Jäger Report
Death count of a Nazi death squad, 1941
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::summary Death count of a Nazi death squad, 1941 ::
::data[format=table] | Karl Jäger Report | | Entries || Killed | |---|---| | [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B0716-0005-007, Oberstes Gericht, Globke-Prozess, Beweisstück.jpg|200px]] | | | June | 1 entry | | July | 20 entries | | August | 33 entries | | September | 38 entries | | October | 12 entries | | November | 10 entries | ::
The Jäger Report, also Jaeger Report (full title: Complete tabulation of executions carried out in the Einsatzkommando 3 zone up to December 1, 1941) was written on 1 December 1941 by Karl Jäger, commander of Einsatzkommando 3 (EK 3), a death squad of Einsatzgruppe A attached to Army Group North in the Operation Barbarossa. It is the most detailed and precise surviving chronicle of the activities of one individual Einsatzkommando, and a key record documenting the Holocaust in Lithuania as well as in Latvia and Belarus.
Description
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The Jäger Report is a tally sheet of actions by Einsatzkommando 3, including the Rollkommando Hamann killing squad. The report keeps an almost daily running total of the murders of 137,346 people, the vast majority Jews, from 2 July 1941 to 25 November 1941. The report documents date and place of the massacres, number of victims and their breakdown into categories (Jews, communists, criminals, etc.). In total, there were 112 executions in 71 different locations in Lithuania, Latvia, and Belarus. The report concluded that Lithuania was now free of Jews except for about 34,500 Jews concentrated in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos. However, Jäger Report did not tally all Jewish deaths in Lithuania as it did not include executions by Einsatzkommando 2 in Šiauliai area (approx. 46,000 people), in some border areas (for example, in Šakiai on September 13, Kudirkos Naumiestis on September 19, Kretinga in July–August, Gargždai on June 24, 1941), or even in Vilnius (for example, the report is missing the October 1 (Yom Kippur) massacre of some 4,000 Jews).
Jäger concluded his report with the following:
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| I can confirm today that the goal of solving the Jewish problem for Lithuania has been achieved by EK. 3. In Lithuania, there are no more Jews, except for the Arbeitsjuden ["labor Jews"] incl. their families. | |
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The nine-page report was prepared in five copies, but only one survives, kept by the Special Archive of the in Moscow. The copy was discovered in 1944 when the Red Army reoccupied Lithuania, but it was not made known to scholars or the judiciary evaluating Nazi war crimes. Only in 1963, during the in absentia trial of Hans Globke in East Germany and four years after Jäger's suicide, did the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclose the document to the German Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes. The document was first published in a Lithuanian collection of documents Masinės žudynės Lietuvoje in 1965 and in the Western press by in 1972 as a facsimile.
Report tabulation
