GIS Map 19: the Nönning Judenjagd
GIS Map 20: Unternehmen Vatertag—3 June 1943
GIS Map 21: JSKB second phase north/south final deployment
GIS Map 22: Plan for Unternehmen Paul, 28–29 May 1944
List of Images
Image 3: European Bison in Białowieźa.
Image 5: Bernd von Brauchitsch in his cell in Nuremberg prison 1946.
Image 7: Sites of memory—Located beside the railway in Zabłotczyzna (2 miles from Narewka), the memorial refers to approximately 500 Jews killed on 5 August 1941. The German records show 282 Jewish men were killed at that place on 15 August 1941.
Image 8: A German Army Ortskommandtur: issuing daily notices and labour assignments.
Image 9: Captured Soviet partisans after interrogation but before execution.
Image 10: Armed trusty and Nazi Collaborator.
Image 11: Białowieźa forest—partisan memorial in the conservation area.
Image 12: Civilian deportations and allocation to work or forced labour duties.
Image 13: Villages destroyed and cattle taken under the Nazi food plan.
Image 14: Luftwaffe troops in company order.
Image 15: Luftwaffe troops in action in the forest.
Image 16: Wounded Luftwaffe troops recovering in a military hospital.
Image 17: Typical strongpoint construction in wood.
Image 18: Reichsjägermeister Göring and his prize— Matador —the ceremony for the dead stag—22 September1942
Image 19: The signals was regarded as the advanced branch of the Luftwaffe. Recruits received a full training schedule equivalent to apprenticeships in industry.
Image 20: Sites of memory—Soviet military cemetery located within Hajnówka town. Engraving reads: Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Junior Lieutenant Aleksii Vasilevich Florenko. Born 6 February 1922. He died in the fight to liberate Hajnówka region 25 July 1944.
Image 21: Sites of memory—located in the centre of Białowieźa town, the memorial stands on the site where public executions were conducted during the Nazi occupation.
Image 22: Sites of memory—located within the Narewka town limits, the Jewish cemetery survived the Nazi occupation.
Image 23: Sites of memory—located nearby Białowieźa town. They are memorials to the mass killings and destroyed villages in 1942. They stand in the grounds of the former German military cemetery, first constructed during the Imperial German Army occupation in 1915-18.
Image 24: In his position as General of Fighters, Adolf Galland approved and endorsed this anti-Semitic trope in comic form. The connections between hunting, the Luftwaffe and training had reached complete integration.
Image 25: Sites of memory—German dead relocated from Białowieźa cemetery. The search for Siegfried Adams burial place marked by my index finger.
Image 26: Heimatkriegsgebiet - Luftwaffe troops in training building small unit cohesion.
Image 27: Dress uniforms and other duties.
Image 28: The Luftwaffe troops assigned to the LWSB/JSKB were generally young and often reassigned from non-combat branches.
Abbreviations and Glossary
AA: Arolsen Archives, located at: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/ search/
BArch: Bundesarchiv, including BA: Berlin (Lichterfelde); BAK: (Koblenz); BA MA: Bundesarchiv Militärarchiv, (Freiburg); BA-ZNS: Bundesarchiv-Zentralnachweisstelle (formerly in Aachen).
CMH: United States Army Center of Military History.
CP: command post.
DDSt: Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt), former Wehrmacht personnel archive.
FJK/FSK: Feldjägerkorps or Feldschützkorps, Nazi paramilitary forestry formations.
FMS: US Army Historical Branch, Foreign Military Studies (German army).
FSKAB: Forstschutzkommando-Abteilung Bialowies, the paramilitary forestry formations assigned to Białowieźa.
HSSPF: Höhere SS-Polizeiführer, regional or theatre SS and Police commander.
IMT: International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg.
IWM: Imperial War Museum, (London).
Jagen: a 1 kilometre square sector, a measurent to micro-manage trees and game reserves.
JSKB: Luftwaffe Jäger Sonderbataillon Bialowies zbV. (March 1943–August 1944).
Ln. : Luftwaffenachrichten, Luftwaffe signals.
Luftwaffe: German Air Force.
Lw.: Luftwaffe abbreviated for ranks and units.
LWSB: Luftwaffe Sonderbataillon Bialowies zbV. (July 1942–March 1943).
MGFA: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Bundeswehr’s military history department since changed to ZMSBw, see below.
NARA: National Archive, College Park annex, Colombia Park Maryland, USA.
NCOs: German Unteroffiziere and non-commissioned officer ranks.
OP: observation post.
ORs: other ranks, non-commissioned military personnel.
PB: police battalion.
PoW: Prisoner(s) of War.
RFA: Reichsforstamt—Nazi ministry of state forestry.
Soltys: Lithuanian, refers to the local head person of a village.
SSPF: SS-Polizeiführer, district SS and Police commander.
TNA: The National Archives, formerly the Public Records Office (PRO), London
TsAMO Bestand 500 Findbuch 12452: Deutsch-Russisches Pojekt Zur Digitalisierung Deutscher Dokumente in Archiven Der Russischen Föderation (digitised captured German records). Located online at: https://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/de/ nodes/ 2410-findbuch-12452-oberkommando-der-luftwaffe-okl
USHMM: United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum, Washington DC, USA.
Waffen-SS: militarised Schutzstaffeln, the military expansion from