Einsatzkommando

"Einsatzkommando" refers to a sub-group of the five Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads — 3,000 men — responsible for systematically killing every Jew and Soviet political commissar behind the Wehrmacht lines of Operation Barbarossa.

As a military term, the German "Einsatzkommando" (mission commando) is roughly equivalent to the English, "task force", nevertheless, the denotation and the connotation clearly communicate that the commando had only one task.

=Command=

Organization of the Einsatzgruppen

Per a Hitler–Himmler directive, the Einsatzgruppen were created by Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Security Police and the SD, and operated by the RSHA, the Reich Security Main Office, his office.

In spring of 1941, the RSHA formed the Einsatzgruppen, in anticipation of the assault on Russia; Hitler had ordered the SD and the Security Police to help the Wehrmacht break native resistance behind the Wehrmacht's fighting front. The Quartermaster General of the Army, General Wagner (representing Keitel, Chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht) met Heydrich and agreed to the activation, commitment, command, and jurisdiction of Security Police and SD units in the Wehrmacht's table of operations and equipment (TOE): in the rear operational areas, the Einsatzgruppen were to function "in administrative sub-ordination to the field armies" in order to effect the tasks assigned them by Heydrich and Himmler.

The military commanders knew the task of the Einsatzgruppen. Hitler had instructed them that it was the mission of these special task forces to exterminate all Jews and soviet political commissars in their assigned territories. The Einsatzgruppen depended upon their sponsoring Army commander for billet, food, and transport; relations between the regular army and the Security Police and the SD were close; Einsatzgruppen commanders reported that the understanding — of the sponsoring Wehrmacht commanders — about the Einsatzgruppen task made their operations considerably easier.

In the beginning, four Einsatzgruppen were formed, each attached to an Army group: Einsatzgruppe A to Army Group North; Einsatzgruppe B to Army Group Center, Einsatzgruppe C to Army Group South, and Einsatzgruppe D to the llth German Army. Einsatzgruppen officers were drawn from the SD, the Waffen-SS, the Criminal Police (Kripo), and the Gestapo. The enlisted men were from the Waffen SS, the regular police, the Gestapo, and the locally-recruited police. When occasion demanded, Wehrmacht commanders bolstered the strength of the Einsatzgruppen with their own regular-army Werhmacht troops.

"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

Army Group North

(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 Generaloberst Ernst Busch

(Generalfeldmarschal 1943-2-1)

4th Panzer Group Generaloberst Erich Hoepner

(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 Leningrad.

Einsatzgruppe A

"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 Hoepner, 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."

1. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. Walter Stahlecker – (22RD JUNE 1941-23RD MARCH 1942)

2. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Heinz Jost – (29TH MARCH 1942-2ND SEPTEMBER 1942)

3. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Hubert-Achamer Pifräder – (10TH SEPTEMBER 1942-4TH SEPTEMBER 1943)

4. SS-Oberführer Friedrich Panziger – (5TH SEPTEMBER 1943-6TH MAY 1944)

5. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs – (6TH MAY 1944-10TH OCTOBER 1944)

onderkommando 1a

1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Martin Sandberger – (JUNE 1941-1943)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Baatz – (1ST AUGUST 1943-15TH OCTOBER 1944)

onderkommando 1b

1. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Erich Ehrlinger – (JUNE 1941-NOVEMBER 1941)

2. SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Hoffmann – (AS DEPUTY) – (JANUARY 1942-MARCH 1942)

3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Eduard Strauch – (MARCH 1942-AUGUST 1942)

4. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Isselhorst – (30TH JUNE 1943-1ST OCTOBER 1943)

Einsatzkommando 1a

1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Martin Sandberger – (JUNE 1942-1942)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl Tschierschky – (1942)

3. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Isselhorst (NOVEMBER 1942-JUNE 1943)

4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Baatz – (JUNE 1943-AUGUST 1943)

Einsatzkommando 1b

1. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Hermann Hubig – (JUNE 1941-OCTOBER 1942)

2. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Manfred Pechau (OCTOBER 1942-NOVEMBER 1942)

Einsatzkommando 1c

1. SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Graaf – (1ST AUGUST 1942-28TH NOVEMBER 1942)

=Einsatzkommando 2=

1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Batz – (JUNE 1941-4TH NOVEMBER 1941)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Eduard Strauch – (4TH NOVEMBER 1941-2ND DECEMBER 1941)

3. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Rudolf Lange – (3RD DECEMBER 1941-1944)

4. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Manfred Pechau – (OCTOBER 1942)