::data[format=table] | Date | Location | JewsIf breakdown of Jews not specified, men, women and children are included in a single column | OthersIncludes mostly communists and mentally ill | TotalTotal is given per original report. Errors in addition are noted with "(Error in math)". | Notes | Men | Women | Children | Totals || 57,338 || 48,592 || 29,461 || 2,058 || 137,346 || | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 4 Jul 1941 | | 416 | 47 | | | 463 | By "Lithuanian partisans", i.e. TDA | | | | 6 Jul | Kaunas Seventh Fort | 2,514 | | | | 2,514 | By TDA | | | | 7 Jul | Marijampolė | 32 | | | | 32 | By Rollkommando Hamann (from here on) | | | | 8 Jul | Marijampolė | 14 | | | 5 | 19 | | | | | 8 Jul | Girkalnis | | | | 6 | 6 | Communist officials | | | | 9 Jul | Vandžiogala | 32 | 2 | | 4 | 38 | | | | | 9 Jul | Kaunas Seventh Fort | 21 | 3 | | | 24 | | | | | 14 Jul | Marijampolė | 21 | | | 10 | 31 | | | | | 17 Jul | Babtai | 6 | | | 2 | 8 | All communists | | | | 18 Jul | Marijampolė | 39 | 14 | | | 53 | | | | | 19 Jul | Kaunas Seventh Fort | 17 | 2 | | 7 | 26 | | | | | 21 Jul | Panevėžys | 59 | 11 | | 33 | 103 | | | | | 22 Jul | Panevėžys | 1 | | | | 1 | | | | | 23 Jul | Kėdainiai | 83 | 12 | | 30 | 125 | | | | | 25 Jul | Marijampolė | 90 | 13 | | | 103 | | | | | 28 Jul | Panevėžys | 234 | 15 | | 39 | 288 | | | | | 29 Jul | Raseiniai | 254 | | | 3 | 257 | | | | | 30 Jul | Ariogala | 27 | | | 11 | 38 | | | | | 31 Jul | Utena | 235 | 16 | | 5 | 256 | | | | | 31 Jul | Vandžiogala | 13 | | | 2 | 15 | | | | | 1 Aug | Ukmergė | 254 | 42 | | 4 | 300 | | | | | 2 Aug | Kaunas Fourth Fort | 171 | 34 | | 4 | 209 | | | | | 4 Aug | Panevėžys | 362 | 41 | | 19 | 422 | | | | | 5 Aug | Raseiniai | 213 | 66 | | | 279 | | | | | 7 Aug | Utena | 483 | 87 | | 1 | 571 | | | | | 8 Aug | Ukmergė | 620 | 82 | | | 702 | | | | | 9 Aug | Kaunas Fourth Fort | 484 | 50 | | | 534 | | | | | 11 Aug | Panevėžys | 450 | 48 | | 2 | 500 | | | | | 13 Aug | Alytus | 617 | 100 | | 1 | 719 | (Error in math) | | | | 14 Aug | Jonava | 497 | 55 | | | 552 | | | | | 15–16 Aug | Rokiškis | 3,200 | 7 | 3,207 | | | | | | | 9–16 Aug | Raseiniai | | 294 | 4 | | 298 | | | | | | Rokiškis | 493 | | | 488 | 981 | All active communists | | | | 18 Aug | Kaunas Fourth Fort | 1,409 | 402 | | 1 | 1,812 | Including 711 Jewish intellectuals from Ghetto in reprisal for sabotage action | | | | 19 Aug | Ukmergė | 298 | 255 | 88 | 2 | 645 | (Error in math) | | | | 22 Aug | Daugavpils | 1 | 1 | | 20 | 21 | Prison inspection (Error in math) | | | | 22 Aug | Aglona | | | | 544 | 544 | Mentally ill (269 men, 227 women, and 48 children). Located in Latvia. | | | | 23 Aug | Panevėžys | 1,312 | 4,602 | 1,609 | | 7,523 | | | | | 18–22 Aug | Raseiniai environs | 466 | 440 | 1,020 | | 1,926 | | | | | 25 Aug | Obeliai | 112 | 627 | 421 | | 1,160 | | | | | 25–26 Aug | Šeduva | 230 | 275 | 159 | | 664 | | | | | 26 Aug | Zarasai | 767 | 1,113 | 687 | 2 | 2,569 | | | | | 28 Aug | Pasvalys | 402 | 738 | 209 | | 1,349 | | | | | 26 Aug | Kaišiadorys | 1,911 | | 1,911 | Unspecified | | | | | | 27 Aug | Prienai | 1,078 | | 1,078 | Unspecified | | | | | | 27 Aug | Dagda and Krāslava | 212 | | | 4 | 216 | Located in Latvia | | | | 27 Aug | Joniškis | 47 | 165 | 143 | | 355 | | | | | 28 Aug | Vilkija | 76 | 192 | 134 | | 402 | | | | | 28 Aug | Kėdainiai | 710 | 767 | 599 | | 2,076 | | | | | 29 Aug | Rumšiškės and Žiežmariai | 20 | 567 | 197 | | 784 | | | | | 29 Aug | Utena and Molėtai | 582 | 1,731 | 1,469 | | 3,782 | | | | | 13-31 Aug | Alytus and environs | 233 | | | | 233 | | | | | 1 Sep | Marijampolė | 1,763 | 1,812 | 1,404 | 111 | 5,090 | Others include 109 mentally ill | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Darsūniškis | 10 | 69 | 20 | | 99 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Garliava | 73 | 113 | 61 | | 247 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Jonava | 112 | 1,200 | 244 | | 1,556 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Petrasiunai | 30 | 72 | 23 | | 125 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Jieznas | 26 | 72 | 46 | | 144 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Ariogala | 207 | 260 | 195 | | 662 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Josvainiai | 86 | 110 | 86 | | 282 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Babtai | 20 | 41 | 22 | | 83 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Vandžiogala | 42 | 113 | 97 | | 252 | | | | | 28 Aug – 2 Sep | Krakės | 448 | 476 | 201 | | 1,125 | | | | | 4 Sep | Pravieniškės | 247 | 6 | | | 253 | | | | | 4 Sep | Čekiškė | 22 | 64 | 60 | | 146 | | | | | 4 Sep | Seredžius | 6 | 61 | 126 | | 193 | | | | | 4 Sep | Veliuona | 2 | 71 | 86 | | 159 | | | | | 4 Sep | Zapyškis | 47 | 118 | 13 | | 178 | | | | | 5 Sep | Ukmergė | 1,123 | 1,849 | 1,737 | | 4,709 | | | | | 25 Aug – 6 Sep | Raseiniai | 16 | 412 | 415 | | 843 | | | | | 25 Aug – 6 Sep | Jurbarkas | 412 | | 412 | | | | | | | 9 Sep | Alytus | 287 | 640 | 352 | | 1,279 | | | | | 9 Sep | Butrimonys | 67 | 370 | 303 | | 740 | | | | | 10 Sep | Merkinė | 223 | 355 | 276 | | 854 | | | | | 10 Sep | Varėna | 541 | 141 | 149 | | 831 | | | | | 11 Sep | Leipalingis | 60 | 70 | 25 | | 155 | | | | | 11 Sep | Seirijai | 229 | 384 | 340 | | 953 | | | | | 12 Sep | Simnas | 68 | 197 | 149 | | 414 | | | | | 11–12 Sep | Užusaliai | | | | 43 | 43 | Reprisal against locals helping Russian partisans | | | | 26 Sep | Kaunas Fourth Fort | 412 | 615 | 581 | | 1,608 | Sick and suspected epidemic cases | | | | 2 Oct | Žagarė | 633 | 1,107 | 496 | | 2,236 | As Jews were led away, they mutinied but it was quickly subdued | | | | 4 Oct | Kaunas Ninth Fort | 315 | 712 | 818 | | 1,845 | Reprisal after a German police officer shot in ghetto | | | | 29 Oct | Kaunas Ninth Fort | 2,007 | 2,920 | 4,273 | | 9,200 | "Mopping up ghetto of superfluous Jews" (see Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941) | | | | 3 Nov | Lazdijai | 485 | 511 | 539 | | 1,535 | | | | | 15 Nov | Vilkaviškis | 36 | 48 | 31 | | 115 | | | | | 25 Nov | Kaunas Ninth Fort | 1,159 | 1,600 | 175 | | 2,934 | Jews from Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main (see Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941) | | | | 29 Nov | Kaunas Ninth Fort | 693 | 1,155 | 152 | | 2,000 | Jews from Vienna and Breslau | | | | 29 Nov | Kaunas Ninth Fort | 17 | 1 | | 17 | 34 | (Error in math) | | | | 13 Jul – 21 Aug | Daugavpils | 9,012 | 573 | 9,585 | EK 3 detachment in Daugavpils, Latvia | | | | | | 12 Aug – 1 Sep | Vilnius | 425 | 19 | | 17 | 461 | EK 3 detachment in VilniusEK 3 took over from EK 9 in Vilnius (from here on) | | | | 2 Sep | Vilnius | 864 | 2,019 | 817 | | 3,700 | Reprisal for shooting at German soldiers | | | | 12 Sep | Vilnius | 993 | 1,670 | 771 | | 3,334 | (Error in math) | | | | 17 Sep | Vilnius | 337 | 687 | 247 | 4 | 1,271 | (Error in math) | | | | 20 Sep | Nemenčinė | 128 | 176 | 99 | | 403 | | | | | 22 Sep | Naujoji Vilnia | 468 | 495 | 196 | | 1,159 | | | | | 24 Sep | Riešė | 512 | 744 | 511 | | 1,767 | | | | | 25 Sep | Jašiūnai | 215 | 229 | 131 | | 575 | | | | | 27 Sep | Eišiškės | 989 | 1,636 | 821 | | 3,446 | | | | | 30 Sep | Trakai | 366 | 483 | 597 | | 1,446 | | | | | 4 Oct | Vilnius | 432 | 1,115 | 436 | | 1,983 | | | | | 6 Oct | Semeliškės | 213 | 359 | 390 | | 962 | | | | | 9 Oct | Švenčionys | 1,169 | 1,840 | 717 | | 3,726 | | | | | 16 Oct | Vilnius | 382 | 507 | 257 | | 1,146 | | | | | 21 Oct | Vilnius | 718 | 1,063 | 586 | | 2,367 | | | | | 25 Oct | Vilnius | | 1,766 | 812 | | 2,578 | | | | | 27 Oct | Vilnius | 946 | 184 | 73 | | 1,203 | | | | | 30 Oct | Vilnius | 382 | 789 | 362 | | 1,533 | | | | | 6 Nov | Vilnius | 340 | 749 | 252 | | 1,341 | | | | | 19 Nov | Vilnius | 76 | 77 | 18 | | 171 | | | | | 19 Nov | Vilnius | | | | 14 | 14 | POWs and Poles | | | | 20 Nov | Vilnius | | | | 3 | 3 | POWs | | | | 25 Nov | Vilnius | 9 | 46 | 8 | 1 | 64 | | | | | 28 Sep – 17 Oct | Bobr (Belarus)|be|Гарадскі пасёлак Бобр|lt=Bobr}}, Uzda | 620 | 1,285 | 1,126 | 19 | 3,050 | EK 3 detachment in Minsk, Belarus | | | | | | 4,000 | | | | 4,000 | Prior to EK 3 taking over (see: Kaunas pogrom) | | | | Notes: | | | | | | | | | | ::
References
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