The Einsatzgruppen or murder commandos
By: John Mendelsohn, editor ; Donald S. Detwiler, advisory editor ; introduction by Willard Allen Fletcher
Contributors: Mendelsohn, John, 1928-; Detwiler, Donald S.
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Clark, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781616190101
Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources; Mass murder -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources; Gas vans (Gas chambers) -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Notes: Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 1982, as v. 10 in series The Holocaust : selected documents in eighteen volumes.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Report on the allocation of responsibilities for Einsatzgruppen between the German Army and the SD, Apr. 4, 1941; in English translation only; title: Order by General Walter von Reichenau, commanding general of the Sixth German Army, on the behavior of the troops in the Eastern sector, Oct. 10, 1941; with translation and SEA; title: Affidavit by SS Gruppenfuehrer (Lt. General) Otto Ohlendorf on the functions of   the Einsatzgruppen, Apr. 24, 1947; with translation and SEA; title: Affidavit by SS Gruppenfuehrer Otto Ohlendorf, leader of Einsatzgruppe D, on exterminations, Army responsibility for the killings, and functions of the Einsatzgruppen, Nov. 5, 1945; with SEA and translation; title: Excerpts from Ereignismeldung UdSSR (Operational Situation Report, USSR or OSR), No. 37, detailing executions of Jews in Shitomir and elsewhere in the Soviet Union, July 29, 1941; title: Excerpts from OSR, No. 97, detailing the situation in the Kiev area just before the executions at Babi Yar, Sept. 28, 1941; with SEA; title: Excerpts of OSR, No. 101, noting the mass murder at Babi Yar, Oct. 2, 1941; with SEA; title: Excerpts from OSR, No. 106, with description of the murders at Babi Yar and in Shitomir, Oct. 7, 1941; with SEA; title: Excerpts from OSR, No. 111, detailing the execution of Jews in Estonia, Oct. 12, 1941; with SEA; title: Excerpts from OSR, No. 129, with a report on the Jews in Russia and the number of Jews murdered by Einsatzgruppe D, Nov. 5, 1941; with SEA; title: Excerpts from OSR, No. 150, detailing the killings of Einsatzgruppe D, Jan. 2, 1942; with SEA; title: Excerpts from "Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten" (Reports from the Occupied Eastern Territories, ROT), No. 9, on Jews in Bjelo Russia, June 26, 1942; with SEA and translation; title: Excerpts from ROT, No. 12, on killings in the Ukraine, July 17, 1942; with SEA; title: Translation of a report by a Major Riesen on executions of Jews by Rumanian units and Sonderkommando lOB in Czernowitz, July 9, 1941; with SEA; title: Excerpts in English translation of a report by the High Command of the Eleventh German Army on public executions of Jews by Sonderkommando 1OA in Genitschesk, Oct. 6 through 14, 1941; with SEA; title: Report by German Army Rear Area Command No. 553 on the proposed execution of Jewish inmates of the concentration camp in Dshankoj, Jan. 1, 1942; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by SS Standartenfuehrer (Colonel) Paul Blobel on his career, including his direction of Sonderkommando 4A, mass executions at Babi Yar in the Kiev area, and executions of Jews using gas vans from June 1941 to April 1945, June 6, 1947; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by SS Standartenfuehrer Paul Blobel describing how the Einsatzgruppen destroyed evidence of the mass executions of Jews by exhuming and   burning the remains of the victims, June 18, 1947; with SEA and translation; title: Translation of an affidavit by SS Obersturmbannfuehrer (Colonel) Werner Braune on his career, particularly his activities as chief of Eznsatzkommando 11B and executions, July 8, 1947; with SEA; title: Affidavit by Obersturmfuehrer (SS) Heinz Schubert on Einsatzgruppe D, Dec. 7, 1945; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by SS Standartenfuehrer Walter Blume on his activities as chief of Sonderkommando 7A, including executions, June 29, 1947; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Ernst Biberstein on his career his activities as chief of Einsatzkommando 6, and the supervision of executions, July 2 1947; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by SS Brigadefuehrer (Brigadier General) Heinz Jost on his career and   his activities as chief of Einsatzgruppe A, June 27, 1947; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by SS Brigadefuehrer Franz Six on his career and his activities as chief of advanced Vorkommando Moskau, July 29, 1947; with SEA; title: Affidavit by SS Brigadefuehrer Erich Naumann on his career and his activities as   chief of Einsatzgruppe B, June 27, 1947; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by SS Brigadefuehrer Erwin Schulz on his career and his activities as chief of Einsatzkommando 5, Dec. 20, 1945; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by SS Sturmbannfuehrer (Major) Karl Jonas on executions by Sonderkommando 11B in Simferopol, Sept. 30, 1947; with SEA; title: Translation of an affidavit by Robert Barth, a member of Sonder/commando lOB, on activities of the Einsatzgruppen, Oct. 8, 1943; with SEA; title: Affidavit by Guenther Otto on executions of Jews by the baker and butcher companies, July 25, 1947; with SEA; title: Affidavit by Albert Hartl, an SS specialist on intelligence from religious groups, on witnessing mass executions of Jews in Kiev and Krementschug in the spring of 1942, Oct. 9, 1947; with SEA and translation; title: Affidavit by Alfred Winter, a German Jew, on executions in Riga, Oct. 15, 1947; with SEA and translation; title: Memorandum for Dr. Marquart with reports on anti-Jewish actions in Minsk, looting of Jewish possessions, and brutal murders in Sluzk and other places, Nov. 21, 1941; with SEA and translation.