1943) Einsatzkommando 8 The Einsatzkommando was active in Volkovisk, Baranovichi, Babruysk, Lahoysk, Mogilev, and Minsk. It executed 74,740 people. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Otto Bradfisch (June 1941–1 April 1942) SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Richter (1 April–September 1942) SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Isselhorst (September–November 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans-Gerhard Schindhelm (7 November 1942 – October 1943) SS-Sturmbannführer Alfred Rendörffer (?) Einsatzkommando 9 The Einsatzkommando was active in Vilna (see the Vilna Ghetto), Grodno (the Grodno Ghetto), Lida, Bielsk-Podlaski, Nevel, Lepel, Surazh, Vyazma, Gzhatsk, Mozhaisk, Vitebsk (the Vitebsk Ghetto), Smolensk, and Varena. It executed 41,340 people. SS-Obersturmbannführer (June–20 October 1941) SS-Obersturmbannführer (October 1941 – February 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Wiebens (February 1942 – January 1943) SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Friedrich Buchardt (January 1943 – October 1944) SS-Sturmbannführer Werner Kämpf (October 1943 – March 1944) Vorkommando Moskau The Vorkommando—also known as Sonderkommando 7c—was to operate in Moscow, until it became apparent that Moscow would not fall; it was incorporated to Sonderkommando 7b, where it was active in Smolensk and executed 4,660 people. SS-Brigadeführer Professor Dr. Franz Six (20 June–20 August 1941) SS-Obersturmbannführer Waldemar Klingelhöfer (August–September 1941) SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Erich Körting (September–December 1941) SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Friedrich Buchardt (December 1941 – January 1942) SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock (January–June 1942) Einsatzgruppe C The Einzatzgruppe C, as a whole, was attached to the Army Group South and executed 118,341 people. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. Otto Rasch (June–October 1941) SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Max Thomas (October 1941–29 April 1943) SS-Standartenführer Horst Böhme (6 September 1943 – March 1944) Sonderkommando 4a The Sonderkommando was active in Lviv (see the Lwów Ghetto), Lutsk (the Łuck Ghetto), Rovno (Rovno ghetto), Zhytomyr, Pereyaslav, Yagotyn, Ivankov, Radomyshl, Lubny, Poltava, Kiev (see Babi Yar), Kursk, Kharkiv. By 30 November 1941, the unit had executed 59,018 people. SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel (June 1941–13 January 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer Erwin Weinmann (13 January–27 July 1942) SS-Sturmbannführer Eugen Steimle (August 1942–15 January 1943) SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Schmidt (January–February 1943) SS-Sturmbannführer Theodor Christensen (March–December 1943) Sonderkommando 4b The Sonderkommando was active in Lviv, Tarnopol (modern Ternopil, see the Tarnopol Ghetto), Kremenchug, Poltava, Sloviansk, Proskurov, Vinnytsia, Kramatorsk, Gorlovka and Rostov. It executed 6,329 people. SS-Obersturmbannführer Günther Herrmann (June–October 1941) SS-Obersturmbannführer Fritz Braune (2 October 1941–21 March 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Walter Hänsch (March–July 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer August Meier (July–November 1942) SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Suhr (November 1942 – August 1943) SS-Sturmbannführer Waldemar Krause (August 1943 – January 1944) Einsatzkommando 5 The Einsatzkommando was active in Lviv (see the Lwów Ghetto), Brody, Dubno, Berdičhev, Skvyra and