A war that differed from all others
Preparations for the war against the Soviet Union began in the fall of 1940.
Three months before the war began, Hitler revealed to the Wehrmacht High Command
that this campaign would be special. The
intention was to not only militarily conquer and defeat the Soviet Union,
as the enemy, but to utterly eliminate the system of »Jewish Bolshevism.«
According to Hitler, the ideological goals of this war called for another
form of warfare, to which international humanitarian law and the laws and
customs ...
OKW
Order for the Exercise of Military Jurisdiction and Procedure in Area »Barbarossa«
and Special Military Measures, May 13, 1941
Bundesarchiv/Militärarchiv, RW 4/v. 577, Bl. 72—74, Faksimile Bl.
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