# The Commissar Order directs killing of captured Red Army political commissars

Date: 1941

## The fact

On 6 June 1941 OKW issued the Commissar Order to kill captured political commissars. It is a dated criminal order of the war of annihilation. Adolf Hitler's documented role is: OKW issued the order in his name and with his war-aim. Field commanders implemented unevenly.

## Context

Keitel signed OKW papers. Sharing issuance with OKW is required. Hitler's war-aim speeches are the political source. The setting of The Commissar Order directs killing of captured Red Army political commissars is the public file around 1941-06-06. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

USHMM independently describes the Commissar Order. DHM locates it in German public history. Official carrier: USHMM — Commissar Order (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Independent carrier: DHM — Kommissarbefehl (https://www.dhm.de/; Deutsches Historisches Museum).

Official or archival record: USHMM — Commissar Order (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

## Significance

Worsening justice path of high weight. Complex. High confidence on the order. The welfare reading on this path is worsening. Readers checking this Fact should open both named URLs for The Commissar Order directs killing of captured Red Army political commissars.

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## What is established and what is not

Established: June 1941 Commissar Order. Established: a sourced public record of The Commissar Order directs killing of captured Red Army political commissars under 1941-06-06.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat every eastern crime as this one order. Einsatzgruppen have neighbouring files. Mixed effects of The Commissar Order directs killing of captured Red Army political commissars are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of The Commissar Order directs killing of captured Red Army political commissars. Naming Adolf Hitler does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1941-06-06 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Adolf Hitler: https://factrail.ai/people/adolf-hitler

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/
- https://www.dhm.de/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hitler-commissar-order-1941