Euthanasia

Medical Services Report issued by the Ortskommandantur in Mariampol (Lithuania) on 5 April 1942. the report notes the need to reinforce "the Jewish graves at the edge of the barracks grounds with an additional covering of earth, because runoff from precipitation and flooding (the graves are located directly on the bank of the Sesupe River and are covered only by a 50 cm layer of earth) have washed away the covering layer and exposed the corpses".

Situation report dated 13 January 1944 from the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Kovno. According to the report, on 25 December 1943, "64 laborers deployed at Fort IX as part of Operation 1005 B broke out". Subsequent search operations resulted in the recapture of "37 of the escapees" of whom "5 were shot while fleeing". The escape involved Jewish prisoners assigned to the Sonderkommando 1005 body-disposal site at Fort IX. The incident was later reported up the chain of command to Himmler, including discussion of how to deal with the guards held responsible.

Willi Lenz, a Schutzpolizei officer born in 1894, was one of the most brutal perpetrators at the Kulmhof (Chełmno) extermination camp. Known as the “Doctor,” he supervised forced laborers in the forest camp, personally shot those who were exhausted or survived the gas vans, and later used his experience in operations to exhume and burn the bodies of Nazi victims. Returning to Kulmhof in 1944, he continued killing prisoners during the liquidation of the Łódź Ghetto. In January 1945, while helping to execute the camp’s remaining Jewish prisoners before the German retreat, Lenz was killed during their resistance in the

On 9 November 1943, the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania sent a telex to the Vilna office and ordered the preparation of a report on the "executive/security situation in all of Lithuania for the year 1943 up to the present". The Security Police office in Vilna submitted its report two days later, on 11 November 1943. On the Jews, the report stated that the Vilna Ghetto and the smaller rural ghettos together had contained "24,180 Jews". Of these, "8,019 Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish children have been executed", while a further "14,000 Jews were registered and dispatched

On 29 January 1942, the office of the Reichsführer-SS forwarded to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories a proposed version of guidelines for the “Jewish question.” The guideline states that "the Jewish question must be solved generally for all of Europe" and that "measures in the occupied eastern territories which serve the final solution of the Jewish question and thereby the elimination of Jewry are in no way to be hindered". The guidelines added that, especially in the occupied eastern territories "a fairly rapid solution of the Jewish question is to be sought". They also remarked that "any

Report dated September 4, 1941, from the Kaišiadorys police precinct (Trakai district, Lithuania) to the head of the Trakai district. The document records that “on August 27 … all citizens of Jewish nationality were liquidated – shot by members of the auxiliary police who had arrived from Kaunas and by German soldiers.” The author then turns to administrative matters and requested “instructions on how to proceed with the remaining movable and immovable property of the Jews.”