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The area commanders' duties included security of communications and supply lines, economic exploitation and combatting guerillas (partisans) in
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Wehrmacht. He operated in parallel, and in cooperation, with
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War of
Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
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Marching into
Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
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War in the Wild East the German Army and Soviet
Partisans
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The Shoah in Ukraine: history, testimony, memorialization
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The commander of the Army Group South Rear Area, General
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Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust
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649:Kommandostab ReichsfĂŒhrer-SS
610:Army Group Rear Area Command
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438:Beorn, Waitman Wade (2014).
209:Higher SS and Police Leaders
135:invasion of the Soviet Union
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199:) and oversaw the units of
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183:Roques controlled three
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247:Order Police battalions
158:crimes against humanity
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710:Max von Schenckendorff
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243:Police Regiment South
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