Jäger Report
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The Jäger Report was written by Karl Jäger, commander of Einsatzkommando 3, a unit of Einsatzgruppen A which was attached to Army Group North during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Einsatzkommando refers to a subgroup of the four Einsatzgruppen, killing units that were responsible for carrying out mass executions behind the German lines.
The most precise surviving chronicle of the activities of one individual Einsatzkommando, the Jäger Report is a tally sheet of actions by Einsatzkommando 3, which keeps an almost daily running total of the liquidations of 136,421 Jews (46,403 men 55,556 women and 34,464 children), 1,064 Communists, 653 mentally disabled, and 134 others from 2 July 1941 to 1 December 1941.
Sample types of entries:
The Commander of
the security police and
the SD
Einsatzkommando 3
Kauen [Kaunas],
1 December 1941
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|Secret Reich Business! | 5 copies
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Complete list of executions carried out in the EK 3 area
up to 1 December 1941
July:
On my instructions and orders the following executions were conducted by Lithuanian partisans:
4.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII 416 Jews, 47 Jewesses 463 6.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII Jews 2,514
Total carried forward 3,384
August:
(resistance, NKVD)
1.8.41 Ukmerge 254 Jews, 42 Jewesses, 1 Pol.
Comm., 2 Lith. NKVD agents, 1
mayor of Jonava who gave order
to set fire to Jonava 300
(US Citizen-Jewish)
2.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 170 Jews, 1 US Jewess, 33 Jewesses,
4 Lith. Comm. 209
(communists)
6-14.8.41 Rokiskis 493 Jews, 432 Russians, 56 Lithuanians
(all active communists) 981
(reprisals on "intellectuals")
18.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 689 Jews, 402 Jewesses, 1 Pole (f.),
711 Jewish intellectuals from Ghetto
in reprisal for sabotage action 1,812
Total carried forward 16,152
September:
(mentally sick, German woman married to Jew)
1.9.41 Mariampole 1,763 Jews, 1,812 Jewesses, 1,404
Jewish children, 109 mentally sick,
1 German subject (f.), married to a
Jew, 1 Russian (f.) 5,090
Total carried over 47,814
(small Shtetl-Hamlets )
4.9.41 Pravenischkis 247 Jews, 6 Jewesses 253
Cekiske 22 Jews, 64 Jewesses, 60
Jewish children 146
Seredsius 6 Jews, 61 Jewesses, 126
Jewish children 193
Velinona 2 Jews, 71 Jewesses, 86
Jewish children 159
Zapiskis 47 Jews, 118 Jewesses, 13
Jewish children 178
(Mopping up)
8-6.9.41 Mopping up in: 16 Jews, 412 Jewesses, 415
Rasainiai Jewish children 843
Georgenburg all Jews, all Jewesses, all
Jewish children 412
(feeding partisans)
11-12.9.41 Uzusalis Reprisal against inhabitants who
fed Russ. partisans; some in
possession of weapons 43
Total carried over 66,159
October:
(rebelling against murder, Collaborators wounded)
2.10.41 Zagare 633 Jews, 1,107 Jewesses, 496
Jewish children (as these Jews were
being led away a mutiny rose, which
was however immediately put down;
150 Jews were shot immediately; 7
partisans wounded) 2,236
(superfluous Jews in ghetto)
29.10.41 Kauen-F.IX 2,007 Jews, 2,920 Jewesses, 4,273
Jewish children (mopping up ghetto
of superfluous Jews) 9,200
November
(German Jews who fled east)
25.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 1,159 Jews, 1,600 Jewesses, 175
Jewish children (resettlers from
Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am main) 2,934
(rules broken, German convert, Kalinin group)
29.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 17 Jews, 1 Jewess, for contravention
of ghetto law, 1 Reich's German who
converted to the Jewish faith and
attended rabbinical school, then 15
terrorists from the Kalinin group 34
(detachment in Dunanberg)
EK 3 detachment in Dunanberg
in the period 13.7-21.8.41: 9,012 Jews, Jewesses and Jewish
children, 573 active Comm. 9,585
(detachment in Vilna)
EK 3 detachment in Wilna:
12.8-1.9.41 City of Wilna 425 Jews, 19 Jewesses, 8 Comm. (m.),
9 Comm. (f.) 461
2.9.41 City of Wilna 864 Jews, 2,019 Jewesses, 817
Jewish children (sonderaktion because
German soldiers shot at by Jews) 3,700
Total carried forward 99,084
EK 3 detachment in Minsk from 28.9-17.10.41:
Pleschnitza 620 Jews, 1,285 Jewesses,
Bischolin 1,126 Jewish children and 19
Scak Comm.
Bober
Uzda 3,050
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133,346
Prior to EK 3 taking over security police duties, Jews liquidated
by pogroms and executions (including partisans) 4,000
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Total 137,346
Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish problem for Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3. In Lithuania there are no more Jews, apart from Jewish workers and their families.
The distance between from the assembly point to the graves was on average 4 to 5 Km.
I consider the Jewish action more or less terminated as far as Einsatzkommando 3 is concerned. Those working Jews and Jewesses still available are needed urgently and I can envisage that after the winter this workforce will be required even more urgently. I am of the view that the sterilization programme of the male worker Jews should be started immediately so that reproduction is prevented. If despite sterilization a Jewess becomes pregnant she will be liquidated. (signed) Jager SS-Standartenfuhrer
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