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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2890 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 5 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF OTTO OHLENDORF, 24 APRIL 1947, CONCERNING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EINSATZGRUPPEN | |
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| I, Otto Ohlendorf, swear,
depose, and state — 1. The Einsatzgruppen for the Eastern Campaign (Russia 1941) began as a result of an agreement between the Chief of the Security Police and Security Service on the one hand, and the Chiefs of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces and the High Command of the Army on the other. As I remember it, this agreement was signed by Heydrich and a representative of the High Command of the Army. On the basis of this agreement between the Chief of the Security Police and Security Service, the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces and the High Command of the Army, the Einsatzgruppen were to take over the political security of the front areas, which, up to the time of the Russian campaign had been the charge of the army units themselves. The secret field police were to occupy themselves only with security within the troops to which they were assigned. 2. As far as I remember, this agreement took effect about three weeks before the start of the Russian campaign and was as follows: a. The Chief of the Security Police and SD formed his own motorized military units in the form of Einsatzgruppen, which were divided into Einsatzkommandos and Sonderkommandos and were to be assigned in their entirety to the army groups or armies. The chief of the Einsatzgruppen was the deputy of the Chief of the Security Police and SD, who was assigned to the commanders in chief of the army groups or armies. b. The armies or army groups had to supply the Einsatzgruppen with quarters, food, repairs, gasoline, and the like. Each army group and the 11th Army, the latter as nucleus of another army group for the Caucasus, was assigned an Einsatzgruppe, which in turn was divided into Einsatzkommandos and Sonderkommandos. 3. During the Russian campaign there were four Einsatzgruppen, which bore the identifying letters A, B, C, and D. The |
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