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Affidavit submitted by Robert Barth, a soldier in Einsatzgruppe D, regarding the unit's activities in Ukraine, Yugoslavia, the Caucasus area and the Krym peninsula

Affidavit submitted by Robert Barth, a soldier in Einsatzgruppe D, regarding the unit's activities in Ukraine, Yugoslavia, the Caucasus area and the Krym peninsula Reconstruction of the path of Einsatzgruppe D and Einsatzkommandos 10A, 10B, 11A and the twelve units subordinate to it, from Transnistria until Yugoslavia; [Forced] return to Ukraine of Jewish refugees who escaped from Bessarabia and Bukovina; execution of Jews from Ananyev, Nikolayev, Kherson, Simferopol, Feodosiya and Kerch, including the number of victims and the operational units and their commanders; murder of a group of partisans near Skadovsk; "Aktions" against partisans in the Feodosiya, Simferopol and Alushta areas; murder of Gypsies and Krymchaks by means of gas vans; transfer of Einsatzkommando 10A to the Caucasus area for [the purpose of?] anti-partisans activities; retreat [?] from Nalchik to Bolshoy Tokmak; changing of the name [of the unit] from Einsatzgruppe D to Kampfgruppe Bierkamp; transfer of the unit to Croatia; cruel attitude of Kommandofuehrer Zeezen, from Einsatzkommando 10A; The affidavit was written in a detention camp near London in December 1943; A copy of the affidavit was sent by the British Intelligence Service from Stalag - Sandbostel in October 1946 (the year 1943, at the bottom of the document, was indicated as being an error); The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial.
item Id
5925981
Type of material
Investigation report
File Number
293
Language
German
Record Group
O.18 - Yitzhak Stone Collection of NS Documents
Date of Creation - earliest
12/1943
Date of Creation - latest
22/10/1946
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
3
Connected to Item
O.18 -Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries