Criminal orders of the Wehrmacht

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The Criminal orders of the Wehrmacht were a series of directives issued to German armed forces during World War II that sanctioned and encouraged war crimes, including the systematic murder and brutal treatment of civilians and prisoners, particularly on the Eastern Front.

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Criminal orders of the Wehrmacht canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf set of military directives
war crimes policy framework
appliesTo German Army
German armed forces on the Eastern Front
Wehrmacht
characterizedBy authorization of summary executions
collective punishment
denial of prisoner-of-war status to Soviet soldiers
impunity for crimes committed by German soldiers
conflict World War II
consequence mass murder of civilians
mass shootings
starvation of prisoners of war
systematic war crimes on the Eastern Front
countryOfOrigin Nazi Germany
front Eastern Front
historicalAssessment evidence of institutional complicity of the Wehrmacht in Nazi crimes
ideology Nazism
anti-Bolshevism
racist ideology against Slavs and Jews
implementedBy German Army units on the Eastern Front
Wehrmacht field commanders
includes Barbarossa Decree
Commissar Order
Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia
Hostage-taking and reprisal orders
Jurisdiction Order Barbarossa
Severity Order
issuedBy Adolf Hitler
High Command of the Wehrmacht
OKW
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
legalEffect suspended protections of international law for Soviet civilians
suspended protections of international law for Soviet prisoners of war
purpose encourage brutal treatment of civilians
facilitate ideological war against the Soviet Union
sanction war crimes
recognizedAs crimes against humanity
war crimes
relatedTo Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
targetedGroup Soviet Jews
linked to: Soviet Jewry

Soviet civilians
Soviet political commissars
Soviet prisoners of war
timePeriod 1941–1945
violates Geneva Conventions
Hague Conventions

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Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia relatedTo Criminal orders of the Wehrmacht