Berlin, 27 February 1942.
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The Chief of the Security Police and the SD IV A 1—B. No. 24 B/41 gRs.
SECRET [rubber stamp]
Re: Report No. 9 concerning the activity of the "Einsatzgruppen" of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR.
Enel: 1
I herewith enclose the ninth summary report concerning the activity of the "Einsatzgruppen" of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR. The reports will be sent out periodically in future.
Signed: Heydrich.
Filed 7 March [Office rubber stamp]
certified:
Signed: Gotschlich Office clerk
Distribution:
To the Chiefs of the "Einsatzgruppen" A, B, C, and D (with extra copies for the "Einsatzkommandos" and commanders of the Security Police and the SD).
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Commander of the Security Police and the SD SS-Oberfuehrer [Brig. Gen.] Dr. Schoengarth, Cracow.
Inspector of the border I—East—SS-Oberfuehrer RuKD Damzog, Posznan.
Higher SS and Police Chief SS-O'Gruf. [Maj. Gen.]
Jeckeln, Riga SS-O'Gruf. [Maj. Gen.] v. d. Bach Mogilew SS-O'Gruf. [Maj. Gen.] Pruetzmann, Kriwoj-Rog
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Korsemann, Rowno
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SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.] Krueger, Cracow SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.]
. Heissmeyer, Berlin
SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.] v. Woyrsch, Dresden SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.] Schmauser, Breslau
SS-Gruf. [Maj. Gen.]
Mazuw, Stettin
SS-Gruf. [Maj. Gen.]
Dr. Kaltenbrunner,
Vienna
SS-Gruf. [Maj. Gen.]
Koppe, Posznan
SS-Gruf. [Maj. Gen.]
Undersecretary of State Frank, Prague SS and Police Chief SS-Brif [Brig. Gen.] Schroeder,
Riga
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Wysocki, Kovno
SS-Oberf. [Brig. Gen.] Moeller, Reval
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Zenner, Minsk
SS-O'Stubaf. [Lieut. Col.] Hell-wig, Shitomir
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SS-Oberf. [Brig. Gen.] Schemer, Cracow
SS-Oberf. [Brig. Gen.] Wigand, Warsaw
SS-Oberf. [Brig. Gen.] Oberg, . Radom
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Katzmann, Lwow
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Haltermann, Kiew
Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" I
c.o. Reg. Dir. Koehler, Koenigsberg, Prussia.
' Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" II
c.o. Reg. Dir. Buchholz, Stettin.
Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" VIII
c.o. ORR. Dr. Frhr. v. Wrangel, Breslau.
Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" XVII c.o. RR Dr. Fischer, Vienna.
Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" XX c.o. ORR. Brien, Danzig.
Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" XXI c.o. RR. Mittendorf, Posznan.
Reich Defense Commissioner for the occupied Polish Territories Gov. Gen. Reich Minister Dr. Frank, c.o. ORR. Dr. Schepers, Berlin.
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Harm, Stettin (SS-Oberabschnitt [section] Baltic Sea).
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Report No. 9 of the activities of the "Einsatzgruppen" of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR (For the period from 1 Jan. to 81 Jan. 1942)
3876-PS
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INDEX
I. Garrisons.
II. Activities:
A. Partisans.
B. Fight against communists, functionaries, and criminal elements.
C. Jews.
D. Propaganda activity.
III. Feeling and attitude of the population:
A. Latvia.
B. Esthonia.
C. White Buthenia.
IV. Polish Resistance Movements
V. Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) *******
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C. JEWS.
Now as ever the attitude of the Jews is unequivocally antiGerman and criminal. It is attempted to purge East Land [Ostland] as completely as possible of Jews. Executions by shooting are carried out everywhere in such a manner as not to attract public attention. The public and even the remaining Jews are mostly of the opinion that the Jews have only been transferred to a different domicile.
Esthonia is already free of Jews.
In Latvia the number of 29,500 Jews remaining in Riga was reduced to 2,500. Nine hundred sixty-two Jews still living in Dvinsk are urgently needed as workers.
In Lithuania the country and the smaller towns have been completely purged of Jews. Aside from basic considerations this was particularly urgent because Communist elements, especially terror groups and circles of the Polish resistance movement were establishing connections with the Jews. The Jews, on the other hand, often tried to arouse anti-German feeling among Lithuanian circles by themselves willing to participate in the reconstruction.
The Jews in Zagare were particularly active. There, 50 Jews escaped from the Ghetto but could be caught again and shot. During the shooting of all Jews in Zagare, organized as a result of the above mentioned incident, the Jews attacked the guards while shouting "Long live Stalin" and "Down with Hitler". Resistance was crushed immediately.
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In Lithuania there are still 15,000 Jews in Kaunas [Kovno] 4,500 in Shavli, and an additional 15,000 in Vilna who are also needed as workers. In White Ruthenia the purge of Jews is under way. The number of Jews in the part up to now handed over to the civil administration amounts to 139,000. In the meantime, 33,210 Jews were shot by the special unit [Einsatzgruppe] of the Security Police and the Security Service [SD].
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Berlin, 23 April 1942
The Chief of the Security Police and the SD IV A 1—B. No. 24 B/41 gRs
SECRET [rubber stamp]
Re: Report No. 11 concerning the activity of the "Einsatzgruppen" of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR.
Enel: 1
At the request of the Chief of the Security Police and the SD I herewith enclose the eleventh summary report concerning the activity of the "Einsatzgruppen" of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR.
signed: Heydrich.
Filed 4 May 42 [Office rubber stamp]
Certified:
Signed: Gotschlich
Office clerk
Distribution:
To the Chiefs of the "Einsatzgruppen" A, B, C and D (with extra copies for the "Einsatzkommandos" and commanders of the Security Police and the SD). Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Government General SS-Oberfuehrer [Brig. Gen.] Dr. Schoengarth, Cracow.
