Editing Franz Walter Stahlecker (section)

== Einsatzgruppe A ==
On 6 February 1941 Stahlecker was promoted to ''SS-Brigadeführer'' and ''Generalmajor der Polizei'' and took over as commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A, in hopes of furthering his career with the ''Reichssicherheitshauptamt'' (RSHA), Nazi Germany's security police and intelligence organization. In June 1941, Einsatzgruppe A followed Army Group North and operated in the Baltic states and areas of Russia up to Leningrad.<sup>[2]</sup> Its mission was to hunt down and annihilate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and other "undesirables". In a 15 October 1941 report, Stahlecker wrote:

A wounded Stahlecker on 22 December 1941

By winter 1941, Stahlecker reported to Berlin that Einsatzgruppe A had murdered some 249,420 Jews. He was made Higher SS and Police Leader (German: ''Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer'', HSSPF) of Reichskommissariat Ostland, which included Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus, at the end of November 1941.Stahlecker was killed in action on 23 March 1942, in a clash with Soviet partisans near Krasnogvardeysk, Russia.Heinz Jostthen assumed command of ''Einsatzgruppe A''.
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