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"During detailed consultations with the SS Brigadefuehrer Zenner and the extremely capable Chief of the SD, SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Dr. jur. Strauch, we found that we had liquidated approximately 55,000 Jews in White Ruthenia during the last 10 weeks." (3428-PS.) |
| Speaking of another place, the commissioner general proclaimed — "In the Minsk-Land area the Jewry was completely exterminated." Then he complained that the army had been encroaching on the Einsatz prerogatives. |
"The preparations for the liquidation of the Jews in the Glebokie area were completely disrupted by an arbitrary action by the Rear Army Area, which has already been reported to your office. In the Rear Army Area -- I was not contacted, 10,000 Jews were liquidated who were scheduled for extermination by us anyway." (3428-PS.) |
| However, the commissioner general quickly got over his resentment and went on with his narrative. |
"In the city of Minsk, about 10,000 Jews were liquidated on 28 and 29 July, 6,500 of whom were Russian Jews — mainly old people, women, and children — the remainder consisted of Jews unfit for work, most of whom had been sent to Minsk from Vienna, Brno, Bremen, and Berlin in November of the previous year, at the Fuehrer's orders. The Slutsk area was also ridded of several thousand Jews. The same applies to Novogrudok and Vileika." |
| In Baranovichi and Hancevichi he found that
the killings had not been going as well as he desired. "Radical measures still
remain to be taken." He explained, "In Baranovichi, about 10,000 Jews are still
living in the town alone." However, he would attend to that situation at once.
He promised that 9,000 of them would be "liquidated next month."
(3428-PS.) As of 15 October 1941, Einsatzgruppe A declared that the sum total of Jews executed in Lithuania was 71,105. (L-180.) As an appendix to the report, Einsatzgruppe A submitted the inventory of the people killed as a business house might submit a list of stock on hand. |
| "Total | Jews | Communists | Total |
| Lithuania | 80,311 | 860 | 81,171 |
| Latvia | 30,025 | 1,843 | 31,868 |
| Estonia | 474 | 684 | 1,158 |
| White Ruthenia | 7,620 | — | 7,620 |
| Total | 118,430 | 3,387 | 121,817 |
