. NMT04-T0169
Volume IV · Page 169
| Anna Prokovieva. The house was burned down on
8 August 1941 at about 21 hours, and its inhabitants arrested. Shortly after
midnight partisans set light to the house of the informer Yemelyanov. A
detachment sent to Jachnowa on the following day ascertained that the peasant
woman Ossipova had told the partisans that Yemelyanov had made the report which
had caused our action. Ossipova was shot and her house burned down. Further, two 16-year-old youths from the village were shot because, according to their own confession, they had rendered information and courier service to the partisans. Obviously, it was on account of these punitive measures that the partisans left the forest camp near the village. The camp was found in the course of our operation. |
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| [Signed] DR. STAHLECKER SS Brigadefuehrer and Brigadier General of Police. |
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| Riga, 29 September 1941 |
| The Commander of the Security Police and the
Security Service Einsatzgruppe A Report on Experiences in Counteractions Against Partisans |
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| The Einsatzkommandos of Einsatzgruppe A of the security police participated from the beginning in the fight against the partisans. Close collaboration with the armed forces and the exchange of experiences which were collected in the fight against partisans, brought about a thorough knowledge of the origin, organization, strength, equipment, and system used by the Red partisans as time went on.*** |
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| The main results of this work were the
following: I. Origin and organization of the partisans. |
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| IV. Counteractions against the partisans. |
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| As it was vitally necessary to obtain hints and information concerning abode and direction of the partisans from the population, the latter had to be forced by the use of the most severe measures, to supply useful information and reports. In the knowledge that the Russian has been accustomed from old to ruthless measures on the part of the authorities, the most severe measures were applied. He who helped the partisans to obtain food and shelter, rendered them information services, or who knowingly gave false information was shot or hanged. Houses where partisans obtained food or shelter were burned down. Where a larger number of vil- [...lagers] |
