The Jäger Report , also Jaeger Report (full title: Complete tabulation of executions carried out in the Einsatzkommando 3 zone up to December 1, 1941 ) was written on 1 December 1941 by Karl Jäger , commander of Einsatzkommando 3 (EK 3), a death squad of Einsatzgruppe A attached to Army Group North in the Operation Barbarossa . It is the most detailed and precise surviving chronicle of the activities of one individual Einsatzkommando , and a key record documenting the Holocaust in Lithuania as well as in Latvia and Belarus .
14-712: The Jäger Report is a tally sheet of actions by Einsatzkommando 3, including the Rollkommando Hamann killing squad. The report keeps an almost daily running total of the murders of 137,346 people, the vast majority Jews, from 2 July 1941 to 25 November 1941. The report documents date and place of the massacres, number of victims and their breakdown into categories (Jews, communists, criminals, etc.). In total, there were 112 executions in 71 different locations in Lithuania, Latvia, and Belarus. On 17 occasions, daily casualties exceeded 2,000 people. On 9 February 1942, in
28-884: A handwritten note for Franz Walter Stahlecker , Jäger updated the totals to 138,272 people: 136,421 Jews (46,403 men, 55,556 women and 34,464 children), 1,064 communists , 653 mentally disabled, and 134 others. The report concluded that Lithuania was now free of Jews except for about 34,500 Jews concentrated in Vilnius , Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos . However, Jäger Report did not tally all Jewish deaths in Lithuania as it did not include executions by Einsatzkommando 2 in Šiauliai area (approx. 46,000 people), in some border areas (for example, in Šakiai on September 13, Kudirkos Naumiestis on September 19, Kretinga in July–August, Gargždai on June 24, 1941), or even in Vilnius (for example,
42-775: The Ponary massacre , and by the Tautinio Darbo Apsaugos Batalionas (TDA) in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas . In about six months an estimated 80% of all Lithuanian Jews were killed. The remaining few were spared for use as a labor force and concentrated in urban ghettos, mainly the Vilna and Kaunas Ghettos . The group consisted of 8–10 Germans from Einsatzkommando 3 , commanded by SS - Obersturmführer Joachim Hamann , and several dozen Lithuanians from
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70-449: The 3rd company of the TDA, commanded by Bronius Norkus . The unit had no permanent structure and was called for ad hoc missions in various towns in Lithuania. While Bubnys indicates Hamann primarily handed out assignments while not participating himself, post-war testimony indicates Hamann told others of his direct participation. The Jäger Report documents mass executions carried out by
84-466: The Jews from several nearby towns. Jews selected for executions were marched to the location, usually about 4–5 kilometres (2.5–3.1 mi) away from where they lived, and shot. Sometimes men were shot first, while women and children were executed towards the end of 1941. The corpses would be disposed of in pits dug in advance and the loot (clothes and other property of those killed) would be divided among
98-823: The Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclose the document to the German Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes . The document was first published in a Lithuanian collection of documents Masinės žudynės Lietuvoje in 1965 and in the Western press by Adalbert Rückerl [ de ] in 1972 as a facsimile . Rollkommando Hamann Rollkommando Hamann ( Lithuanian : skrajojantis būrys )
112-592: The civil administration ( the Reichskommissar ) and the Wehrmacht , and led to the prohibition: "these Jews and their families cannot be shot!" The goal of making Lithuania judenfrei could only be achieved by setting up a Rollkomando with selected men under the leadership of SS-Obersturmführer Hamann , who fully embraced my goals and knew how to guarantee collaboration with the Lithuanian partisans and
126-813: The competent civil authorities. ... The nine-page report was prepared in five copies, but only one survives, kept by the Special Archive of the Russian State Military Archive [ ru ] in Moscow . The copy was discovered in 1944 when the Red Army reoccupied Lithuania, but it was not made known to scholars or the judiciary evaluating Nazi war crimes. Only in 1963, during the in absentia trial of Hans Globke in East Germany and four years after Jäger's suicide, did
140-1065: The perpetrators. Such killings became known as "actions" ( German : Aktion , Yiddish : Aktsiye ). Adalbert R%C3%BCckerl Look for Adalbert Rückerl on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Adalbert Rückerl in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
154-715: The report is missing the October 1 ( Yom Kippur ) massacre of some 4,000 Jews). Jäger concluded his report with the following: Ich kann heute feststellen, dass das Ziel, das Judenproblem für Litauen zu lösen, vom EK. 3 erreicht worden ist. In Litauen gibt es keine Juden mehr, ausser den Arbeitsjuden incl. ihrer Familien. Das sind in Schaulen ca. 4 500 in Kauen ....." 15 000 in Wilna........" 15 000. Diese Arbeitsjuden incl. ihrer Familien wollte ich ebenfalls umlegen,
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#1732780846649168-582: The unit in 54 locations across Lithuania. From July 13 to August 22, 1941, the commando operated out of Daugavpils , Latvia . During this time, the commando murdered 9,102 people, almost all of whom were Jews, from the Daugavpils Ghetto . Usually the unit arrived after the local Jews were already rounded up and gathered in a more secluded area, usually a forest or a distant field, by local Nazi authorities and Lithuanian local collaborators. Sometimes small, temporary ghettos were set up for gathering
182-575: Was a small mobile unit that committed mass murders of Lithuanian Jews in the countryside in July–October 1941, with an estimated death toll of at least 60,000 Jews. The unit was also responsible for many murders in Latvia from July through August 1941. At the end of 1941 the destruction of Lithuanian Jewry was effectively accomplished by Hamann's unit in the countryside, by the Ypatingasis būrys in
196-753: Was mir jedoch scharfe Kampfansage der Zivilverwaltung (dem Reichskommissar) und der Wehrmacht eintrug und das Verbot auslöste: Diese Juden und ihre Familien dürfen nicht erschossen werden! Das Ziel, Litauen judenfrei zu machen, konnte nur erreicht werden durch die Aufstellung eines Rollkommandos mit ausgesuchten Männern unter der Führung des SS-Obersturmführers Hamann, der sich meine Ziele voll und ganz aneignete und es verstand, die Zusammenarbeit mit den litauischen Partisanen und den zuständigen zivilen Stellen zu gewährleisten. ... These number in Šiauliai ca. 4 500 in Kaunas ..." 15 000 in Vilnius ...." 15 000. These Arbeitsjuden and their families I also wanted to off, which earned me sharp criticism from
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