5. SS-Sturmbannführer Reinhard Breder – (26TH MARCH 1943-JULY 1943)

6. SS-Obersturmbannführer Oswald Poche – (30th JULY 1943-2ND MARCH 1944)

Einsatzkommando 3

1. SS-Standartenführer Karl Jäger – (JUNE 1941-1ST AUGUST 1943) See Jäger Report Below

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs – (15TH SEPTEMBER 1943-27TH MAY 1944)

3. SS-Sturmbannführer Hans-Joachim Böhme – (11TH MAY 1944-JULY 1944)

Jäger Report

Author of the most precise, surviving chronicle of the activities of an Einsatzkommando. "The Jäger Report" is a tally sheet of the actions of Einsatzkommando 3 — a running total of their killings of 136,421 Jews (46,403 men 55,556 women, 34,464 children), 1,064 Communists, 653 mentally disabled, and 134 others, from the 2nd of July to the 1st of December, 1941. "The Jäger Report" is available below. A second, major sweep occurred in 1942, before death camp killing replaced Einsatzkommando open-pit executions. Einsatzkommando 3 operated in the Kovno (Kaunis) district, west of Vilna (Vinius) in contemporary Lithuania.

Army Group Center

Einsatzgruppe B

The operational command of Einsatzgruppe B was begun with Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe; in November of 1941, he returned to Germany, ceding command to Erich Naumann (until 12 March 1943); then Horst Bõhme assumed command from Naumann (until 28 August 1943). After 1943, the mass killings of Einsatzgruppe B diminished, and command went to Erich Ehrlinger (until 28 April 1944). The last commander was Heinz Seetzen; in August of 1944, Einsatzgruppe B was decommissioned. On 14th of November of 1941, Gruppenführer Nebe told Berlin that, up until then, 45,000 persons had been eliminated. A further report, dated 15 December 1942, established that the Einsatzgruppe B had shot a total of 134,298 persons.

1. SS-Gruppenführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Arthur Nebe – (JUNE 1941-NOVEMBER 1941)

2. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Erich Naumann – (NOVEMBER 1941-MARCH 1943)

3. SS-Standartenführer Horst-Alwin Böhme – (12TH MARCH 1943-28TH AUGUST 1943)

4. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Erich Ehrlinger – (28TH AUGUST 1943-APRIL 1944)

5. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Heinz Seetzen – (28TH APRIL 1944-AUGUST 1944)

6. SS-Standartenführer Horst-Alwin Böhme – (12TH AUGUST 1944-)

EXECUTED.....................134.298

Einsatzgruppe B departed, on the 24th of June 1941, from the city of Poznan. Sonderkommando 7a, attached to the 9th Army under General Otto Colinburg-Bodigheim, entered Vilna and effected thirteen (13) days of mass killing operations, from the 30th of June until the 3rd of July. Vilna soon was in the command sphere of Einsatzgruppe A and Sonderkommando 7a was transferred to Minsk.

Nebe consolidated Einsatzgruppe B near Minsk, establishing a headquarters, around the 5th of July, and remaining for some two months. The Gruppenführer determined that Sonderkommando 7a and Sonderkommando 7b and the Vorkommando Moskau would follow the Army Group Center, while Einsatzkommando 8 and Einsatzkommando 9 clean up to the sides of the spearhead. In compliance, Einsatzkommando 8 reached Bialystock on the 1st of July, passed through Slonim and Baranovichi, and began systematic mass killing operations in southern Bielorussia.

On the 5th of August, Gruppenführer Nebe move his Einsatzgruppen command to Smolensk, where the Vorkommando Moskau was concentrated. On the 6th of August, Einsatzkommando 8 reached Minsk , remaining until September 9 1941. From Minsk it reached Mogilev, which became its general headquarters, and from there Einsatzkommando 8 effected successive killings in Bobruisk, Gomel, Roslav, and Klinzy systematically attacking the local Jewish communities, and killing the inhabitants.

