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Einsatzgruppen Operational Situational Reports [ OSR's #8 - #195 ]
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Operational Situation Report USSR No. 67
The Chief of the Security Police and the SD, Berlin,
During the period of this report, 2,739 persons were liquidated, and approximately 2,800 persons were arrested. The illegal work of the Communists continues.
It is expressed in horror propaganda, distribution of pamphlets, and acts of sabotage. In the area of Einsatzkommando Lutsk, army guards were repeatedly shot at by such elements. Adequate retaliation measures were carried out. Communist propaganda by pamphlet continues and is enhanced by propaganda material that is dropped from Russian aircraft (particularly in Volhynia).
Einsatzgruppe B
Location: Smolensk
Fight against partisan groups The current actions against partisan groups are continuing success- fully. Members of the Gruppe H.Q. had to liquidate 26 Jews in Monastyrshchina, about 70 km south of Smolensk, who were cooperating with the partisans, terrorizing the loyal population and sabotaging the economic measures ordered by the military headquarters in Smolensk.
With the help of the anti-Bolshevik section of the pop- ulation, the members of the Gruppe H.Q. located a group of partisans near Monastyrshchina numbering 150-200 with a large ammunition store. In cooperation with the Army, their destruction is proceeding. At the request of the intelligence officer of the H.Q. of 2nd Army the Sonderkommando 7b joined in the fight against the partisans ' According to information, former armed members of the Red Army are in hiding in a village near Sokhanova. They terrorize that part of the population that is willing to work. A special unit ofEK 7b established that the village in question was Sharjevshtina.
The special unit surrounded the village, made a surprise entry and caught six partisans who were liquidated. Loaded Russian military rifles and pistols were taken. By the way, all of the partisans were members of the CF. Einsatzkommando 9 which is stationed in Vitebsk has accomplished four major actions against the partisans. The broad woodlands made matters particularly difficult. Anyhow, it was possible to surprise and destroy a larger number of partisans.
Sonderkommando 8 discovered among other things a Jew in Cherven who had been a school supervisor until [the outbreak of] the war. He had joined a partisan group that roamed the forests of Cherven under the leadership of a Russian lieutenant. Informed Army personnel have successfully combed the area in question. The mayor ofRzhev and his house manager were liquidated because of the same activities. In the Rzhev area a Kommando of the EK 8 has arrested and finished off 51 men because they had been active as partisans. Most of them were Red Army members wearing civilian clothes who had disposed of their identification papers.
Two Platoons of the police were attacked by a Red Army unit the size of a battalion. Because of their great number, the police had to retreat losing 12 dead and two injured. A retaliatory action by the 262nd Division is in progress. According to information received in Slutsk, strong Bed forces are on their way there. The defense of the town was prepared^ The entire German force was alerted as well as the sub unit of EK 8 which was on the spot.
Since the last report this sub-unit has executed 77 men who had been connected with the partisans and had been convicted of acts of sabotage. Lately the Vorkommando Moscow received in Smolensk more and more information about partisan activities in the surrounding villages.
This man, according to the testimony of witnesses, had about 200 persons on his conscience. A number of Jews, who agitated the population by spreading rumors, were also shot. A secret letter was found in the Communist party building in Velish during the examination of file materials there. It concerned an instruc- tion of the delegate of the People's Commissariat regarding preparations for December 25,1940, in which complete mobilization by January 10, 1941 is called for. Moreover, files on the Komsomol membership and of the Communist party could be secured in the NKVD building. The formation of a Jewish Council, the marking, and registration of the Jews were also carried out.
Eight Jews who had tried to intimidate the population by spread- ing false rumors and who were also members of the Komsomol were liquidated in Kolkhoz Voroshilov, 17 km from Velish. Moreover, the former head of the office of forestry development in Velish, a Jewess, was shot for sabotage. In Novo-Svienchiany, 169 and in Vilnius 612 more persons were subjected to special treatment. In Vitebsk, the actions against the Jewish intelligentsia were continued. A Jewess insidiously asked a German soldier to open a door. As he did so the soldier's lower arm was torn off by an explosive charge.
3,105 more Jews and 34 Communists were liquidated in Chernovtsy in the course of search actions east of the Dniester. No terror and sabotage groups were discovered.
Sources:
NARA Translation by Hermann Feuer
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