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Title
The Commisar Order
Description
By Hitler’s order, all political officers captured by the German army were to be treated severely, normally shot on sight. A Commisar and some NKVD units have been trapped by the advancing Germans. Dorokhov steels his comrades for the …
Subject
Source
Publisher
Date
1941-06-29
Scenario#
E03
Scenario Description
By Hitler’s order, all political officers captured by the German army were to be treated severely, normally shot on sight. A Commisar and some NKVD units have been trapped by the advancing Germans. Dorokhov steels his comrades for the fight.
Location
Volyn Oblast, Ukraine
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Commissar Order was an order issued by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Its official name was Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars. It instructed the Wehrmacht that any Soviet political commissar identified among captured troops be summarily executed as a purported enforcer of the "Judeo-Bolshevism" ideology in military forces. It is one of a series of criminal orders issued by the leadership.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Commissar Order
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Combatants
German
Russian
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Geolocation
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