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| An Einsatz unit, operating in the Ukraine, communicated that in Rakov — |
"1,500 Jews were shot." (3876-PS.) |
| A report on activities in Minsk in March 1942 reads — |
"In the course of the greater action against Jews, 3,412 Jews were shot." (NO-2662.) |
| Einsatzkommando 6, operating in Dnepropetrovsk, reported that on 13 October 1941 — |
"Of the remaining 30,000 approximately 10,000 were shot." (NO-2832.) |
| A report dated 16 January 1942, accounting for the activities of Einsatzkommando 2, stated that in Riga on 30 November 1941 — |
"10,600 Jews were shot." (NO-3405.) |
| In time the authors of the reports apparently tired of the word "shot" so, within the narrow compass of expression allowed in a military report, some variety was added. A report originating in Latvia read — |
"The Higher SS and Police leader in Riga, SS Obergruppenfuehrer Jeckeln, has meanwhile embarked on a shooting action [Erschiessungsaktion] and on Sunday, the 30 November 1941, about 4,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto and an evacuation transport from the Reich were disposed of." (NO-3257. ) |
| And so that no one could be in doubt as to
what was meant by "Disposed of", the word "killed" was added in
parentheses. A report originating from the Crimea stated laconically — |
"In the Crimea 1,000 Jews and gypsies were executed." (NO-2662. ) |
| A report of Einsatzgruppe B, in July 1941, relates that the Jews in Lithuania were placed in concentration camps for special treatment, and then the report explains — |
"This work was now begun and thus about 500 Jews, saboteurs among them, are liquidated daily." (NO-2937.) |
| A Kommando, operating in Lachoisk, reported — |
"A large-scale anti-Jewish action was carried out in the village of Lachoisk. In the course of this action 920 Jews were executed with the support of a Kommando of the SS Division 'Reich'. The village may now be described as 'free of Jews'." (NO-3143.) |
| Einsatzgruppe B, operating out of headquarters Smolensk, reported on one of its operations in October — |
"In Mogilev the Jews tried also to sabotage their removal into the ghetto by migrating in masses. The Einsatzkommando No. 8, with the help of the ordinary police, blocked the roads |
