2 and 3 March 1942 in Minsk, units of Einsatzgruppe A
executed 3,412 Jews.
On
2 and 3 March 1942 in Baranovichi, units of Einsatzgruppe A
executed 2,007 Jews.
On
17 March 1942 in Ilya, east of Vileika, units of Einsatzgruppe A
executed 520 Jews.
On
or about 7 April 1942 in Kovno and Olita, Lithuania, units of Einsatzgruppe
A executed 44 persons.
During
the period 10 April 1942 to 24 April 1942 in Latvia, units of Einsatzgruppe
A executed 1,272 persons, including 983 Jews, 204
Communists and 71 gypsies.
Totals:
217,560 executed including 147,451 Jews
Einsatzgruppe B
set out from Warsaw in occupied Poland, and moved east through
Belorussia towards Smolensk. Its members operated in Grodno, Minsk,
Brest-Litovsk, Slonim, Gomel, and Mogilev, among other places.
In about July 1941 in the city of
Minsk, units of Einsatzgruppe B executed 1,050 Jews,
political officials, "Asiatics" and others.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 14
November 1941 in the vicinity of Minsk and Smolensk, Einsatzgruppe
B executed 45,467
persons.
On 15 October 1941 in Mogilev, units of
Einsatzgruppe B executed 83 "Asiatics."
On 19 October 1941 in Mogilev, units of
Einsatzgruppe B participated in the execution of 3,726
Jews.
On 23 October 1941 in the vicinity of
Mogilev, units of Einsatzgruppe B executed 279 Jews.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 14
November 1941 in its operational areas, Sonderkommando 7a
executed 1,517 persons.
In September or October 1941 in
Sadrudubs, Sonderkommando 7a executed 272 Jews.
During the period 6 March 1942 to 30
March 1942 in the vicinity of Klintsy, Sonderkommando 7a
executed 1,585 Jews and 45 gypsies.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 14
November 1941 in its operational areas, Sonderkommando 7b
executed 1,822 persons.
During the period from September to
October 1941 in Rechitsa, White Ruthenia, Sonderkommando 7b
executed 216 Jews.
During the period 6 March 1942 to 30
March 1942 in the vicinity of Bryansk, Sonderkommando 7b
executed 82 persons, including 27 Jews.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 14
November 1941 in its operational areas, Einsatzkommando 8
executed 28,219 persons.
In September or October 1941 in the
area of Shklov, Einsatzkommando 8 executed 627 Jews
and 812 other persons.
In September or October 1941 in Mogilev,
Einsatzkommando 8 participated in the execution of 113
Jews.
In September or October 1941 in Krupka,
Einsatzkommando 8 executed 912 Jews.
In September or October 1941 in
Sholopaniche, Einsatzkommando 8 executed 822 Jews.
During the period 6 March 1942 to 30
March 1942 in the vicinity of Mogilev, Einsatzkommando 8
executed 1,609 persons, including 1,551 Jews and 33
gypsies.
On 8 October 1941 in the ghetto of
Vitebsk, Einsatzkommando 9 began executing Jews and by 25
October 1941, 3,000 Jews had been executed.
During the period 6 March 1942 to 30
March 1942 in the vicinity of Vitebsk, Einsatzkommando 9 a executed
273 persons, including 170 Jews.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 14
November 1941 in its operational areas, the group staff of Einsatzgruppe
B and the Vorkommando Moscow executed 2,457
persons.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 20
August 1941 in the vicinity of Smolensk, the group staff of Einsatzgruppe
B and the Vorkommando Moscow executed 144 persons.
In September or October 1941 in Tatarsk,
the group staff of Einsatzgruppe B and the Vorkommando
Moscow executed all male Jews.
During the period 6 March to 30 March
1942 in the vicinity of Roslavl, Vorkommando Moscow executed 52
persons.
During the period 6 March 1942 to 30
March 1942 in the vicinity of Smolensk, Trupp Smolensk
executed 60 persons, including 18 Jews.
Totals:
95,244 executed including 12,406 Jews
Einsatzgruppe C
began operations from the Krakow area and headed across the Ukraine
towards Kiev and Donetsk, in the areas of Lvov, Tarnopol,
Zolochev, Kremenets, Kharkov, and Kiev.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 3
November 1941 in the vicinity of Zhitomir, Novo Ukrainka and Kiev, Einsatzgruppe
C executed more than 75,000 Jews.
On 19 September 1941 in Zhitomir,
Einsatzgruppe C executed 3,145 Jews and confiscated
their clothing and valuables.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 29
July 1941 in the vicinity of Zhitomir, Sonderkommando 4a
executed 2,531 persons.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 12
October 1941 in its operational areas, Sonderkommando 4a
executed more than 51,000 persons.
During the period from 2'7 June to 29
June 1941 in the vicinity of Sokal and Lutsk, Sonderkommando 4a
executed 300 Jews and 317 Communists.
In July or August 1941 in Fastov, Sonderkommando
4a executed all the Jews between the ages of 12 and 60.
In September or October 1941 in the
vicinity of Vyrna and Dederev, Sonderkommando 4a executed 32
gypsies.
On 29 and 30 September 1941 in Kiev, Einsatzkommando
4a, together with the group staff and police units, executed 33,771
Jews and confiscated their clothing and valuables.
On 8 October 1941 in Jagotin, Sonderkommando
executed 126 Jews.
On 23 November 1941 in Poltava, Sonderkommando
executed 1,638 Jews.
In about July 1941 in Tarnopol, Sonderkommando
executed 180 Jews.
During the period from 13 September to
26 September 1941 in the vicinity of Kremenchug, Sonderkommando
4b executed 125 Jews and 103 political officials.
During the period 4 October 1941 to 10
October 1941 in Poltava, Sonderkommando 4b executed 186
persons.
From about 11 October 1941 to 30
October 1941 in the vicinity of Poltava, Sonderkommando 4b
executed 595 persons.
During the period 14 January 1942 to 12
February 1942 in the vicinity of Kiev, Sonderkommando 4b
executed 861 persons, including 139 Jews and 649 political
officials.
During the period from February 1942 to
March 1942 in the vicinity of Artemovsk, Sonderkommando 4b
executed 1,317 persons, including 1,224 Jews and 63
"political activists."
During the period from 22 June 1941 to
10 November 1941 in its operational areas, Einsatzkommando 5
executed 29,644 persons.
During July or August 1941 in Berdichev,
Einsatzkommando 5 executed 74 Jews.
During the period 7 September 1941 to 5
October 1941 in the vicinity of Berdichev, Einsatzkommando 5
executed 8,800 Jews and 207 political officials.
On 22 and 23 September 1941 in Uman, Einsatzkommando
5 executed 1,412 Jews.
During the period 20 October 1941 to 26
October 1941 in the vicinity of Kiev, Einsatzkommando 5
executed 4,372 Jews and 36 political officials.
During the period from 23 November 1941
to 30 November 1941 in the vicinity of Rovno, Einsatzkommando executed
2,615 Jews and 64 political officials.
During the period from 12 January 1942
to 24 January 1942 in the vicinity of Kiev, Einsatzkommando 5
executed about 8,000 Jews and 104 political officials.
During the period from 24 November 1941
to 30 November 1941 in the vicinity of Dnepropetrovsk, Einsatzkommando
6 executed 226 Jews and 19 political officials.
From about 10 January 1942 to 6
February 1942 in the vicinity of Stalino, Einsatzkommando 6
executed about 149 Jews and 173 political officials.
In about February 1942 in the vicinity
of Stalino, Einsatzkommando 6 executed 493 persons,
including 80 "political activists" and 369 Jews.
Totals:
216,860 executed including 141,101 Jews
Einsatzgruppe D
operated in southern Ukraine, operating in the areas of Nikolayev,
Kherson, Simferopol, Sevastopol, and Feodosiya
During the period from 22 June 1941 to
July 1943, Einsatzgruppe D, in the area of southern Russia,
executed more than 90,000 persons.
On 15 July 1941 in the vicinity of
Beltsy, Sonderkommando 10a executed 45 persons,
including the Counsel of Jewish Elders.
In July 1941 in the vicinity of
Chernovitsy, Sonderkommando 10b executed 16 Communists
and 682 Jews.
During the period 22 June 1941 to 7
August 1941 in the vicinity of Kichinev, Einsatzkommando lla executed
551 Jews.
In about July 1941 in Tighina, Einsatzkommando
llb executed 151 Jews.
In about December 1941 in the vicinity
of Simferopol, Einsatzkommando l1b executed over 700
persons.
During the period from 22 June 1941 to
23 August 1941 in Babchinzy, Einsatzkommando 12 executed 94
Jews.
During the period 15 July 1941 to 30
July 1941 in the vicinity of Khotin, Einsatzgruppe D executed
150 Jews and Communists.
During the period 19 August 1941 to 15
September 1941 in the vicinity of Nikolaev, Einsatzgruppe D
executed 8,890 Jews and Communists.
During the period 16 September 1941 to
30 September 1941 in the vicinity of Nikolacv and Kherson,
Einsatzgruppe D executed 22,467 Jews.
During the period 1 October 1941 to 15
October 1941 in the area east of the Dnepr, Einsatzgruppe D
executed 4,891 Jews and 46 Communists.
During the period 15 January 1942 to 31
January 1942 within its operational areas, Einsatzgruppe D
executed 3,601 persons, including 3,286 Jews and 152
Communists.
During the period 1 February 1942 to 15
February 1942 20 10 within its operational areas, Einsatzgruppe D
executed 1, 451 persons, including 920 Jews and 468
Communists.
During the period 16 February 1942 to
28 February 1942 within its operational areas, Einsatzgruppe D
executed 1,515 persons, including 729 Jews, 271
Communists and 421 gypsies and other persons.
During the period 1 March 1942 to 15
March 1942 within its operational areas, Einsatzgruppe D
executed 2,010 persons, including 678 Jews, 359
Communists, and 810 gypsies and other persons.
During the period 15 March 1942 to 30
March 1942 within its operational areas, Einsatzgruppe D
executed 1,501 persons, including 588 Jews, 405
Communists, and 261 gypsies and other persons.
Totals 133,824 executed
including 35,034 Jews
Grand total: 663,488 executed
including 335,993 Jews
(Including total deaths in Lithuania of
137,346) *
800,834 total recorded 1941-1943 Einsatzgruppen
executions in the Eastern areas
*(Figures to be shown in a later
edition )
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