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Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials

Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials Methods of murder in Mauthausen and in the Gusen, Linz and Ebensee sub-camps and others; order given by Himmler and Kaltenbrunner at the end of the war to murder all of the camp inmates, but Ziereis refused to carry out the order; denial of guilt; names and the current location of the staff personnel who carried out the acts of murder, including Dr. Krebsbach, who ordered the building of the gas chamber in Mauthausen, and the Police and SS men Jantsch, Richter, Pohl and Eigruber, who murdered inmates; operation [activation] of the gas chambers by Linberg, Figla and Amelung; murder of inmates by means of gas vans, exposure to the cold, injection of poison, and floggings; arrival of the transports to Mauthausen; death marches; Ziereis' bank properties; inmates brothel; executions of inmates from Austria, 29/04/1945; Operation [Reinhard]; demonstration of a swift execution for the commanders of the camps in Sachsenhausen, in 1941; murder of inmates and mentally ill people by the physicians Kircher and Lohnauer; removal of gold teeth; shaving of hair; tattoos on faces and on the arm; rebuking of Ziereis for a low rate of killing of inmates; outstanding inmates in the camp; son[s]? of Hortey, Cortey, and Badoglio; list of camps that Ziereis supervised, including the number of inmates.
item Id
5759625
Type of material
Official documentation
File Number
287
Language
German
Record Group
O.18 - Yitzhak Stone Collection of NS Documents
Date of Creation - earliest
20/11/1945
Date of Creation - latest
01/10/1946
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
14
Connected to Item
O.18 -Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries