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

transliteration commissar often refers specifically to the political commissars of Soviet and Eastern-bloc armies or to the people's commissars (effectively...

In the military, a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a portmanteau word from Russian: политический руководитель, romanized: politicheskiy...

Wehrmacht during World War II. He is known for having drafted the criminal Commissar order in preparation for Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet...

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

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

Hitler's directives Barbarossa decree Commando Order Commissar Order German war crimes Texts of the order: Original version English version "NS-Archiv :...

implementation of the Commissar Order by the Wehrmacht, publishing his findings in 2008. It was the first complete account of the application of the order by the Wehrmacht's...

associated with the Nazis. Guderian's troops carried out the criminal Commissar Order during Barbarossa, and he was implicated in the commission of reprisals...

radicalisation of warfare on the Eastern Front. He had his staff draft both the Commissar Order (issued on 6 June 1941) and the Barbarossa Decree (signed on 13 May...

Ilgenfritz received fifteen years in prison. Adolf Hitler's directives Commissar Order George Lane (British Army officer) German commando operations Gleiwitz...

settlers. As part of this strategy, the Commissar Order was issued, which stated that all Red Army commissars were to be executed when captured. Rundstedt...

Retrieved 2012-01-30. "Commissar Order". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 27 September 2015. The Commissar Order read: "The originators...

Einsatzgruppen and he implemented the Commissar Order that directed Wehrmacht troops to summarily execute Red Army political commissars immediately upon capture....

it provided for the immediate liquidation of political commissars in the Red Army. The order was formulated in 1941 with the participation of the Army...

Command Trial, mainly regarding his implementation of the criminal Commissar Order and the mistreatment of POWs as well as civilians. He was sentenced...

Disclosure Act. The document shows that Heusinger initialled the Commissar Order and Commando Order, but, due to his cooperative attitude, no further action was...

time." Jodl signed the Commissar Order of 6 June 1941 (in which Soviet political commissars were to be shot) and the Commando Order of 28 October 1942 (in...

from Kaltenbrunner included statements that he knew nothing of the Commissar Order and that he never visited Mauthausen concentration camp, despite documentation...

armies on the Eastern Front, Strauß's 9th Army implemented the criminal Commissar Order. Adolf Strauß is mentioned by author Sven Hassel in his work of fiction...

Fomin is immediately shot under the Commissar order by a German firing squad, as a Jew, a communist and a commissar. Gavrilov orders his remaining men...

Legion and the Galicia Division. Hitler's notorious Commissar Order called for Soviet political commissars, who were responsible for ensuring that Red Army...

war and enemy belligerents. Crimes against humanity by participating or ordering the murder, torture, deportation, hostage-taking, etc. of civilians . Participating...

and defenseless men, women, and children." Commissar Order, an order stating that Soviet political commissars were to be shot on the battlefield. List of...

work of a military nature; ordering the execution of Soviet political commissars in compliance with Hitler's Commissar Order; and issuing scorched earth...

Ordnungspolizei (German: [ˈɔʁdnʊŋspoliˌtsaɪ]), abbreviated Orpo, meaning "Order Police", were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945...

He has conducted pioneering research into the implementation of the Commissar Order by combat formations of the Wehrmacht and the attitudes of German soldiers...

they did not. Before May 1942, when the Commissar Order was rescinded, an estimated 4,000 to 10,000 commissars were shot; such killings are documented...

The Order Police battalions were militarised formations of the German Ordnungspolizei (Order Police, "Orpo") during the Nazi era. In World War II, they...

surrender. Commissar Order, the order from Hitler to Wehrmacht troops before the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 to shoot Commissars immediately...