Einsatzgruppen reports
Einsatzgruppen reports | |
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Map of the Einsatzgruppen operations with the location of the first shooting of Jewish women and children (along with the men), July 30, 1941. The Jäger Report, December 1, 1941. | |
Incident type | The Einsatzgruppen shootings |
Organizations | Schutzstaffel (SS) |
The Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports (OSRs), or ERM for the
Background
Following the onset of Operation Barbarossa, during the first 5 weeks of their shooting actions, the
The Nazi Einsatzgruppen were not the only formation tasked with the mass killings. Other formations included the
Original German cables
After World War II, the reports were grouped and numbered by the Allies in order to summarize their content. The actual German cables were sent in their own differing sequence including by the Einsatzgruppe A (EG–A) attached to
The OSRs are far from being equal. Some of them, such as OSR 156, include translated cables from several cities and weeks of shooting actions not yet concluded with tens of thousands of victims mentioned;[10] while other Operational Situation Reports, such as OSR 67, resemble long essays describing mere investigations into partisan activities in rural countryside resulting in dozens of executions.[11] Notably, the reports do not include all killings before the end of 1942.[9]
The following selection of reports are available in English translation.[12] The complete set of reports is available in German.[13][14]
Operational Situation Report (OSR) with dates: [Shootings] |
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See also
- Einsatzgruppen
- Einsatzkommando
- Gerstein Report, 1945
- Höfle Telegram, 1943
- Jäger Report, 1941
- Katzmann Report, 1943
- Korherr Report, 1943
- Riegner Telegram, 1942
- Special Prosecution Book-Poland, 1937–1939
- Bibliography of the Holocaust § Primary Sources
Notes
- ^ a b Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. "Index". Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports. HolocaustResearchProject.org.
- ^ Yitzhak Arad, with Shmuel Krakowski and Shmuel Spector (1989), The Einsatzgruppen reports: selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads’ campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, New York, N.Y.: Holocaust Library. Edition details.
- ^ ISBN 978-1107146341.
- ^ Browning (2004), p. 232.
- ^ Browning (1998), p. 11: On the eve of Operation Barbarossa Major Weiss disclosed to his men the directives of Hitler's 'Barbarossa Decree'.
- ^ Browning (2004), p. 261.
- ^ Laqueur & Baumel (2001), p. 51.
- ^ ISBN 978-0803222700. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ^ ISBN 0838634184. Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-01-30.)
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ignored (help - ^ H.E.A.R.T (2008). "Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports #156". Translated by Hermann Feuer. HolocaustResearchProject.org.
- ^ H.E.A.R.T (2008). "Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports #67". Translated by Hermann Feuer. HolocaustResearchProject.org.
- ISBN 0896040577.
- ^ "Die "Ereignismeldungen UdSSR" 1941".
- ^ https://d-nb.info/1011163101/04 [bare URL PDF]
- ^ H.E.A.R.T (2007), Operational Situation Report No. 10. NARA.
- ^ H.E.A.R.T (2007), Operational Situation Report No. 101. NARA.
- ^ H.E.A.R.T (2007), Operational Situation Report No. 106. NARA.
- ^ Ken Lewis (December 30, 1997). "Summary of Operational Situation Reports: Shootings". Table of Contents : Einsatzgruppe A, B, C and D. The Einsatzgruppen Archives.com. Archived from the original on December 6, 2003 – via Internet Archive.
References
- OCLC 847404688.
- ISBN 0803203926. Newer edition by Univ. of Nebraska Press / Yad Vashem 2007.
- Headland, Ronald (1992). Messages of murder: a study of the reports of the Security Police and the Security Service. Associated University Presses. ISBN 0838634184.
- Laqueur, Walter; Baumel, Judith Tydor (2001). The Holocaust Encyclopedia. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-30008-432-0.