Operational Situation Report USSR No. 156
(January 16, 1942)
The Chief of the Security Police and Security Service
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(51st copy)
OPERATIONAL SITUATION REPORT USSR No. 156
Location: Krasnogvardeisk
Situation of Security Police work
Arrests
The following were arrested:
41 Communist officials or members of Communist organizations
11 escaped prisoners of war
1 person for insulting the German Reich
1 person for manipulating Jewish property
1 person based on information in the secret file
2 persons for the purpose of examination of personal
data
1 Politruk, and
3 Russian prisoners of war were transferred to the camp from the
Stalag [prisoner of war camp] for instigating rebellion.
13 foreigner (Russians and Poles) who had entered
Latvia after June 17, 1940 were interned.
In the course of the action against the illegal Communist
organization in Riga, the number of arrested persons has risen to 115.
A hand-grenade was found in the possession of one of the arrested people
and secured. No special events were recorded during the inquiries. The
action is not yet concluded.
On December 1, 1941, a Russian pilot who had made
a forced landing was arrested 40 km from Modohn. He had been ordered
to pick out a suitable landing site for [partisan] parachutists.
Another partisan was arrested by the Auxiliary Police
in Daugavpils.
During the period covered by this report, the following
were shot by order of a summary court:
in Libau.........................20 Communists
.......................................1 Jew
in Modohn....................28 Communists
in Yakobstadt.................1 Communist
totaling.........................50 persons
The total to date in the area of Einsatzkommando 2
comes to 33,970.
On November 30, 1941, 10,600 Jews were shot in Riga.
The action was led by the Higher SS and Police Chief. One officer and
20 men of Einsatzkommando took part.
In the period November 29 to December 4, 1941, 18
formerly active members of a Communist organization were arrested in
the local district. At present, there are 469 political prisoners in
the prisons of Libau, of these, 219 in the concentration camp.
Because of political agitation at their place of work,
three released Ukrainian prisoners of war were arrested. The Ukrainians
work in closed work units. The arrested persons sang Communist songs
and gave inciting speeches.
A rumor is spread among the population that the Americans
together with the Swedes are preparing to land troops on the coast of
Kurland [Latvia]. This is to occur before Christmas. The rumor obviously
stems from Jewish quarters. According to some information, it is assumed
that the workers refuse to work for this reason. It is explained that
it makes no sense to earn money which will probably be valueless in
a short time.
The pamphlet "Latvia" No. 1 has again appeared in
the district of Libau. The pamphlet was sent from Riga by mail to the
dairy cooperative in Ezere.
The Jewish question in Kharkov
At the moment discussions are being conducted with
a view to the most thorough registration of the Jews. According to experience
gained so far, the lines between the saboteurs and the partisans are
mainly being kept open by the Jewish segment of the population of Kharkov.
The registration of all Jews would seem to indicate a considerable contribution
to the solution of the partisan problem in this area. In agreement with
the authorized Army HQ (1) and the Field Kommandatur, preliminary steps
to a major action against the Jews are to be taken by SK 4a, as soon
as arrangements for the accommodation of the Kommando has been made.
Activity of Teilkommando SK 4a in Poltava
On November 17, 1941, Teilkommando SK 4a took over
the arrangements of the proceedings left behind by SK 4b. Future cooperation
with the Security Service, Secret Military Police, Field Gendarmerie,
the German police and local Kommando was outlined in a meeting with
militia organized in Poltava. In this context the so-called political
department of the Poltavian Ukrainian militia was dissolved. In the
period ending November 20, 1941, quite a number of arrested Communists
were interrogated and most of them were shot.
A major Jewish action took place on November 23, 1941,
after the Jewish population, on the previous day, had been requested
by means of posters to assemble. In all, 1,538 Jews were shot. Their
clothing was handed over to the mayor of Poltava who gave special priority
to ethnic Germans when distributing it.
Activity of Teilkommando SK 4a in Lubny
On November 18, 1941, the Teilkommando of SK 4a at
Lubny took over the evaluation of the NKVD files left behind by the
Vorkommando as well as the handling of current correspondence.
Together with the Ukrainian militia set up in Lubny,
it was possible, with the aid of the acquired files, to arrest a considerable
number of NKVD agents and several leading Communists. 34 agents and
Communists, and 73 Jews were shot.
The total number of people shot by Sonderkommando
4a as of November 30, 1941, was 59,018.
Einsatzkommando 5 has, up to December 7, 1941, shot
36,147 people. Of this number, during the period November 23 through
30, 1941.
64 political functionaries
46 saboteurs and looters
2,615 Jews
were shot. During the period December 1 through 7, 1941, EK 5 shot
60 political functionaries
47 saboteurs
1,417 Jews.
SK 4b had to limit its activity again to work in the
places that it passed through during the march toward Kramaetorskya.
According to the information gathered so far, active partisan activity
has to be counted upon in the new location. While communist elements
appear to exist in respectable numbers, it could generally be noted
that the Jews living in towns occupied by SK 4b in the environs of Kramaetorskya
is estimated to be no more than 1,500. During the search for suspicious
elements, the mayor of Kremenchug, Vershovsky, was arrested and shot.
He frequently managed to carry out his duties in gross defiance of German
orders and wishes that were well known to him. In his order of September
28, 1941, he succeeded in sabotaging the handling of the Jewish problem
by having a great number of Jews baptized in order to remove them from
German control.
During the period November 24 through 30, 1941, EK
6 carried out 274 shootings. This figure includes:
19 political functionaries
29 saboteurs and looters and
226 Jews
Up to November 12, 1941, EK 6 shot 800 of a total
of 1160 mentally deficient patients of the Igrin mental hospital near
Dniepropetrovsk.
On November 23, 1941, towards 16:00 hours, partisans shot at
an army convoy, 9 km north-west of Alushta, on its way to Yalta with
guns and grenade-throwers. The Army suffered the following casualties:
eight dead and six wounded. In addition, three trucks were so badly
damaged that they had to be towed away. In reprisal 32 Communists
and 30 Jews from Bium-Lambat and Alushta were shot on November 21,
1941.
(The
Einsatzgruppen Reports by Yitzak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski and
Shmuel Spector, editors. p. 279-283)
Source: The
Nizkor Project
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