Einsatzgruppen reports

The Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports (OSR's), or ERM for the German: Die Ereignismeldung UdSSR, were dispatches of the Nazi death squads, which documented the progress of the Holocaust behind the German-Soviet frontier, in the course of Operation Barbarossa during World War II. The extant reports were sent between June 1941 and April 1942 to the Chief of the Security Police and the SD (German: Chef des Sicherheitspolizei und SD) in Berlin from the occupied eastern territories including modern-day Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, and the Baltic Countries. During the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials the originals were grouped according to year and month and catalogued using a consecutive numbering system, listed in the following table. At present, the documents are held at the National Archives in Washington D.C..[1][2]

The reports were grouped and numbered by the Allies according to their content. The original German cables (Ereignismeldung) were sent in their own order by Einsatzgruppe A attached to Army Group North, Einsatzgruppe B attached to Army Group Center, Einsatzgruppe C attached to the Army Group South, and Einsatzgruppe D attached to the 11th Army. Notably, in Operational Situation Report number 19, Einsatzgruppe C was changed to Einsatzgruppe B and vice versa, thus confusing further reports of their shooting actions.[3]

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;[4] 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.[5] Notably, the reports do not include all killings before the end of 1942.[6]

Operational Situation Report (OSR): [Shootings]
OSR 8 [A] | OSR 10 [B] | OSR 12 [A] | OSR 13 [C] | OSR 14 [A,B] | OSR 17 [C] | OSR 19 [A,C,D] | OSR 21 [B] | OSR 24 [A,B,C] | OSR 25 | OSR 26 | OSR 27 | OSR 34 | OSR 38 [C] | OSR 45 [D] | OSR 61 [D] | OSR 63 [C,D] | OSR 64 | OSR 66 | OSR 67 | OSR 73 [B] | OSR 78 | OSR 80 [C] | OSR 81 | OSR 86 [C] | OSR 88 [A,C] | OSR 91 | OSR 94 [A,C] | OSR 97 | OSR 101 [C,D] | OSR 103 | OSR 106 [C] | OSR 108 [B] | OSR 112 [C] | OSR 113 | OSR 116 [A] | OSR 117 [D] | OSR 119 [C] | OSR 120 | OSR 126 | OSR 128 [C] | OSR 129 [D] | OSR 131 [A] | OSR 132 [C] | OSR 133 [B] | OSR 135 [C] | OSR 136 [A,D] | OSR 140 | OSR 143 [C] | OSR 148 [B] | OSR 149 [B] | OSR 150 [A,D] | OSR 151 | OSR 153 [D] | OSR 156 [A,C,D] | OSR 157 [D] | OSR 164 [A,C] | OSR 173 [C] | OSR 175 [A] | OSR 176 | OSR 177 [C] | OSR 178 [A,D] | OSR 179 | OSR 183 | OSR 184 [A,D] | OSR 186 [A] | OSR 191 [A] | OSR 193 [D] | OSR 195 [A] [7]

See also

Einsatzgruppe A members shoot Jews on the outskirts of Kovno, 1941-1942

Notes

  1. ↑ Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. "Index". Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports. HolocaustResearchProject.org.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Yitzhak Arad (2009). The Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Google Book (University of Nebraska Press). p. 126. ISBN 080322270X. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  4. ↑ H.E.A.R.T (2008). "Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports #156". Translated by Hermann Feuer. HolocaustResearchProject.org.
  5. ↑ H.E.A.R.T (2008). "Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Reports #67". Translated by Hermann Feuer. HolocaustResearchProject.org.
  6. ↑ Ronald Headland (1992). Messages of Murder: A Study of the Reports of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the Security Service, 1941-1943. Tables of Killing Statistics: Einsatzgruppe A, B, C, and D. (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press). pp. 98–101. ISBN 0838634184.
  7. ↑ Ken Lewis (December 30, 1997). "Summary of Operational Situation Reports: Shootings". Table of Contents : Einsatzgruppe A, B, C and D. The Einsatzgruppen Archives.com – via Internet Archive.

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