Reichsführer-SS Field Command Reports & Bandit-Fighting Operations, 1941–1943 (Irving file T175-124)

This roll brings together a substantial body of high-level SS and police documentation, chiefly from Himmler’s Feld-Kommandostelle and related offices. It includes:

• Field command correspondence and reports
  • Reports, memoranda, circular letters and telegrams from the Feld-Kommandostelle des Reichsführers-SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei.
  • Correspondence on internal SS matters, deployments and organisational changes in the Waffen-SS.
• Anti-partisan warfare and “Bandenbekämpfung”
  • Multiple “Meldungen an den Führer über Bandenbekämpfung” (Reports to Hitler on bandit fighting), including numbered situation reports from late 1942 and January 1943.
  • Reports on operations against partisans and resistance groups in:
    • Belarus (Weissruthenien)
    • Russia-Centre (Russland-Mitte)
    • Upper and Lower Carniola (Oberkrain / Unterkrain) and the Italian-occupied Province of Laibach
    • Other occupied regions in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
  • An operation report “Unternehmen Franz” (Tscherwen–Ossipowitschi sector).
  • A report on operation “Erntefest” (Harvest Festival) and its context within anti-partisan measures.
  • Orders and instructions for security forces, including guidelines for combing and patrolling swamp areas with cavalry units.
• Yugoslavia and the Draža Mihailović movement
  • Detailed reporting on the suppression and “Bekämpfung der Draža Mihailović-Bewegung” and the German assessment of Chetnik, partisan and other groups in occupied Yugoslavia.
  • Material on collaboration, reprisals and the political situation in the region.
• Waffen-SS organisation and personnel
  • Circulars from SS-Führungshauptamt / Kommandoamt der Waffen-SS on organisational changes and structural questions, 1942–1943.
  • Reports on the deployment of SS-Infanterie-Regiment “Westland” against “kommunistische Terrortruppen” near the Wörthersee in Carinthia.
  • Strength reports (Kriegsstärkenachweisungen) and related statistics for SS units.
  • A compilation of former SS members who committed suicide in the months July to September 1942.
  • A report on losses among “germanische und volksdeutsche Kriegsfreiwillige” (Germanic and ethnic German war volunteers).
• Occupation policy and internal politics
  • Reports on the political and military situation in:
    • Italy’s occupied territories in Slovenia (Laibach and surrounding regions).
    • Vichy France and the position of Marshal Pétain and General Weygand.
    • Spain and German agents or “Vertrauensmänner” in Spain.

Disclaimer

This file contains original documents produced by offices of the Reichsführer-SS and other National Socialist authorities during the Second World War. The material includes:

• Explicitly racist, antisemitic and otherwise discriminatory language
• Ideological propagandaDescriptions and bureaucratic euphemisms relating to violence, repression and mass killing of civilians
• These documents are presented solely for historical research and documentation. Their inclusion in this archive does not imply approval, endorsement or normalization of the views, policies or actions they describe.

  Users are strongly advised to approach this material critically and in context, bearing in mind that terms such as “Bandenbekämpfung” (“bandit-fighting”) and “security measures” often functioned as cover-words for terror operations and crimes against humanity.

  This content may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised. The file is not intended for use in agitation, propaganda or any activity that promotes hatred or discrimination.

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