The Commissar Order (German: Kommissarbefehl) was an order issued by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Its official...

victims out of the building. German Museum of History, document: Der Kommissarbefehl Christiane Roßberg: Arzt ohne Examen. GDR department of military, TB...

Fischer. On 8 September 1941, under the auspices of the Commissar Order (Kommissarbefehl), the OKW issued a decree concerning the ruthless ideological imperatives...

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...

at any time after 1 September 1939. The notorious Commissar Order (Kommissarbefehl), dated 6 June 1941, followed directly on the Barbarossa decree. It...

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...

dreitausend Exekutionen. Sachbuch: Die lange umstrittene Geschichte des 'Kommissarbefehls' von 1941 in der deutschen Wehrmacht" [More than three thousand executions...

Commander's Torpedo Course. Kommando (Kdo.) – command; detachment; detail. Kommissarbefehl – the notorious 6 June 1941 "Commissar Order" to kill all political...

territories of different administrative levels under their control. Kommissarbefehl – Direct order by Hitler issued to all German forces in the USSR at...

is borne out by the unusually small number of written copies of the Kommissarbefehl which were distributed". The paragraph in which General Müller called...