Jäger Report Explained

Karl Jäger Report
Month[1] 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)[2] 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.[2] 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:

The nine-page report was prepared in five copies,[2] 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[3] LocationJews[4] Others[5] Total[6] Notes
Men Women Children
4 Jul 1941 416 47 463 By "Lithuanian partisans", i.e. TDA
6 Jul 2,514 2,514 By TDA
7 Jul 32 32 By Rollkommando Hamann (from here on)
8 Jul 14 5 19
8 Jul 6 6 Communist officials
9 Jul 32 2 4 38
9 Jul 21 3 24
14 Jul 21 10 31
17 Jul 6 2 8 All communists
18 Jul 39 14 53
19 Jul 17 2 7 26
21 Jul 59 11 33 103
22 Jul 1 1
23 Jul 83 12 30 125
25 Jul 90 13 103
28 Jul 234 15 39 288
29 Jul 254 3 257
30 Jul 27 11 38
31 Jul 235 16 5 256
31 Jul 13 2 15
1 Aug 254 42 4 300
2 Aug 171 34 4 209
4 Aug 362 41 19 422
5 Aug 213 66 279
7 Aug 483 87 1 571
8 Aug 620 82 702
9 Aug 484 50 534
11 Aug 450 48 2 500
13 Aug 617 100 1 719 (Error in math)
14 Aug 497 55 552
15–16 Aug 3,200 7 3,207
9–16 Aug 294 4 298
493 488 981 All active communists
18 Aug 1,409 402 1 1,812 Including 711 Jewish intellectuals from Ghetto in reprisal for sabotage action
19 Aug 298 255 88 2 645 (Error in math)
22 Aug 1 1 20 21 Prison inspection (Error in math)
22 Aug 544 544 Mentally ill (269 men, 227 women, and 48 children). Located in Latvia.
23 Aug 1,312 4,602 1,609 7,523
18–22 Aug Raseiniai environs 466 440 1,020 1,926
25 Aug 112 627 421 1,160
25–26 Aug 230 275 159 664
26 Aug 767 1,113 687 2 2,569
28 Aug 402 738 209 1,349
26 Aug 1,911 1,911 Unspecified
27 Aug 1,078 1,078 Unspecified
27 Aug 212 4 216 Located in Latvia
27 Aug 47 165 143 355
28 Aug 76 192 134 402
28 Aug 710 767 599 2,076
29 Aug 20 567 197 784
29 Aug 582 1,731 1,469 3,782
13-31 Aug Alytus and environs 233 233
1 Sep 1,763 1,812 1,404 111 5,090 Others include 109 mentally ill
28 Aug – 2 Sep 10 69 20 99
28 Aug – 2 Sep 73 113 61 247
28 Aug – 2 Sep 112 1,200 244 1,556
28 Aug – 2 Sep 30 72 23 125
28 Aug – 2 Sep 26 72 46 144
28 Aug – 2 Sep 207 260 195 662
28 Aug – 2 Sep 86 110 86 282
28 Aug – 2 Sep 20 41 22 83
28 Aug – 2 Sep 42 113 97 252
28 Aug – 2 Sep 448 476 201 1,125
4 Sep 247 6 253
4 Sep 22 64 60 146
4 Sep 6 61 126 193
4 Sep 2 71 86 159
4 Sep 47 118 13 178
5 Sep 1,123 1,849 1,737 4,709
25 Aug – 6 Sep 16 412 415 843
25 Aug – 6 Sep 412 412
9 Sep 287 640 352 1,279
9 Sep 67 370 303 740
10 Sep 223 355 276 854
10 Sep 541 141 149 831
11 Sep 60 70 25 155
11 Sep 229 384 340 953
12 Sep 68 197 149 414
11–12 Sep 43 43 Reprisal against locals helping Russian partisans
26 Sep 412 615 581 1,608 Sick and suspected epidemic cases
2 Oct 633 1,107 496 2,236 As Jews were led away, they mutinied but it was quickly subdued
4 Oct 315 712 818 1,845 Reprisal after a German police officer shot in ghetto
29 Oct 2,007 2,920 4,273 9,200 "Mopping up ghetto of superfluous Jews" (see Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941)
3 Nov 485 511 539 1,535
15 Nov 36 48 31 115
25 Nov 1,159 1,600 175 2,934 Jews from Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main (see Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941)
29 Nov 693 1,155 152 2,000 Jews from Vienna and Breslau
29 Nov 17 1 17 34 (Error in math)
13 Jul – 21 Aug 9,012 573 9,585 EK 3 detachment in Daugavpils, Latvia
12 Aug – 1 Sep 425 19 17 461 EK 3 detachment in Vilnius[7] (from here on)
2 Sep 864 2,019 817 3,700 Reprisal for shooting at German soldiers
12 Sep 993 1,670 771 3,334 (Error in math)
17 Sep 337 687 247 4 1,271 (Error in math)
20 Sep 128 176 99 403
22 Sep 468 495 196 1,159
24 Sep 512 744 511 1,767
25 Sep 215 229 131 575
27 Sep 989 1,636 821 3,446
30 Sep 366 483 597 1,446
4 Oct 432 1,115 436 1,983
6 Oct 213 359 390 962
9 Oct 1,169 1,840 717 3,726
16 Oct 382 507 257 1,146
21 Oct 718 1,063 586 2,367
25 Oct 1,766 812 2,578
27 Oct 946 184 73 1,203
30 Oct 382 789 362 1,533
6 Nov 340 749 252 1,341
19 Nov 76 77 18 171
19 Nov 14 14 POWs and Poles
20 Nov 3 3 POWs
25 Nov 9 46 8 1 64
28 Sep – 17 Oct 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  
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Notes and References

  1. Grouped by the ending date of the massacre
  2. The Jaeger Report: A Chronicle of Nazi Mass Murder . English Translation of the Report Along with Scanned Images of the Original . The Holocaust History Project . Karl Jäger, Commander of the Security Police and the SD, Einsatzkommando 3 . Kauen . December 1, 1941 . webpages 1–9 with transcriptions of photostat facsimiles.
  3. Book: "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders . Ernst . Klee . Willi . Dressen . Volker . Riess . 1988 . The Free Press . 9781568521336 . 46–58 .
  4. If breakdown of Jews not specified, men, women and children are included in a single column
  5. Includes mostly communists and mentally ill
  6. Total is given per original report. Errors in addition are noted with "(Error in math)".
  7. EK 3 took over from EK 9 in Vilnius
  8. As spelled in the original report

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