Karl Jäger Report
Month[n 1]EntriesKilled
June1 entry4,000
July20 entries4,400
August33 entries47,906
September38 entries40,997
October12 entries31,829
November10 entries8,211

The Jäger Report, also Jaeger Report (full title: Complete tabulation of executions carried out in the Einsatzkommando 3 zone up to December 1, 1941)[1] 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.[2]

Description

Map Stahlecker attached to his report to Reinhard Heydrich using the execution tally from the updated Jäger's report

The Jäger Report is a tally sheet of actions by Einsatzkommando 3, including the Rollkommando Hamann killing squad.[1] 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.[3] On 17 occasions, daily casualties exceeded 2,000 people.[3] 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.[4] The report concluded that Lithuania was now free of Jews except for about 34,500 Jews concentrated in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos.[2] 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).[5][6]

Jäger concluded his report with the following:

German original English translation

Ich 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 establish today that the goal to solve the Jewish problem for Lithuania has been reached by EK. 3. There are no Jews anymore in Lithuania, with the exception of the Arbeitsjuden ["labor Jews"] and their families.


These number
in Šiauliai ca. 4 500
in Kaunas ..." 15 000
in Vilnius...." 15 000.

These Arbeitsjuden and their families I also wanted to off, which earned me sharp criticism from the civil administration (the Reichskommissar) and the Wehrmacht, and led to the prohibition: "these Jews and their families cannot be shot!" The goal of making Lithuania judenfrei could only be achieved by setting up a Rollkomando with selected men under the leadership of SS-Obersturmführer Hamann, who fully embraced my goals and knew how to guarantee collaboration with the Lithuanian partisans and the competent civil authorities.
...

The nine-page report was prepared in five copies,[1] but only one survives, kept by the Special Archive of the Russian State Military Archive in Moscow.[7] 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.[8] Only in 1963, during the in absentia trial of Hans Globke in East Germany[9] 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.[8] The document was first published in a Lithuanian collection of documents Masinės žudynės Lietuvoje in 1965[10] and in the Western press by Adalbert Rückerl in 1972 as a facsimile.[8]

Report tabulation

Date[11] Location Jews[n 2] Others[n 3] Total[n 4] Notes
MenWomenChildren
4 Jul 1941Kaunas Seventh Fort41647463By "Lithuanian partisans", i.e. TDA
6 JulKaunas Seventh Fort2,5142,514By TDA
7 JulMarijampolė3232By Rollkommando Hamann (from here on)
8 JulMarijampolė14519
8 JulGirkalnis66Communist officials
9 JulVandžiogala322438
9 JulKaunas Seventh Fort21324
14 JulMarijampolė211031
17 JulBabtai628All communists
18 JulMarijampolė391453
19 JulKaunas Seventh Fort172726
21 JulPanevėžys591133103
22 JulPanevėžys11
23 JulKėdainiai831230125
25 JulMarijampolė9013103
28 JulPanevėžys2341539288
29 JulRaseiniai2543257
30 JulAriogala271138
31 JulUtena235165256
31 JulVandžiogala13215
1 AugUkmergė254424300
2 AugKaunas Fourth Fort171344209
4 AugPanevėžys3624119422
5 AugRaseiniai21366279
7 AugUtena483871571
8 AugUkmergė62082702
9 AugKaunas Fourth Fort48450534
11 AugPanevėžys450482500
13 AugAlytus6171001719(Error in math)
14 AugJonava49755552
15–16 AugRokiškis3,20073,207
9–16 AugRaseiniai2944298
27 Jun – 14 AugRokiškis493488981All active communists
18 AugKaunas Fourth Fort1,40940211,812Including 711 Jewish intellectuals from Ghetto in reprisal for sabotage action
19 AugUkmergė298255882645(Error in math)
22 AugDaugavpils112021Prison inspection (Error in math)
22 AugAglona544544Mentally ill (269 men, 227 women, and 48 children). Located in Latvia.
23 AugPanevėžys1,3124,6021,6097,523
18–22 AugRaseiniai environs4664401,0201,926
25 AugObeliai1126274211,160
25–26 AugŠeduva230275159664
26 AugZarasai7671,11368722,569
28 AugPasvalys4027382091,349
26 AugKaišiadorys1,9111,911Unspecified
27 AugPrienai1,0781,078Unspecified
27 AugDagda and Krāslava2124216Located in Latvia
27 AugJoniškis47165143355
28 AugVilkija76192134402
28 AugKėdainiai7107675992,076
29 AugRumšiškės and Žiežmariai20567197784
29 AugUtena and Molėtai5821,7311,4693,782
13-31 AugAlytus and environs233233
1 SepMarijampolė1,7631,8121,4041115,090Others include 109 mentally ill
28 Aug – 2 SepDarsūniškis10692099
28 Aug – 2 SepGarliava7311361247
28 Aug – 2 SepJonava1121,2002441,556
28 Aug – 2 SepPetrasiunai307223125
28 Aug – 2 SepJieznas267246144
28 Aug – 2 SepAriogala207260195662
28 Aug – 2 SepJosvainiai8611086282
28 Aug – 2 SepBabtai20412283
28 Aug – 2 SepVandžiogala4211397252
28 Aug – 2 SepKrakės4484762011,125
4 SepPravieniškės2476253
4 SepČekiškė226460146
4 SepSeredžius661126193
4 SepVeliuona27186159
4 SepZapyškis4711813178
5 SepUkmergė1,1231,8491,7374,709
25 Aug – 6 SepRaseiniai16412415843
25 Aug – 6 SepJurbarkas412412
9 SepAlytus2876403521,279
9 SepButrimonys67370303740
10 SepMerkinė223355276854
10 SepVarėna541141149831
11 SepLeipalingis607025155
11 SepSeirijai229384340953
12 SepSimnas68197149414
11–12 SepUžusaliai4343Reprisal against locals helping Russian partisans
26 SepKaunas Fourth Fort4126155811,608Sick and suspected epidemic cases
2 OctŽagarė6331,1074962,236As Jews were led away, they mutinied but it was quickly subdued
4 OctKaunas Ninth Fort3157128181,845Reprisal after a German police officer shot in ghetto
29 OctKaunas Ninth Fort2,0072,9204,2739,200"Mopping up ghetto of superfluous Jews" (see Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941)
3 NovLazdijai4855115391,535
15 NovVilkaviškis364831115
25 NovKaunas Ninth Fort1,1591,6001752,934Jews from Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main (see Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941)
29 NovKaunas Ninth Fort6931,1551522,000Jews from Vienna and Breslau
29 NovKaunas Ninth Fort1711734(Error in math)
13 Jul – 21 AugDaugavpils9,0125739,585EK 3 detachment in Daugavpils, Latvia
12 Aug – 1 SepVilnius4251917461EK 3 detachment in Vilnius[n 5] (from here on)
2 SepVilnius8642,0198173,700Reprisal for shooting at German soldiers
12 SepVilnius9931,6707713,334(Error in math)
17 SepVilnius33768724741,271(Error in math)
20 SepNemenčinė12817699403
22 SepNaujoji Vilnia4684951961,159
24 SepRiešė5127445111,767
25 SepJašiūnai215229131575
27 SepEišiškės9891,6368213,446
30 SepTrakai3664835971,446
4 OctVilnius4321,1154361,983
6 OctSemeliškės213359390962
9 OctŠvenčionys1,1691,8407173,726
16 OctVilnius3825072571,146
21 OctVilnius7181,0635862,367
25 OctVilnius1,7668122,578
27 OctVilnius946184731,203
30 OctVilnius3827893621,533
6 NovVilnius3407492521,341
19 NovVilnius767718171
19 NovVilnius1414POWs and Poles
20 NovVilnius33POWs
25 NovVilnius9468164
28 Sep – 17 OctPlieščanicy, Bischolin,[n 6]
Šack, Bobr, Uzda		6201,2851,126193,050EK 3 detachment in Minsk, Belarus
4,0004,000Prior to EK 3 taking over (see: Kaunas pogrom)
Totals57,33848,59229,4612,058137,346 
Notes:
  1. ↑ Grouped by the ending date of the massacre
  2. ↑ If breakdown of Jews not specified, men, women and children are included in a single column
  3. ↑ Includes mostly communists and mentally ill
  4. ↑ Total is given per original report. Errors in addition are noted with "(Error in math)".
  5. ↑ EK 3 took over from EK 9 in Vilnius
  6. ↑ As spelled in the original report

