The various reports to the most senior Nazis, of the mass murder of Jews, where Jews are listed as a different group to others, is evidence that mass murders had been ordered, or at least approved of, at the highest level.
Under German law, any civilian combatant, or those assisting are liable to summary execution. Partisans were a huge problem.
Bandits dead in combat 1337. Bandit prisoners executed 737. Bandit helpers executed 14,257. Jews executed 363,211.
