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The “Final Solution”: Himmler Reports on Executions in the East

(1942)

  August September October November
Prisoners executed
after interrogation
 2,100 1,400 1,596 2,731
         
Accomplices of guerrilla and
guerrilla suspects executed
1,198  3,020 6,333 3,706
         
Jews executed 31,246 165,282 95,735 70,948
         
Villages and localities
Burned down or destroyed
35 12 20 92

Source: Report No. 51 of Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler to Hitler about mass executions in the east, 1942 [Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XIII, p. 269-272] Shamash