Hans Metzner

Higher SS and Police Leader South's Radio Message on the Massacre at Kamenets-Podolsky: "Special Action Staff with Police Battalion 320 shot 4,200 Jews" tinyurl.com/hhs-x12

Letter dated 17 February 1942 by the District Commissioner of Vilnius county reminded a Local Administrative Head in Nemenčinė “to submit to me without delay the report ... concerning the fencing of the sites of Jewish liquidation”. tinyurl.com/hhs-x11

5 April 1942, German army report from Mariampol (Lithuania): "Provide the Jewish graves with an additional covering of earth", as the cover layer was washed away and "exposed the corpses". tinyurl.com/hhs-x10

The escape involved Jewish prisoners assigned to the Sonderkommando 1005 body-disposal site at Fort IX. The incident was later reported up the chain of command to Himmler, including discussion of how to deal with the guards held responsible. See tinyurl.com/hhs-x8

Situation report dated 13 January 1944 from the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Kovno. According to the report, on 25 December 1943, "64 laborers deployed at Fort IX as part of Operation 1005 B broke out". tinyurl.com/hhs-x4

1943-11-11 / Security Police report from Vilna recorded that of 24,180 Jews in the city and rural ghettos "8,019 Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish Children Have Been Executed". See tinyurl.com/hhs-x3

See also documents that Gauleiter Greiser received permission to kill 100,000 Jews in the Warthegau: x.com/Nazi_atrocitie…

16 Jan 1942 telex from Göring’s Secret Service reported on the Łódź Ghetto that the Gestapo estimated "around 100,000" Jews were "non-working" and the Gauleiter intended their "resettlement" - i.e. deportation to Chełmno extermination camp. tinyurl.com/hhs-x1

And added that, especially in the occupied eastern territories "a fairly rapid solution of the Jewish question is to be sought". They also remarked that "any "actions by the local civilian population against the Jews" were not "to be prevented".

The guideline states that "the Jewish question must be solved generally for all of Europe" and that "measures in the occupied eastern territories which serve the final solution of the Jewish question and thereby the elimination of Jewry are in no way to be hindered".

1942-01-29 / Guidelines for the Occupied Eastern Territories: “Elimination of Jewry…Fairly Rapid Solution of the Jewish Question” holocausthistory.site/1942-01-29-gui…

Lithuanian Police Report During Nazi Occupation: "All citizens of Jewish nationality were liquidated – shot by members of the auxiliary police who had arrived from Kaunas and by German soldiers" holocausthistory.site/1941-09-04-all…

Willi Lenz: The “Doctor” of the Kulmhof (Chełmno) Extermination Camp holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2026/05/willi-…

...Karl Jäger telexed to Riga the "Executions up to 1 February 1942 by EK 3": "Jews 136,421, Communists 1,064, Partisans 56, Mentally ill 653, Poles 44, Russian prisoners of war 28, Gypsies 5, Armenians 1". Total figures: "138,272, of which women 55,556, children 34,464"

On February 6, 1942, the BdS Ostland in Riga telexed its Einsatzkommandos in Reval, Minsk and Kaunas to receive a break-down of "the number of executions carried out" and specifically asked "how many were women and children?" Three days later, the commander of Einsatzkommando 3..

"138,272, of Which Women 55,556, Children 34,464" – Executions Reported By Einsatzkommando 3 Commander Karl Jäger holocausthistory.site/1942-jaeger-re…

"the patient’s severe general and particularly nervous exhaustion, resulting from his deployment in the East, has become apparent...he particularly suffers from thoughts related to the executions of Jews that he himself oversaw and other harrowing experiences in the East.

In this letter dated March 4, 1942, the Reichsarzt SS Ernst-Robert Grawitz describes the medical condition and recovery process of the Higher SS and Police Leader for the central zone in Russia Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski.

The Psychological Toll of Atrocity: Bach-Zelewski “Suffers From Thoughts Related to the Executions of Jews He Himself Oversaw” holocausthistory.site/1942-03-04-the…

The Gauleiter and the Higher SS & Police Leader of the Warthegau request that "approximately 20,000-25,000 Poles" who "are demonstrably suffering from open tuberculosis" to be transferred "to Kommando Lange for special treatment" (i.e. execution). holocausthistory.site/koppe-to-brand/