Jäger Report

The Jäger Report was written by Karl Jäger, commander of Einsatzkommando 3, a unit of Einsatzgruppen A which was attached to Army Group North during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. "Einsatzkommando" refers to a subgroup of the four Einsatzgruppen, killing units that were responsible for carrying out mass executions behind the German lines.

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 an almost daily running total of the liquidations of 136,421 Jews (46,403 men 55,556 women and 34,464 children), 1,064 Communists, 653 mentally disabled, and 134 others from 2 July 1941 to 1 December 1941.

Sample types of entries:

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 1941July: 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

Total carried forward 3,384

August:

(resistance, NKVD) 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(US Citizen-Jewish) 2.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 170 Jews, 1 US Jewess, 33 Jewesses, 4 Lith. Comm. 209(communists) 6-14.8.41 Rokiskis 493 Jews, 432 Russians, 56 Lithuanians (all active communists) 981(reprisals on "intellectuals") 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

Total carried forward 16,152

September:

(mentally sick, German woman married to Jew) 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.) 5,090

Total carried over 47,814

(small Shtetl-Hamlets ) 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(Mopping up) 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(feeding partisans) 11-12.9.41 Uzusalis Reprisal against inhabitants who fed Russ. partisans; some in possession of weapons 43

Total carried over 66,159October:

(rebelling against murder, Collaborators wounded) 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

(superfluous Jews in ghetto) 29.10.41 Kauen-F.IX 2,007 Jews, 2,920 Jewesses, 4,273 Jewish children (mopping up ghetto of superfluous Jews) 9,200November

(German Jews who fled east) 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(rules broken, German convert, Kalinin group) 29.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 17 Jews, 1 Jewess, for contravention of ghetto law, 1 Reich's German who converted to the Jewish faith and attended rabbinical school, then 15 terrorists from the Kalinin group 34(detachment in Dunanberg) 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(detachment in Vilna) 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

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 -------- 133,346 Prior to EK 3 taking over security police duties, Jews liquidated by pogroms and executions (including partisans) 4,000 ----------- 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.

The distance between from the assembly point to the graves was on average 4 to 5 Km.

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 more urgently. I am of the view that the sterilization programme of the male worker Jews should be started immediately so that reproduction is prevented. If despite sterilization a Jewess becomes pregnant she will be liquidated. (signed) Jager SS-Standartenfuhrer

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