Jäger Report

Karl Jäger Report MonthGrouped by the ending date of the massacre Entries Killed June 1 entry 4,000 July 20 entries 4,400 August 33 entries 47,906 September 38 entries 40,997 October 12 entries 31,829 November 10 entries 8,211

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

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. On 17 occasions, daily casualties exceeded 2,000 people. On 9 February 1942, in a handwritten note for Franz Walter Stahlecker, Jäger updated the totals to 138,272 people: 136,421 Jews (46,403 men, 55,556 women and 34,464 children), 1,064 communists, 653 mentally disabled, and 134 others. 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:

German original English translationIch kann heute feststellen, dass das Ziel, das Judenproblem für Litauen zu lösen, vom EK. 3 erreicht worden ist. In Litauen gibt es keine Juden mehr, ausser den Arbeitsjuden incl. ihrer Familien.

Das sind in Schaulen ca. 4 500 in Kauen " 15 000 in Wilna " 15 000.

Diese Arbeitsjuden incl. ihrer Familien wollte ich ebenfalls umlegen, was mir jedoch scharfe Kampfansage der Zivilverwaltung (dem Reichskommissar) und der Wehrmacht eintrug und das Verbot auslöste: Diese Juden und ihre Familien dürfen nicht erschossen werden!

Das Ziel, Litauen judenfrei zu machen, konnte nur erreicht werden durch die Aufstellung eines Rollkommandos mit ausgesuchten Männern unter der Führung des SS-Obersturmführers Hamann, der sich meine Ziele voll und ganz aneignete und es verstand, die Zusammenarbeit mit den litauischen Partisanen und den zuständigen zivilen Stellen zu gewährleisten. ...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.

These are in Schaulen ca. 4 500 in Kauen " 15 000 in Wilna " 15 000.

I also wanted to put down these Arbeitsjuden ["labor Jews"] incl. their families, but this provoked a sharp conflict with the civil administration (the Reichskommissar) and the Wehrmacht, and resulted in the prohibition: these Jews and their families must not be shot!

The goal to make Lithuania judenfrei ["Jew-free"] could only be achieved through the establishment of a Rollkommando ["rolling detachment"] with selected men under the leadership of SS-Obersturmführer Hamann, who fully embraced my objectives and understood how to ensure cooperation with the Lithuanian partisans and the relevant civil authorities. ...

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 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 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 Plyeshchanitsy, Bischolin,As spelled in the original report Šack, , 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) Totals 57,338 48,592 29,461 2,058 137,346 Notes:

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