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Criminal orders (Nazi Germany)

Wehrmacht orders given during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

Criminal orders is the collective name given to a series of orders, directives and decrees given before and during the German 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.

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.