Ezergailis 1996b, p. 241: "On November 12, Jeckeln received his order from Himmler to kill the Jews of the Riga ghetto." Other sources give the date of Himmler's order as November 10 or November 11. Fleming, Hitler and the Final Solution, at 75 Ezergailis, Andrew (1996b). The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944: The Missing Center. Riga / Washington DC: Historical Institute of Latvia and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ISBN978-9984905433.
According to the judgment of the Tribunal in the Einsatzgruppen case (p. 448): "It was stated in the early part of this opinion that women and children were to be executed with the men so that Jews, gypsies, and so-called asocials would be exterminated for all time. In this respect, the Einsatzgruppen leaders encountered a difficulty they had not anticipated. Many of the enlisted men were husbands and fathers, and they winced as they pulled their triggers on these helpless creatures who reminded them of their own wives and offspring at home. In this emotional disturbance they often aimed badly and it was necessary for the Kommando leaders to go about with a revolver or carbine, firing into the moaning and writhing forms." This situation was reported to the RSHA in Berlin, and to relieve the emotional sensitivity of the executioners, gas vans were sent as an additional killing system. Angrick & Klein 2012, p. 152. Angrick, Andrej; Klein, Peter (2012). The 'Final Solution' in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944. Translation from German by Ray Brandon. Berghahn Books. ISBN978-0857456014.
Max Kaufmann, a ghetto survivor, reported one "Altmeyer" as one of the guards forming up the columns of Jews in the ghetto on the morning of November 30, but whether this is the same person with whom Bruns spoke is not clear from the sources. Kaufmann 2010, pp. 60–1. Kaufmann, Max (2010). Churbn Lettland - The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia(PDF). Translation by Laimdota Mazzarins. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag. ISBN978-3-86628-315-2. Archived from the original(PDF) on 30 October 2018.
Max Kaufmann, a ghetto survivor, reported one "Altmeyer" as one of the guards forming up the columns of Jews in the ghetto on the morning of November 30, but whether this is the same person with whom Bruns spoke is not clear from the sources. Kaufmann 2010, pp. 60–1. Kaufmann, Max (2010). Churbn Lettland - The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia(PDF). Translation by Laimdota Mazzarins. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag. ISBN978-3-86628-315-2. Archived from the original(PDF) on 30 October 2018.
