Criminal orders
Criminal orders is the collective name given to a series of orders, directives and decrees given during the Invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II by the Wehrmacht High Command.[1][2][3] The criminal orders went beyond established codes of conduct and led to widespread atrocities on the Eastern Front.
The orders
- Barbarossa Decree, issued 13 May 1941
- Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia, issued 19 May 1941
- Commissar Order, issued 6 June 1941
- Orders Concerning the Deployment of the Security Police and the Security Service within Military Formations, issued 28 April 1941
- Orders relating to the treatment of prisoners of war, issued June to December 1941
References
- Heer et al. 2008, pp. 17–19.
- Bartov 1986, p. 106.
- Beorn 2014, p. 52.
Bibliography
- Heer, Hannes; Manoschek, Walter; Pollak, Alexander; Wodak, Ruth (2008). The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the Wehrmacht's War of Annihilation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230013230.
- Bartov, Omer (1986). The Eastern Front, 1941–1945, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martins Press. ISBN 0312224869.
- Beorn, Waitman (2014). Marching into Darkness. London, UK: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-72550-8.
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