CommissarOrderImplementation
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CommissarOrderImplementation refers to the Nazi German enforcement of the criminal "Commissar Order," which led to the systematic execution and brutal mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war, especially political officers, during World War II.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi policy implementation
→
war crime → |
| aimedAt |
destroying Bolshevik leadership
→
elimination of Soviet political commissars → terrorizing Soviet troops → |
| appliesTo |
Red Army personnel
→
Soviet political commissars → Soviet prisoners of war → |
| basedOn |
Commissar Order
→
|
| characterizedBy |
brutal mistreatment of prisoners
→
denial of prisoner-of-war protections → ideologically motivated violence → summary executions → |
| conflict |
World War II
→
|
| documentedIn |
Nuremberg Trials evidence
→
postwar war crimes trials → |
| historicalAssessment |
example of criminalization of German warfare in the East
→
key element of Nazi genocidal policy against Soviet state representatives → |
| implementedThrough |
cooperation between Wehrmacht and SS
→
orders to frontline units → screening of captured Soviet soldiers → separation of commissars from other POWs → |
| justifiedBy |
Nazi anti-Bolshevik ideology
→
Nazi racial doctrine → |
| legalStatus |
crime against humanity
→
violation of international law → violation of the laws and customs of war → war crime under postwar tribunals → |
| location |
Eastern Front
→
German POW camps for Soviet prisoners → occupied Soviet territories → |
| opposedBy |
some German officers
→
|
| orderedBy |
Adolf Hitler
→
German High Command → OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) → |
| perpetrator |
Einsatzgruppen
→
German Army → German field commanders → German military police units → SS units → Wehrmacht → |
| resultedIn |
high mortality among Soviet prisoners of war
→
mass executions of Soviet POWs → strengthening of radicalization of warfare on the Eastern Front → systematic targeting of political officers → |
| startContext |
German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
→
|
| startTime |
1941
→
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
SovietPrisonersOfWar
→
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victimOf |