Korück
The commander of the rear army area , often simply abbreviated as Korück , was an office in the army high command of the Wehrmacht . In military parlance, "Korück" did not only stand for the relevant department, but usually also for the entire rear army area that was subordinate to this department, often also for the entire troop association of this department.
Each rear army area was identified by a number. For example, after the invasion of Russia, "Korück 582" extended in the hinterland of the 9th Army (AOK 9) at the time of its greatest expansion to about 27,000 square kilometers with more than 1,500 villages around Vyasma . The troop units in Korück 582 had a personnel strength of 1700 men.
The Korück was responsible for securing the supply routes and the "pacification" of the occupied area. For this purpose a him were mostly Defense Division , Landesschutzen - battalions , field and local commandants and military police units and units of the Secret Field Police assumed. The prisoner-of-war camps (Dulag) close to the front were usually subordinated to the Korücks.
The tasks of the Korücks changed with the war. During the retreat of the Wehrmacht, for example, Korück 594 in Italy had the task of “appointing combat command posts in all major towns and street command posts on all main routes of retreat. The combat commanderships have sole responsibility for the defense of the places and the regulated implementation of spaces and retreat movements and have dictatorial powers for this purpose. You have a duty to use all means ruthlessly against all persons in order to accomplish their task. Your general mission is: Defense of the locality in question to the end, exhaustion of all possibilities for this, also deploying the last German fighter, preventing panics from occurring. "
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- ↑ Hannes Heer, Klaus Neumann (ed.): War of destruction. Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930908-04-2 , p. 235