By the end of August, these task forces had been given Special Wanted
Persons Lists, which had been compiled jointly by the Security Police and the Abwehr, German military counter-intelligence. These lists consisted of ten ledgers containing over sixty thousand names, who were the targets of Operation Tannenberg - Tannenberg being the name of a famous defeat the Teutonic Knights suffered in 1410 at the hands of the Poles, as well as the location of General Paul von Hindenburg's victory over the Russians in 1914 - for the liquidation of Poland's elites. There was no doubt from where the order came: writing to a colleague, Heydrich said that Hitler had given him еhe 'extraordinarily radical... order for the liquidation of various
circles of the Polish leadership, [killings] that ran into the thousands'.21
ссылка на Confidential Protocol dated 28 September 1939, in DGFP Series D (1937-45) vol. 8 (London 1954) doc. no. 158 p.165