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Karl Jäger, Commander of the Security Police and the SD, Einsatzkommando 3 (December 1, 1941). "The Jaeger Report: A Chronicle of Nazi Mass Murder". English Translation of the Report Along with Scanned Images of the Original. Kauen: The Holocaust History Project. webpages 1–9 with transcriptions of photostat facsimiles.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 Headland, Ronald (1992). Messages of Murder: A Study of the Reports of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the Security Service, 1941-1943. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 152. ISBN 9780838634189.
  3. 1 2 Gaunt, David (2010). "Reichskommissariat Ostland". In Friedman, Jonathan C. (ed.). The Routledge History of the Holocaust. Routledge. pp. 210–220. ISBN 9781136870590.
  4. ↑ Wette, Wolfram (2011). Karl Jäger. Mörder der litauischen Juden (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. p. 147. ISBN 9783596190645. as cited by Muehlenkamp, Roberto (November 30, 2012). "The Jäger Report (8)". Holocaust Controversies. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  5. ↑ Arad, Yitzhak (1976). "The "Final Solution" in Lithuania in the Light of German Documentation" (PDF). Yad Vashem Studies. 11: 245–246. ISSN 0084-3296.
  6. ↑ Dieckmann, Christoph; Sužiedėlis, Saulius (2006). The Persecution and Mass Murder of Lithuanian Jews during Summer and Fall of 1941: Sources and Analysis (PDF). The Crimes of the Totalitarian Regimes in Lithuania. Vol. III. Margi raštai. p. 172. ISBN 9986-09-280-9.
  7. ↑ Gitelman, Zvi Y. (1997). Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR. Indiana University Press. p. 103. ISBN 9780253333599.
  8. 1 2 3 Excerpt from Wette, Wolfram (2011). Karl Jäger. Mörder der litauischen Juden (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. pp. 28–29. ISBN 9783596190645. translated and published by Muehlenkamp, Roberto (April 28, 2012). "The Jäger Report (1)". Holocaust Controversies. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  9. ↑ Brazaitis, Juozas (1990). Vienų vieni (PDF) (in Lithuanian) (4th ed.). Vilnius: Viltis. p. 389. ISBN 5-89942-568-7.
  10. ↑ Stankeras, Petras (2006). "Vokiečių saugumo policijos ir saugumo tarnybos (SD) vado institucija Lietuvos generalinėje srityje 1941-1944 metais". Karo Archyvas (in Lithuanian). 21: 206. ISSN 1392-6489.
  11. ↑ Klee, Ernst; Dressen, Willi; Riess, Volker (1988). "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders. The Free Press. pp. 46–58. ISBN 9781568521336.
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