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    The Commissar Order (German: Kommissarbefehl) was an order issued by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Its official...
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  • victims out of the building. German Museum of History, document: Der Kommissarbefehl Christiane Roßberg: Arzt ohne Examen. GDR department of military, TB...
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    Fischer. On 8 September 1941, under the auspices of the Commissar Order (Kommissarbefehl), the OKW issued a decree concerning the ruthless ideological imperatives...
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    Penguin Press. ISBN 978-0-14139-012-3. Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf (1968). "The Kommissarbefehl and Mass Executions of Soviet Russian Prisoners of War". In Krausnick...
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  • at any time after 1 September 1939. The notorious Commissar Order (Kommissarbefehl), dated 6 June 1941, followed directly on the Barbarossa decree. It...
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  • territories of different administrative levels under their control. Kommissarbefehl – Direct order by Hitler issued to all German forces in the USSR at...
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  • Commander's Torpedo Course. Kommando (Kdo.) – command; detachment; detail. Kommissarbefehl – the notorious 6 June 1941 "Commissar Order" to kill all political...
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    dreitausend Exekutionen. Sachbuch: Die lange umstrittene Geschichte des 'Kommissarbefehls' von 1941 in der deutschen Wehrmacht" [More than three thousand executions...
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  • the "preventive war" that he feels Hitler was forced to wage, the Kommissarbefehl was merely something that Stalin forced on Hitler. He also claims that...
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    is borne out by the unusually small number of written copies of the Kommissarbefehl which were distributed". The paragraph in which General Müller called...
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