Inspector of the border I—East—SS-Oberf. [Brig.
Gen.] RuKD. Damzog, Posen Higher SS and Police Chief SS-O'Gruf. [Maj. Gen.]
Jeckeln, Riga SS-O'Gruf. [Maj. Gen.] v. d. Bach, Mogilew SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.] Pruetzmann, Kriwoj-Rog
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SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Korsemann, Rowno SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.] Krueger, Cracow SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.] Heissmeyer, Berlin SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.] v. Woyrsch, Dresden SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.'] Schmauser, Breslau SS-O'Gruf. [Lieut. Gen.] Mazuw, Stettin SS-Gruf. [Maj. Gen.] Kaltenbrunner,
Vienna
SS-Gruf. [Maj. Gen.] Koppe, Posznan SS-Gruf. [Maj. Gen.] Undersecretary of State Frank, Prague SS and Police Chief SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Schroeder,
Riga
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Wysocki, Kovno
SS-Oberf. [Brig. Gen.] Moeller, Reval
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Zenner, Minsk
SS-O'Stubaf [Lieut. Col.] Hell-wig, Shitomir
SS-Oberf. [Brig. Gen.] Schemer, . Cracow
SS-Oberf. [Brig. Gen.] Wigand, Warsaw
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Oberg, Radom
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Katzmann, Lwow
SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Haltermann, Kiew
Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" I c.o. RR. Witte oViA., Koenigsberg/Prussia Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" II c.o. RD. Buchholz oViA., Stettin
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Reich Defense Commissioner for Lower Silesia in the "Wehrkreis" VIII c.o. ORR. Dreschhoff oViA., Breslau
Reich Defense Commissioner for Upper Silesia in the "Wehrkreis" VIII c.o. RR. Meyer-Tonndorf oViA., Kattowitz
Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" XVII c.o. RR. Dr. Fischer oViA., Vienna Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" XX c.o. ORR. Brien oViA., Danzig Reich Defense Commissioner for the "Wehrkreis" XXI c.o. RR. Mittendorf oViA., Posznan Reich Defense Commissioner for the occupied Polish Territories Gov. Gen. Reich Minister Dr. Frank c.o. ORR, Dr. Schepers oViA., Berlin SS-Brif. [Brig. Gen.] Harms, Stettin (SS-Oberabschnitt [section] Baltic Sea)
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Report No. 11 of the activities of the "Einsatzgruppen" of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR.
(For the period from 1 March to 31 March 1942)
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INDEX
I. Garrisons.
II. Activities:
A. Partisans .
B. Communists
C. Jews
III. Feeling and attitude of the population.
IV. Movements for national independence.
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* * * released from arrest, accusations against them were suppressed and false identification papers made out for them.
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A few days later the former NKVD-Major Koschemijak and his wife were arrested. They had tried to form a new NKVD-organization in Kiev and to organize terror and sabotage groups for the purpose of blowing up larger buildings and bridges.
The checking of villages and the screening of the population led continually to the arrest of political activists. After they had been given a hearing, they were shot.
At Yalta in the Crimea a new unit of the communist youth organization, just starting up, was raided and the leading woman was shot.
C JEWS.
The manner in which the Jewish question was solved differed very much at the various front sectors.
Since the largest part of the Eastern territory [Ostland] was free from Jews, and the few who remained and were needed for the most urgent labor projects, were located in ghettos, it was the main task of the security-police and SD to get hold of the Jews who were mostly hiding in the country. Several times Jews were seized who had left the ghetto without permission or who were not wearing the Jewish star.
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At Riga, among others, three Jews from the Reich, who had been assigned to the ghetto and had made a breakaway, were seized and publicly hanged in the ghetto.
In the course of some larger actions against the Jews, 3,412 of them were shot at Minsk, 302 at Vileyka, and 2,007 at Barano-vitchi. .
The population welcomed these actions since upon inspection of the residences, they had found out that the Jews still had quite a supply of food, while the food situation of the population was extremely bad.
Especially in the sphere of the black-market the Jews reappeared time and again. In the Minsk community kitchen, which was set up to feed the people and was managed by the city administration, two Jews were involved in extensive embezzlements and briberies. The food stuff thus obtained was sold on the blackmarket.
Another Jew was arrested under strong suspicion of espionage. The man in question was a well known sculptor and painter who, because he had made portraits of numerous German officers, had access to almost all the German troop units garrisoned at Minsk.
In the remaining territories of the Eastern Front, the duty of the security police and SD consisted in general clean up activities
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of larger villages, along with actions against individual Jews who put in a political or criminal appearance.
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Thus in Rakow alone 15,000 Jews were shot and 1,224- in Ar-tenowsk, so that these places are free from Jews.
In the Crimea 1000 Jews and Gipsies were executed.
Cover notes and extracts from reports (numbers 9 and 11) of the Einsatzgruppen, including the execution of Jews and Gypsies
Authors
Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of Security Police (SIPO) and Security Service (SD))
Reinhardt Heydrich
Most Horrible German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
- Born: 1904-03-07 (Halle (Saale))
- Died: 1942-06-04 (Prague)
- Country of citizenship: German Reich
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; fencer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Schutzstaffel (series ordinal: 10120)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer; SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
Date: 27 February 1942
Literal Title: Re: Report No. 9 concerning the activity of the "Einsatzgruppen" of the Security Police and the SD in the UdSSR
Total Pages: 14
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3876
HLSL Item No.: 451675
Notes:On the first page, the code number is mis-typed as PS 3867. Another copy was used in the case against Schirach.