Company Nuremberg

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The company Nuremberg was in World War II, the code name of military action of the Germans, directed against partisans in the Soviet Union .

backgrounds

Some time after the start of the "Operation Barbarossa", the war against the Soviet Union , partisan groups formed in the German-occupied areas . In 1942, National Socialist leaders decided to take action against the partisans in Belarus and Russia and worked out appropriate plans. Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler signed the document on August 7, 1942 .

In the occupied territories of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in particular , “fighting partisans” (also known as “fighting gangs”) often only served as a pretext for the shooting of Jews and non-Jewish civilians (see General Plan East and Program Heinrich ).

Duration, location and units involved

The Nuremberg company took place from November 18, 1942 to November 27, 1942 in the forest and swamp area around Glebokie in the General Commissariat of Belarus . The leadership took over the combat group von Gottberg .

In particular, the following units were used:

Results and consequences

By November 26, 1942, the von Gottberg combat group burned down several villages, killing 789 partisans and 353 “suspects”, 1826 Jews and 7 “ gypsies ”. The 1st SS Infantry Brigade was particularly brutal: the inhabitants of several villages were “ treated specially ”, ie killed, including women and children. This even led to the fact that the commander of the rear area of Army Group Center worried because of the methods used that this could create a “stove for new gang areas”.

At the same time, ghetto liquidations took place in the operational area of ​​the von Gottberg combat group. 1,300 Jews from the Dunilowitschi ghetto fell victim to a command from the branch of the commander of the security police and SD Vilejka on November 21, 1942. On November 23, 1942, between 2,500 and 5,000 Jews were killed in Pastawy . The dissolution of the Hermanowitschi ghetto, which ended with the killing of the inmates, also took place in the course of the Nuremberg concern.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang Curilla: The German Ordnungspolizei and the Holocaust in the Baltic States and in Belarus 1941-1944. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag Paderborn, 2nd edition 2006, p. 717.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Curilla: The German Ordnungspolizei and the Holocaust in the Baltic States and in Belarus 1941–1944, p. 718.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Curilla: The German Ordnungspolizei and the Holocaust in the Baltic States and in Belarus 1941–1944, p. 719.

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