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Autobiographical essay by SS General Oswald Pohl, and notes regarding Hans Frank and Adolf Hitler

Autobiographical essay by SS General Oswald Pohl, and notes regarding Hans Frank and Adolf Hitler Autobiographical essay by SS General Oswald Pohl, chief administrator of the concentration camps, regarding his career, including remarks about Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Hans Frank.

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Documents from the process in Regional Courts (Landesgericht) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 28; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1960 - 1962 Testimony (05/09/1960) of Eugen Schweizer, born 1908; member of the NSDAP since 1933; police inspector with administrative tasks; transferred to Warsaw in 01/1940, ranked as SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant); at the office of the KdS (commander of the security police) until 12/1944, detached to the RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) in Berlin in 01/1945;...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Affidavit submitted by Emil Puhl, the vice president of the Reichsbank, regarding deposits into the SS account of valuables that were confiscated from Jews and camp inmates, dated, 1946

Affidavit submitted by Emil Puhl, the vice president of the Reichsbank, regarding deposits into the SS account of valuables that were confiscated from Jews and camp inmates, dated, 1946 Affidavit submitted by Puhl, regarding receiving an order from Funk, the Minister of the Economy, in the name of Himmler, during summer 1942, to deposit in favor of the SS, the gold and jewelry that will be brought to the bank, and for that purpose he was in contact with Puhl; Puhl and the bank personnel understood, at the start of the transfer of the gold, jewelry, foreign currency and (banking) securities by the SS men,...

File Number : 235

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : German

Testimonies by the Jewish Auschwitz survivors Otto Wolken and Hans-Peter Messerschmidt; Petition to the court by Bovensiepen's lawyer for his release, 1945, 1968

Testimonies by the Jewish Auschwitz survivors Otto Wolken and Hans-Peter Messerschmidt; Petition to the court by Bovensiepen's lawyer for his release, 1945, 1968 The file includes i.A.: - Petition (dated on 04/03/1945) of Dr Otto Wolken, a Jewish physican and Auschwitz survivor, to the "international public" in order to accuse Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and all other Nazi criminals of systematical murdering of "millions of Jews", detailed information on Auschwitz: pp 1-6 - Testimony of -above mentionend- Dr Otto Wolken in front of a Polish commision: Wolken, an Austrian social-democrate, was arrested...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter

Language : German

Protocols of discussions held with Germans, regarding concentration camps and the murder of Jews, 1945-1946

Protocols of discussions held with Germans, regarding concentration camps and the murder of Jews, 1945-1946 Translations to English of the text of discussions held with German soldiers and policemen, in most part senior officers, regarding their Nazi past; [collection of the material] in the context of the collection of Evidence for the Nuremberg Trials; - Discussion by a British officer with General Berger, Chef des Gefangenwesens (Supervisor for Matters Related to Imprisonment): Appointment of Berger as chief of the Wuerttemberg Police in 1933; his efforts for the release of political prisoners from...

File Number : 231

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Protocol

Language : English

Documentation of the Jewish community in Vienna regarding confiscation of property, deportations, forced labor and emigration, 1939-1942

Documentation of the Jewish community in Vienna regarding confiscation of property, deportations, forced labor and emigration, 1939-1942 - Anti-Jewish legislation; - Regulation No. 3 regarding the obligation to hand over jewelry [to the authorities]; easing of restrictions on basic items for personal use and for Mischlinge who are exempt from the obligation to turn in valuables; - German plan for a transfer of 450,000 Jews to the United States [?]; - Jewish community announcement regarding the drafting of able-bodied people, aged 18-50, and their deportation to settlement labor in Poland; guideline...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Orders by Arthur Liebehenschel and Oswald Pohl to camp commanders, regarding taking steps against hostile propaganda by Jehovah's Witnesses in camps and labor places, and the prevention of listening to enemy broadcasts

File Number : 440

Type of Material : Original Document, Official Documentation

Language : German

Official documentation regarding the training of camp guards, concerning their obligations

Official documentation regarding the training of camp guards, concerning their obligations Order by Oswald Pohl regarding the obligation of camp commanders to train the staff of guards, according to his obligations; orders by Arthur Liebehenschel and Maurer, regarding the matter; included are lists of rules for the camp guards.

File Number : 431

Type of Material : Original Document, Official Documentation

Language : German

Orders by Arthur Liebehenschel and Oswald Pohl to camp commanders, regarding the prevention of common activities between the SS guardsmen and inmates

Orders by Arthur Liebehenschel and Oswald Pohl to camp commanders, regarding the prevention of common activities between the SS guardsmen and inmates Activities of this kind enabled the murder of an SS man by inmates, in the past.

File Number : 423

Type of Material : Original Document, Official Documentation

Language : German

Official documentation regarding the increase of transports of "asocial" people and Poles to camps, people who must be detained, and decrease of the death rate in ammunition factories

Official documentation regarding the increase of transports of "asocial" people and Poles to camps, people who must be detained, and decrease of the death rate in ammunition factories Letter to Oswald Pohl, regarding the increase of transports of "asocial" people and Poles to camps, and people who must be detained; order by Gluecks regarding decreasing the death rate in ammunition factories by means of full utilization of the products (?).

File Number : 402

Type of Material : Original Document, Official Documentation

Language : German

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