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Einsatzkommando is a German military term with the literal translation of "mission commando", roughly equivalent to the English term "task force". The Nazi-era Einsatzkommando refers to a subgroup of the four Einsatzgruppen, killing squads in Operation Barbarossa that were responsible for carrying out mass executions behind the German lines.
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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.
The Einsatzgruppen were formed in the spring of 1941. In anticipation of the assault on Russia, Hitler issued an order directing that the SD and the Security Service be called in to assist the army in breaking every means of resistance behind the fighting front. 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.
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 llth German Army
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.
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nurenberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Volume IV, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 35 -36
(on invasion day)
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
18th Army Generaloberst Georg von Kuchler
(commander Army Group North 17.January 1942 | Generalfeldmarschall 30. Juni 1942)
16th Army GeneraloberstErnst Busch
(Generalfeldmarschal 1943-2-1)
4th Panzer Group Generaloberst Erich Hoeppner
(made Commander in Chief of the renamed 4th Panzer Army for Operation Typhoon, cashiered after withdrawing 7 January in the face of Red Army winter offensive, Hung 1944-8-8 for part in assassination attempt on Hitler)
Army Group C was renamed Army Group North for the Russian invasion, the 18th Army, 16th Army and the 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 Lenningrad.
"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 Panzer Group 4 under General Hoeppner, 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 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.
Franz Walter Stahlecker(killed by Soviet partisans in 1942),
Heinz Jost - Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
Martin Sandberger (Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life)
Erich Ehrlinger Escaped justice, arrested in 1958, sentenced 1963 in Frankfurt to 12 years, released Aug 1965 Died? 2004,
Edward Strauch Guilty, sentenced to death, died in hospital
Rudolf Batz 1961 arrested/suicide
Edward Strauch, Guilty, sentenced to death, died in hospital
Rudolf Lange (KIA February 1945)
Karl Jäger ................................................... See Jäger Report Below
arrested March 1959/suicide June 1959
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 disabiled , 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.
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 slaughter 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.
MURDERED.....................134.298
Einsatzgruppe B moved out on the 24 of June 1941 from the city of Poznan. Sonderkommando 7a attached to the 9th Army under General Otto Colinburg-Bodigheim and was moved to Vilna where on the 3Oth of June to 3rd July it commenced slaughter operations. Vilna soon fell under the sphere of command of Einsatzgruppe A and Sonderkommando 7a was transferred to Minsk. 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 Bialystock 1st July passing through Slonim and Baranovichi and began slaughter operations in southern Bielorussia.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 Minsk and remained until September 9 1941. From Minsk it reached Mogilev which became its general quarters. From Mogilev Einsatzkommando 8 carried out successive slaughter "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 slaughters 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 slaughtering 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 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 slaughter from Veliki-Luki, Kalinin, Orsha, Gomel, Tsernigov and Orel, to Kursk.
Vilna, Nevel, Gorodoik, Vitbesk, Welish, Rshev, Vyasma, Kalinin, Klinzy
MURDERS......6.788
Walter Blume
Eugen Steimle
Karl Matschke
Albert Rapp
Helmut Loos
Gerhard Bast
Brest-Litovsk, Kobrin, Pruzhany, Slonim, Baranovichi, Minsk, Orsha, Klinzy, Briansk, Kursk, Tserigov, Orel
MURDERS......6.788
Günter Rausch
Adolf Ott
See Vorkommando Moskau
Volkovisk, Baranovichi, Bobruisk, Lahoysk, Mogilev and Minsk
MURDERS......74.740
Heinz Richter
Erich Isselhorst
Hans Schindhelm
Vilna, Grodno, Lida, Bielsk-Podlaski, Nevel, Lepel, Surazh, Vyasma, Gshatsk, Mozhaisk, Vitbesk, Smolensk, Varena.
MURDERS......41.340
Alfred Filbert
swald Schäfer
Wihelm Wiebens
Friedrich Buchardt
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
MURDERS......4.660
Woldemar Klingelhöfer
Erich Körting
Wilhelm Bock
Rudolf Schmücher
Walter Blume
Wilhelm Eckhardt
MURDERED....................118.341
Max Thomas
Lvov, Lutsk, Rovno, Zhitomir, Pereyaslav, Yagotin, Ivankov, Radomyshl, Lubny, Poltava, Kiev, Kursk Kharkov.
MURDERS...59.018
Erwin Weimann
Eugen Steimle
Theodor Christensen
? Schmidt
Lvov, Tarnopol, Kremenchug, Poltava, Slaviansk, Proskurov, Vinnitsa, Kramatorskaya, Gorlovka and Rostov
MURDERS...6.329
(Hermann, Fendler, F. Braune, Haensch)
Lothar Fendler
Fritz Braune
Walter Hänsch
August Meier
Friedrich Suhr
Waldemar Krause
Lvov, Skvira and Kiev
MURDERS....46.102
Erwin Schulz
August Meier
Commander September 5 1941 to January 1942 transferred to 4b
Lvov, Zlochev, Zhitomir, Proskurov, Vinnitza, Dniepropetrovsk, Krivoi Rog, Stalino and Rostov
MURDERS....5.577
Erhard Kröger, Kroeger
Robert Mohr
Commander November 1941 to September 1942
Actions around: Awdejewka, Berdjansk, Dnjepropetrovsk, Gorlovka, Grischinov, Igrin, Makejewka, Schachty, Stalino(Donetsk)
First experimental use of Gassing Truck Stalino(Donetsk) Donbas Hotel in March 1942 succeeded in the murder of about 50 Jews in 15 to 20 minutes.
Wuppertal in 1965 condemned to 8 years of prison
Friedrich Suhr
Ernst Biberstein
Otto Ohlendorf (Bierkamp)
Seetzen (Christmann)
Alois Persterer
Zapp
B. Müller (W. Braune, P. Schultz)Dr. Werner Braune
Nosske Gustav Nosske(Ministerialrat E. Müller)
Several officers were tried and hung after the war. See Einsatzgruppen Trial
The Commander of the security police and the SD Einsatzkommando 3
Kauen [Kaunas],
1 December 1941
-------------------------- |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. oficcials 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. officals (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
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
Sheet 3
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
Sheet 4
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
Sheet 5
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
sheet 6
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
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.
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The distance between from the assembly point to the graves was on average 4 to 5 km.
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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 moe urgently. I am of the view that the strelization programme of the male worker Jews should be started immediately so that reproduction is prevented. If despite sterlization 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.