IV or EG IV–Dramburg (under SS-Brigadeführer Lothar Beutel, replaced by Josef Albert Meisinger in October 1939) deployed with the 4th Army in Pomorze (see also EG-V) Einsatzkommando 1/IV: SS-Sturmbannführer und Regierungsrat Helmut Bischoff Einsatzkommando 2/IV: SS-Sturmbannführer und Regierungsrat Walter Hammer Einsatzgruppe V or EG V–Allenstein (under SS-Standartenfürer Ernst Damzog), deployed with the 3rd Army Einsatzkommando 1/V: SS-Sturmbannführer und Regierungsrat Heinz Gräfe Einsatzkommando 2/V: SS-Sturmbannführer und Regierungsrat Robert Schefe Einsatzkommando 3/V: SS-Sturmbannführer und Regierungsrat Walter Albath Einsatzgruppe VI (under SS-Oberführer Erich Naumann), deployed in Wielkopolska area Einsatzkommando 1/VI: SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Sommer Einsatzkommando 2/VI: SS-Sturmbannführer Gerhard Flesch Einsatzgruppe z. b. V. (under SS-Obergruppenführer Udo von Woyrsch and SS-Oberfürer Otto Rasch), deployed in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia Einsatzkommando 16 or EK–16 Danzig (under SS-Sturmbannführer Rudolf Tröger), deployed in Pomerania () after the withdrawal of EG-IV and EG-V. The Commando was involved in the massacres in Piaśnica known as "Pommern Katyń" between the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940 conducted in Piasnica Wielka (pictured). The civilian shooters belonged to Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz aiding EK–16. During that period approximately 12,000 to 16,000 Poles, Jews, Czechs, and Germans were murdered. Not to be confused with Einsatzkommando 16 of Einsatzgruppe E deployed in Croatia (see below) Einsatzgruppe A Einsatzgruppe A, attached to the Army Group North, was formed in Gumbinnen in East Prussia on 23 June 1941. Stahlecker – its first commander – deployed the unit toward the Lithuanian border. His group consisted of 340 men from the Waffen-SS, 89 from the Gestapo, 35 from the SD, 133 from the Orpo, and 41 from the Kripo. Soviet troops withdrew from the Lithuanian temporary capital Kaunas (Kovno) the day before, and the city was taken over by Lithuanians during the anti-Soviet uprising. On 25 June, the Einsatzgruppe A entered Kaunas with the forward units of the German army. Commanders SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. Franz Walter Stahlecker (22 June 1941–23 March 1942) SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Heinz Jost (29 March–2 September 1942) SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader (10 September 1942–4 September 1943) SS-Oberführer Friedrich Panzinger (5 September 1943–6 May 1944) SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs (6 May–10 October 1944) Sonderkommando 1a SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Martin Sandberger (June 1941–1943) SS-Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Baatz (1 August 1943–15 October 1944) Sonderkommando 1b SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Erich Ehrlinger (June–November 1941) SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Hoffmann (As Deputy) – (January–March 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Eduard Strauch (March–August