Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia

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Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia was a Nazi German directive issued before the invasion of the Soviet Union that laid out harsh, ideologically driven rules for the behavior of Wehrmacht soldiers toward the Soviet state and population.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi German directive
Wehrmacht order
military directive
appliesTo German Army troops on the Eastern Front
Operation Barbarossa
Wehrmacht
associatedWith ideological indoctrination of German troops
characteristic harsh toward the civilian population
ideologically driven
supports war of annihilation in the East
consequence contributed to the Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories
facilitated crimes against humanity
facilitated war crimes
context preparation for Operation Barbarossa
countryOfOrigin Nazi Germany
documentType classified military order at the time of issue
enforcedBy Wehrmacht officers
historicalAssessment considered part of the criminal orders of the Nazi regime
historicalField history of Nazi occupation policy
history of the Eastern Front in World War II
ideology Nazism
anti-Slavic racism
anti-communism
racism
issuedBy Wehrmacht High Command
surface form: German High Command

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
language German
legalStatus violated international humanitarian law
opposedTo principles of the laws of war
purpose to facilitate harsh occupation policies
to regulate the conduct of German troops in the Soviet Union
to support ideological war against the Soviet state
relatedTo Barbarossa Decree
Commissar Order
Criminal orders of the Wehrmacht
subjectMatter behavior of German soldiers toward the Soviet population
behavior of German soldiers toward the Soviet state
targetRegion Soviet Union
occupied Soviet territories
timePeriod World War II
usedBy German field commanders on the Eastern Front
victimGroup Jewish population in the Soviet Union
Soviet civilians
Soviet prisoners of war
other perceived political enemies of Nazi Germany in the USSR

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Commissar Order relatedTo Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia
Barbarossa Decree relatedDocument Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia
Reichenau Severity Order alsoKnownAs Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia
this entity surface form: Order on the Conduct of Troops in the Eastern Territories