Command No. 270
The command of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR from August 16, 1941 № 270 ( "cowards and deserters must be destroyed." Russian Об ответственности военнослужащих за сдачу в плен и оставление врагу оружия . ) Was a stop command , the surrender of officers in German-Soviet war punished with the death penalty . The order was consolidated by Order No. 227 .
According to orders, officers were threatened with withdrawal and subsequent imprisonment with immediate shooting and arrest of their families. Survivors from units of the Red Army who went into captivity were often deported after the end of the war and were not infrequently murdered. Her family members were threatened with the cancellation of all government aid. In the Soviet and Russian historiography of the "Great Patriotic War" this order is often not mentioned.
"The commanders and political cadres who ... give themselves prisoner to the enemy are to be seen as malicious deserters whose families are to be arrested as families of oath-breaking and traitorous deserters."
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- Original text (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ deutschlandfunk.de: 75 years ago - Stalin takes over command of the Red Army
- ↑ The order no. 270 in the Russian original on hrono.ru
- ↑ Keyword command 270 ( memo of December 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on internet-school.ru