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Affidavit submitted by Kurt Lindow, the Referat (head supervisor) over the IVA1 section in the Gestapo in 1945, regarding the part taken by the Gestapo in the murder of Soviet POWs

Affidavit submitted by Kurt Lindow, the Referat (head supervisor) over the IVA1 section in the Gestapo in 1945, regarding the part taken by the Gestapo in the murder of Soviet POWs The main function of the Referat was the persecution of Communists and Marxists; inclusion of the matter of the Soviet POWs in the function of the Referat in 1941, over whom Franz Koenigshaus was responsible; knowledge by Lindow concerning Himmler's order to execute Jews and Soviet commissars who were located among the Soviet POWs; preparation of the orders on the matter, by Koenigshaus; signing of the orders by Mueller, the head...

File Number : 71

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : German