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...

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...

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

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

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

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

of the "preventive war" that he felt Hitler was forced to wage, the Kommissarbefehl was merely something that Stalin forced on Hitler. He also claimed...

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

Römer's book on the Commissar Order, published in 2008 in German as Der Kommissarbefehl. Wehrmacht und NS-Verbrechen an der Ostfront 1941/42 (The Commissar...

000 civilians suspected of a wide range of punishable actions (the Kommissarbefehl was also implemented) and released unharmed most of the remaining 4...