In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish
Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing
4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into
the Soviet Union. Operational groups of the German Security
Service, SD, followed into the Baltic and the Black Sea areas.
Their orders: neutralize elements hostile to Nazi domination.
Combined SS and SD headquarters were set up in Riga (northern),
Mogilev (middle) and Kiev (southern), each with subordinate units
of the SD, the Einsatzgruppen, and lower echelons of
Einsatzkommandos. Communist and Soviet NKVD (People's Commissariat
for Internal Affairs) agents were targeted, and from August 1941 to
March 1943, 4,000 Soviet and communist agents were arrested and
executed. In addition, far greater numbers of partisans and
communists were shot to ensure political and ethnic purity in the
occupied territories. Einsatzgruppe A, under Adolf Eichmann,
executed 29,000 people-listed as 'Jews' or 'mostly Jews'-in Latvia
and Lithuania in the early stages of the operation. In the
Einsatzgruppe C report for September 1941, there is a comment,
'50,000 executions �foreseen� in Kiev'. In five months in
1941, Einsatzkommando III commander, Karl Jager, reported killing
138,272 (48,252 men, 55,556 women and 34,464 children). The
Einsatzgruppen were death squads-their tools the rifle, the pistol
and the machine gun. It is estimated that the Einsatzgruppen
executed more than 2 million people between 1941 and 1945,
including 1.3 million Jews.
General
| Imprint: |
Pen & Sword Military
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
A History of Terror |
| Release date: |
April 2018 |
| Authors: |
Gerry van Tonder
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
128 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5267-2909-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-5267-2909-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781526729095 |
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