English Translation

1 4 1a their use has not yet reached the form and the measure as the official Bolshevik authorities had provided in their plans. Nevertheless, the activities of the guerrillas in the rear army and army area have developed into an insecurity factor which must be vigorously opposed by all means, not only because attacks on German soldiers and individual vehicles are taking place on an ongoing basis, but because there will be no calming in the Soviet Russian population, especially in the countryside, as long as these terrorist and partisan groups are active. An operation group of the security police and the SD managed to make a total of 1,300 armed guerrillas harmless. Principle in the fight against the destruction must be 16717 of guerrillas and not their expulsion. Thus, it is decisive that by a conversion of the area to be combed every possibility of escape and escape is taken away. Officers and commissioners are to be heard and then shot immediately. Without their leadership the groups will fall apart as a result of the mentality of the primitive Soviet man, especially if this dissolution is prepared by appropriate propaganda.