page_title: Einsatzkommando
section_title: Einsatzgruppe A
hierarchical_section_title: Einsatzkommando / Einsatzgruppe A
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Oberstes Gericht, Globke-Prozess, Beweisstück Zentralbild 16.7.1963 Dokumente über faschistische Greuel aus der UdSSR. UBz: Reproduktion der auszugsweise während des 7. Verhandlungstages des Globke-Prozesses am 15. Juli verlesenen Dokumente über faschistische Greuel in der Sowjetunion. Pedantisch genau zieht hier ein SS-Standartenführer Jäger die grausige Bilanz: "In Litauen gibt es keine Juden mehr." (siehe auch 2 - 6 u. 8 - 10N)
context_page_description: During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of the Einsatzgruppen – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic killing of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, convicted, and executed.
context_section_description: Einsatzgruppe A, attached to the Army Group North, was formed in Gumbinnen in East Prussia on 23 June 1941. Stahlecker – its first commander – deployed the unit toward the Lithuanian border. His group consisted of 340 men from the Waffen-SS, 89 from the Gestapo, 35 from the SD, 133 from the Orpo, and 41 from the Kripo. Soviet troops withdrew from the Lithuanian temporary capital Kaunas (Kovno) the day before, and the city was taken over by Lithuanians during the anti-Soviet uprising. On 25 June, the Einsatzgruppe A entered Kaunas with the forward units of the German army.
  Commanders
  SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. Franz Walter Stahlecker (22 June 1941–23 March 1942)
  SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Heinz Jost (29 March–2 September 1942)
  SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader (10 September 1942–4 September 1943)
  SS-Oberführer Friedrich Panzinger (5 September 1943–6 May 1944)
  SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs (6 May–10 October 1944)
  Sonderkommando 1a
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Martin Sandberger (June 1941–1943)
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Baatz (1 August 1943–15 October 1944)
  Sonderkommando 1b
  SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Erich Ehrlinger (June–November 1941)
  SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Hoffmann (As Deputy) – (January–March 1942)
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Eduard Strauch (March–August 1942)
  SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Isselhorst (30 June–1 October 1943)
  Einsatzkommando 1a
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Martin Sandberger (June 1942–1942)
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl Tschierschky (1942)
  SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Isselhorst (November 1942 – June 1943)
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Baatz (June–August 1943)
  Einsatzkommando 1b
  SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Hermann Hubig (June–October 1942)
  SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Manfred Pechau (October–November 1942)
  Einsatzkommando 1c
  SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Graaf (1 August-28 November 1942)
  Einsatzkommando 2
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Batz (June–4 November 1941)
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Eduard Strauch (4 November–2 December 1941)
  SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Rudolf Lange (3 December 1941–1944)
  SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Manfred Pechau (October 1942)
  SS-Sturmbannführer Reinhard Breder (26 March 1943 – July 1943)
  SS-Obersturmbannführer Oswald Poche (30 July 1943–2 March 1944)
  Einsatzkommando 3
  SS-Standartenführer Karl Jäger (June 1941–1 August 1943)
  SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs (15 September 1943–27 May 1944)
  SS-Sturmbannführer Hans-Joachim Böhme (11 May–July 1944)
caption: Einsatzkommando 3 tally sheet from the Jäger Report, 1941
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