The Military Justice Decree (German: Kriegsgerichtsbarkeitserlass), commonly known as the Barbarossa decree, was one of the criminal orders of the Wehrmacht issued by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel on 13 May 1941. The decree declared that the upcoming Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, would be a war of extermination and endorsed war crimes against Soviet civilians.
The Military Justice Decree (German: Kriegsgerichtsbarkeitserlass), commonly known as the Barbarossa decree, was one of the criminal orders of the Wehrmacht issued by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel on 13 May 1941. The decree declared that the upcoming Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, would be a war of extermination and endorsed war crimes against Soviet civilians.
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