Meanwhile Einsatzkommando 9 was put to work; they had left Treuburg, in eastern Prussia, and reached Vilna on the 2nd of July. Their main theater of mass killing operations were Grodno and Bielsk-Podlaski(Biala-Podlaska). On the 20th of July it moved its headquarters to Vitbesk, and then exterminated the citizens of Polotzk, Nevel, Lepel, and Surazh. The command progressed to Vtasma, and from there they killed the communities of Gshatsk and Mozhaisk in the Moscow vicinity. The Soviet counter-offensive forced the Einsatzkommando to withdraw to Vitbesk on the 21st of December of 1941. Anticipating the fall of Moscow, the Vorkommando Moskau advanced to Maloyaroslavets, earlier captured by the Wehrmacht on the 18th of October of 1941. In practice, Sonderkommando 7a and Sonderkommando 7b operated behind the vanguard of the army. The actions were fast, in order to prevent the Jews from escaping the advancing German Army. To the South and east of Smolensk and Minsk, the two Sonderkommandos left a wake of dead civilians, from Veliki-Luki, Kalinin, Orsha, Gomel, Tsernigov and Orel, to Kursk.

onderkommando 7a

Vilna, Nevel, Gorodoik, Vitbesk, Welish, Rshev, Vyasma, Kalinin, and Klinzy

EXECUTIONS......6.788

1. SS-Standartenführer Dr. Walter Blume – (JUNE 1941-SEPTEMBER 1941)

2. SS-Standartenführer Eugen Steimle – (SEPTEMBER 1941-DECEMBER 1941)

3. SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt Matschke – (DECEMBER 1941-FEBRUARY 1942)

4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Albert Rapp – (FEBRUARY 1942-28TH JANUARY 1943)

5. SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Looss – (JUNE 1943-JUNE 1944)

6. SS-Sturmbannführer Gerhard Bast – (JUNE 1944-OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1944)

onderkommando 7b

Brest-Litovsk, Kobrin, Pruzhany, Slonim, Baranovichi, Minsk, Orsha, Klinzy, Briansk, Kursk, Tserigov, and Orel. EXECUTIONS......6.788

1. SS-Sturmbannführer Günther Rausch – (JUNE 1941-JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1942)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Ott – (FEBRUARY 1942-JANUARY 1943)

3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Josef Auinger – (JULY 1942-JANUARY 1943)

4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl-Georg Rabe – (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1943 – OCTOBER 1944)

=Sonderkommando 7c=

See Vorkommando Moskau

1. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Bock – (JUNE 1942)

2. SS-Hauptsturmführer Ernst Schmücker – (JUNE 1942-1942)

3. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Blühm – (1942-JULY 1943)

4. SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Eckhardt – (JULY 1943-DECEMBER 1943)

Einsatzkommando 8

Volkovisk, Baranovichi, Bobruisk, Lahoysk, Mogilev, and Minsk

EXECUTIONS......74.740

1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Otto Bradfisch – (JUNE 1941-1ST APRIL 1942)

2. SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Richter – (1ST APRIL 1942-SEPTEMBER 1942)

3. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Isselhorst – (SEPTEMBER 1942-NOVEMBER 1942)

4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans-Gerhard Schindhelm – (7TH NOVEMBER 1942-OCTOBER 1943)

5. SS-Sturmbannführer Alfred Rendörffer - (?)

Einsatzkommando 9

Vilna, Grodno, Lida, Bielsk-Podlaski, Nevel, Lepel, Surazh, Vyasma, Gshatsk, Mozhaisk, Vitbesk, Smolensk, and Varena.

EXECUTIONS......41.340

1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Alfred Filbert – (JUNE 1941-20TH OCTOBER 1941)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Oswald Schäfer – (OCTOBER 1941-FEBRUARY 1942)

3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Wiebens – (FEBRUARY 1942-JANUARY 1943)

4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Friedrich Buchardt – (JANUARY 1943-OCTOBER 1944)

5. SS-Sturmbannführer Werner Kämpf – (OCTOBER 1943-MARCH 1944)

Vorkommando Moskau

aka Sonderkommando 7c

Was to have operated in Moscow, until it became apparent that Moscow would not fall; it was incorporated to Sonderkommando 7b

Active in Smolensk

EXECUTIONS......4.660

1. SS-Brigadeführer Professor Dr. Franz Six – (20th JUNE 1941-20TH AUGUST 1941)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Waldemar Klingelhöfer – (AUGUST 1941-SEPTEMBER 1941)

3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Erich Körting – (SEPTEMBER 1941-DECEMBER 1941)

4. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Friedrich Buchardt – (DECEMBER 1941-JANUARY 1942)

5. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Bock – (JANUARY 1942-JUNE 1942)

Army Group South

=Einsatzgruppe C= EXECUTED....................118.341

1. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. Dr. Otto Rasch – (JUNE 1941-OCTOBER 1941)

2. SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Max Thomas – (OCTOBER 1941-29TH APRIL 1943)

3. SS-Standartenführer Horst-Alwin Böhme** – (6TH SEPTEMBER 1943-MARCH 1944)

Einsatzkommando 4a

Lvov, Lutsk, Rovno, Zhitomir, Pereyaslav, Yagotin, Ivankov, Radomyshl, Lubny, Poltava, Kiev, Kursk Kharkov.

