The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944Merriam Press, 1997 - 136 pages |
Contents
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Early Russian Resistance and German Countermeasures | 55 |
German Occupation Policies in Operation | 73 |
The Occupation Falters | 107 |
The Germans Change Their Tactics | 125 |
Part Three | 133 |
The Partisan Movement Reaches Maturity | 149 |
The Partisans and the Campaign | 159 |
JanuaryJune 1944 | 193 |
Summary and Bibliographical | 215 |
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anti-partisan armored Army Group Center Army Group North attack August Baltic Bandenlage im Bereich bands battalions Bericht brigades Bryansk campaign central sector Central Staff Chef combat commissars Communist Party continued defense demolitions Dnepr east Eighteenth Army Einsatzgruppe enemy flank Footlocker 62 forced Foreign Studies Branch Fourth Panzer Fourth Panzer Army front Fuehrungsabt fuer German Hitler Ibid Ic/AO infantry irregular July Kdos Korueck 584 Lake Ilmen launched Leningrad manpower Meldung miles military Mitte Moscow moved Nachrichten ueber Bandenkrieg natives NKVD Nord occupied OCMH offensive op.cit Operation ZITADELLE organization Panzer Army partisan movement partisan units political Pripyat Pripyat Marshes propaganda Pz AOK raids rail lines railroad Rear Area Red Army Report River Rosenberg Russian sabotage security commands security units September Sixteenth Army supply terrain tion troops Ukraine Ukrainian Wehrmacht White Russia Wi/ID withdrawal
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Page 58 - In the occupied regions conditions must be made unbearable for the enemy and all his accomplices. They must be hounded and annihilated at every step, and all their measures frustrated.
Page 58 - The collective farmers must drive off all their cattle, and turn over their grain to the safe-keeping of state authorities for transportation to the rear. All valuable property, including nonferrous metals, grain, and fuel which cannot be withdrawn, must be destroyed without fail.
Page 71 - September 1941 spoke in terms of fifty or a hundred lives from the occupied areas of the Soviet Union for one German life taken. The order stated that "it should be remembered that a human life in unsettled countries frequently counts for nothing, and a deterrent effect can be obtained only by unusual severity.
Page 58 - In case of forced retreat of Red Army units, all rolling stock must be evacuated; the enemy must not be left a single engine, a single railway car, not a single pound of grain or a gallon of fuel.
Page 71 - In order to nip these machinations in the bud the most drastic measures should be taken immediately on the first indication so that the authority of the occupying forces may be maintained and further spreading prevented. In this connection it should be remembered that a human life in unsettled countries...
Page 49 - At that critical moment ... if [the troops] had once begun a retreat, it might have turned into a panic flight," " for there were no prepared positions to withdraw to. By the middle of January the earlier Russian tactical successes threatened to develop into a strategic disaster for the Germans.
Page 71 - ... the authority of the occupying forces may be maintained, and further spreading prevented. In this connection it should be remembered that a human life in unsettled countries frequently counts for nothing and a deterrent effect can be attained only by unusual severity. The death penalty for 50-100 Communists should generally be regarded in these cases as suitable atonement for one German soldier's life.
Page 69 - Part I of the Geneva Convention of 1929 relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War which...