Historian Peter Longerich states that Hitler "avoided giving a clear written order to exterminate Jewish civilians"
"a handwritten note by Himmler"
read: "Jewish Question; to be exterminated as partisans".
Evidence for the holocaust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_and_documentation_for_the_Holocaust
"A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity."
Partisan (military)