Holocaust: Operational Situation Report USSR #8

Einsatzgruppen

Operational Situation Report USSR No. 8

The Chief of the Security Police and the SD

Berlin,
June 30, 1941

25 copies
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(25th copy)

[stamped] Secret Affair of the Reich

OPERATIONAL SITUATION REPORT USSR No. 8

: EK 1b

On June 28 Vorkommando (1) has moved into Kaunas. It has started its activity, occupying the former trade union building, the NKVD Building, as well as two other houses. During the night, exchange of heavy fire between Lithuanian insurgents, Jews, and irregulars. Very difficult to secure the prisons, which are totally overcrowded. During the last 3 days Lithuanian partisan groups have already killed several thousand Jews.
(The Einsatzgruppen Reports by Yitzak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski and Shmuel Spector, editors. p. 1)
(1) An advance unit

For additional information about the mobile killing units, and what the Allies had discovered about their operations, see Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew by Richard Breitman, and Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning

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