. AFFIDAVIT
I, Otto Ohlendorf, being first duly sworn, declare:
Heydrich was chief of the Security Police and the SD (RSHA) until his death on June 4, 1942. Thereafter Himmler directed the organization himself, until the appointment of Ernst Kalten-brunner as chief of the Security Police and the SD. Kalten-brunner took this office about January 1943 and remained chief of the Security Police and SD until the end of the war.
In 1944 the office of the Abwehr and foreign intelligence service (military intelligence service) was subordinated to the chief of the SIPO and SD. After its subordination to the chief of the SIPO and the SD, this office under the name Militaerisches Amt, was directed by the chief of Amt VI of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt.
[signed] Otto Ohlendorf
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of November 1945 at Nürnberg, Germany.
[signed] Smith W. Brookhart, Jr.
Lt. Col. IGD
Affidavit concerning the chiefs of the security police and SD in RSHA (Heydrich, Himmler, Kaltenbrunner), and the subordinate military intelligence service
Authors
Otto Ohlendorf (commander of Einstazgruppe D; Chief of the Security Service (SD); SS)
Otto Ohlendorf
German SS-General
- Born: 1907-02-04 (Hoheneggelsen) (country: German Empire)
- Died: 1951-06-07 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: economist; jurist
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sicherheitsdienst (since: 1936-01-01); Sturmabteilung (since: 1925-01-01)
- Participant in: Einsatzgruppen Trial (role: defendant); Judges' Trial (date: 1947-03-23; role: affiant); Pohl Trial (date: 1945-11-05, 1946-01-03; role: affiant, witness)
- Significant person: Günther Joël
Date: 05 November 1945
Literal Title: Affidavit
Defendant: Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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-2644
HLSL Item No.: 451627
Notes:This document was apparently not entered as evidence.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Administration & organization (all cases)
Document Summary
PS-2644: Statement re positions of Heydrich, Himmler, Kaltenbrunner, and functions of Amt VI within RSHA