Operational Situation Report USSR No.
176
The Chief of the Security Police and the SD Berlin,
March 4, 1942
Einsatzgruppe A
Location: Krasnogvardeisk
Byelorussia
1) On the night of February 24/25, the Lithuanian guard posted near the
Minsk waterworks was attacked and shot at by several partisans on skis. A
search action against the partisans had no result.
2) During the last few days, telephone wires and cables belonging to the
German Army were destroyed by partisan sabotage units.
3) The Jew Brasser was arrested on February 27 because he is highly suspect
of being a spy. Brasser is one of the best known sculptors and painters in
Russia and has worked for many political and military leaders in the Soviet
Union.
After the German occupation of Minsk, Brasser managed to gain access to
almost all [German] units in Minsk. He made drawings of many officers and
soldiers and thus succeeded in entering the private homes of offiecers and
soldiers.
4) The arrest of two Russian Jews led to the disclosure of extensive bribery
in the communal kitchen of Minsk run by the municipal administration for the
Byelorussian population. Food that was to be distributed to the people was
sold on the black market. About fifteen arrests are pending.
Sources: NARA Translations by Hermann Feuer Copyright: H.E.A.R.T 2008 |