The Commissar Order (German: "Kommissarbefehl") was a written order given by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 Junld be identified as "thoroughly bolshevized or as active representatives of the Bolshevist ideology" were also to be executed.
The Commissar Order (German: "Kommissarbefehl") was a written order given by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941, prior to the beginning of Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the Soviet Union). Those prisoners who could be identified as "thoroughly bolshevized or as active representatives of the Bolshevist ideology" were also to be executed.