1. Political officials and leaders are to be liquidated.
2. Insofar as they are captured by the troops, an officer with authority to impose disciplinary punishment decides whether the given individual must be liquidated. For such a decision the fact suffices that he is a political official.
3. Political leaders in the troops (Red Army) are not recognized as prisoners of war and are to be liquidated at the latest in the prisoner-of-war transit camps.


Order issued to the German Army about the occupation of the Soviet Union, May 12th, 1941. Quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 335 - by Eugene Davidson - History

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1. Political officials and leaders are to be liquidated. 2. Insofar as they are captured by the troops, an officer with authority to impose...

1. Political officials and leaders are to be liquidated. 2. Insofar as they are captured by the troops, an officer with authority to impose...

1. Political officials and leaders are to be liquidated. 2. Insofar as they are captured by the troops, an officer with authority to impose...

1. Political officials and leaders are to be liquidated. 2. Insofar as they are captured by the troops, an officer with authority to impose...