Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia

Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia was a criminal order issued on May 19, 1941, during World War II.

The order states "Bolshevism is the deadly enemy of the National Socialist German people.

This struggle demands a ruthless and strenuous crackdown on Bolshevik agitators, irregulars, saboteurs and Jews, and the complete elimination of both active and passive resistance.

[3] The order described Nazi Germany's planned war against Russia as a "historic task to liberate the German people once forever from the Asiatic-Jewish danger".

[4] Wade Beorn writing in Marching into Darkness notes that the order targets Jews explicitly as "racial enemies to be eliminated by the military regardless of their behavior".