EXECUTED...59.018

1. SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel – (JUNE 1941-13TH JANUARY 1942)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Erwin Weinmann – (13TH JANUARY 1942-27TH JULY 1942)

3. SS-Sturmbannführer Eugen Steimle – (AUGUST 1942-15TH JANUARY 1943)

4. SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Schmidt – (JANUARY 1943-FEBRUARY 1943)

5. SS-Sturmbannführer Theodor Christensen – (MARCH 1943-DECEMBER 1943)

Einsatzkommando 4b

Lvov, Tarnopol, Kremenchug, Poltava, Slaviansk, Proskurov, Vinnitsa, Kramatorskaya, Gorlovka and Rostov EXECUTED...6.329

1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Günther Herrmann – (JUNE 1941-OCTOBER 1941)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Fritz Braune – (2ND OCTOBER 1941-21ST MARCH 1942)

3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Walter Hänsch – (MARCH 1942-JULY 1942)

4. SS-Obersturmbannführer August Meier – (JULY 1942-NOVEMBER 1942)

5. SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Sühr – (NOVEMBER 1942-AUGUST 1943)

6. SS-Sturmbannführer Waldemar Krause – (AUGUST 1943-JANUARY 1944)

Einsatzkommando 5

Lvov, Skvira and Kiev

EXECUTED....46.102

1. SS-Oberführer Erwin Schulz – (JUNE 1941-AUGUST 1941)

2. SS-Sturmbannführer August Meier – (SEPTEMBER 1941-JANUARY 1942)

Einsatzkommando 6

Lvov, Zlochev, Zhitomir, Proskurov, Vinnitza, Dniepropetrovsk, Krivoi Rog, Stalino and Rostov

EXECUTED....5.577 1. SS-Standartenführer Dr. Erhard Kröger – (JUNE 1941-NOVEMBER 1941)

2. SS-Sturmbannführer Robert Möhr – (NOVEMBER 1941-SEPTEMBER 1942)

3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Ernst Biberstein – (SEPTEMBER 1942-MAY 1943)

4. ?

5. SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Sühr – (AUGUST 1943-NOVEMBER 1943)

Eleventh Army

Einsatzgruppe D

1. SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Dr. Otto Ohlendorf – (JUNE 1941-JULY 1942)

2. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Walter Bierkamp – (JULY 1942-MARCH 1943)

Einsatzkommando 10a

1. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Heinz Seetzen – (JUNE 1941-JULY 1942)

2. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Kurt Christmann – (AUGUST 1942-JULY 1943)

=Einsatzkommando 10b= 1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Alois Persterer – (JUNE 1941-DECEMBER 1942)

2. SS-Sturmbannführer Eduard Jedamzik – (DECEMBER 1942-FEBRUARY 1943)

=Einsatzkommando 11a = 1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Zapp – (JUNE 1941-JULY 1942)

2. Fritz Mauer (JULY 1942-OCTOBER 1942)

3. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Gerhard Bast – (NOVEMBER 1942-DECEMBER 1942)

4. SS-Sturmbannführer Werner Hersmann – (DECEMBER 1942-MAY 1943)

Einsatzkommando 11b

1. SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Unglaube – (JUNE 1941-JULY 1941)

2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Bruno Müller – (JULY 1941-OCTOBER 1941)

3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Werner Braune – (OCTOBER 1941-SEPTEMBER 1942)

4. SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Schultz – (SEPTEMBER 1942-FEBRUARY 1943)

=Einsatzkommando 12= 1. SS-Obersturmbannführer Gustav Nosske – (JUNE 1941-FEBRUARY 1942)

2. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Müller – (FEBRUARY 1942-OCTOBER 1942)

3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Günther Herrmann – (OCTOBER 1942-MARCH 1943)

Planned Einsatzkommando Units

*Einsatzkommando-6 Einsatzgruppen headed by Dr.Franz Six-planned for United Kingdom {England and Scotland}.

*Einsatzkommando Ägypten-planned for Jews resident in the Middle East-including "Palestine" {Israel}.

=Trials=

Several officers were tried and hung after the war. See Einsatzgruppen Trial

Report

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. officials 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. officials (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 -------- 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 The term "Einsatzkommando" is still in use for German paramilitary organizations, such as EKO Cobra.

See also

* Einsatzkommando Finnland (Alleged to have existed)