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Erwin Schulz
Erwin Schulz served as commander of Einsatzkommando 5 within Einsatzgruppe C. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Lviv · Zhytomyr · Berdychiv · occupied Soviet Union through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Erwin Schulz was born on 27 November 1900 and took command of Einsatzkommando 5 in Einsatzgruppe C in June 1941. (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
- The judgment found that under his direction the unit shot 90 to 100 people in Lviv; Schulz proceeded without a victim list or a report establishing guilt. (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
- The Einsatzgruppen tribunal found him guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes and membership in a criminal organisation and sentenced him to twenty years in prison. (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Schulz’s responsibility rests on direct command of a documented execution and on Einsatzkommando 5’s acts during his command, not on automatically attributing every crime of Einsatzgruppe C to him. (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
Key events and mechanisms
- 23 June 1941 – Einsatzkommando 5 departed east under Schulz’s command (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
- July 1941 – shooting of 90–100 people in Lviv under his direction (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
- September 1941 – relinquished command of Einsatzkommando 5 (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
- 10 April 1948 – sentenced to twenty years in prison (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
The US tribunal in the Einsatzgruppen trial found Schulz guilty and sentenced him to twenty years’ imprisonment. (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
Limits of the evidence
The judgment noted his later effort to leave the command but did not treat it as erasing responsibility for the earlier execution. The profile does not transfer all Einsatzgruppe C crimes to him. (Source: Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project, HLSL seq. 6797–6801; individual judgment concerning Erwin Schulz; Source: Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project, Einsatzgruppen Case, defendants and verdicts; Schulz entry; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Holocaust and Colonialism in Ukraine, pp. 4–5 and notes concerning EK 5)
Sources
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