I, Colonel of the Police Dr. Rudolf Mildner, being first duly sworn, declare;
In 1941 I served in Kattowitz' (Upper-Silesia) where I had a < onversation with SS Sturmbannfuehrer Oskar Podlich, Leader of SD-Leitabschnitt Kattowitz. During the conversation I learned that the incidents on the German-Polish border in Upper-Silesia, which officially were used by the Germans for opening of the Polish campaign, were instigated on order by Heydrich and carried out by members of the SD in Beuthen, Hindenburg, and Gleiwitz.
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Among these incidents were, as far as I am able to remember, the attack on the German broadcasting station in Gleiwitz, and the attack on the German consulate in Kattowitz.
The SD members who participated in these incidents were said to have been decorated with the War Service Cross, Second Class.
. R. Mildner
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4 day of November 1945 in Nürnberg, Germany.
Whitney R. Harris Lieut., US. Naval Reserve
Affidavit concerning the staging by the SD (ordered by Heydrich) of the supposed Polish attack on Germans at the beginning of the war
Authors
Rudolf Mildner (Dr., police colonel; Security Police, Denmark, Vienna)
Rudolf Mildner
Chief of the Gestapo at Katowice
- Born: 1902-07-10 (Janov) (country: Austria-Hungary)
- Died: 2000-01-01
- Country of citizenship: Austria; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: jurist; police officer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Pohl Trial (date: 1945-06-22; role: affiant)
- Military rank: Standartenführer
Date: 04 November 1945
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2479
HLSL Item No.: 451619
Notes:This document was apparently not entered as evidence in the trial.
Document Summary
PS-2479: Affidavit by Colonel of the Police, Dr. Rudolf Wildner, subscribed and sworn before Lt. Whitney R. Harries, U.S. Naval Reserve