[1.] Public Prosecution at the Provincial Court
Munich II. Munich, the 2 June 1933.
To the State Ministry of Justice.
Subject: Deaths of prisoners in ' protective custody at the concentration camp of Dachau.
In accordance with my instructions, I had a lengthy discussion on the 1 June 1933 with the Police Commander Himmler in his office at the Police H.Q. Munich about the incident at the concentration camp Dachau, which I have already reported to the Ministry of Justice separately; in particular, I told him briefly, with the aid of the photographs from the investigation files, about the Schloss, Hausmann, Strauss and Nefzger cases of which he appeared to have been advised already. I pointed out that particularly the four abovementioned cases—in view of the result of the findings to date—offer good reason for cogent suspicion of serious punishable actions on the part of individual members of the camp guard and of camp officials, and that both the Public Prosecution and the Police authorities to whose knowledge these incidents have come are under the obligation, under the threat of heavy punishment, to carry out the criminal investigation of the abovementioned incidents without consideration for any persons whatsoever; I requested the Police Commander Himmler to assist me in this task as much as possible. I stated that I was arranging for a preliminary legal investigation to be proposed and carried out with regard to the four cases mentioned, and that I would apply for a legal warrant of arrest—because of the danger of things being hushed up—against the persons who were cogently suspected of punishable participation in these cases. I declared further that I would employ the only officials suitable for the further necessary investigations, namely, those of the Criminal Department of the Police H.Q. Munich.
At my request the Police Commander Himmler agreed to issue an order to the effect that no difficulties were to be put in the path of myself and the examining magistrate during the investi-D-926
gation in the camp of Dachau, and that all requested information was to be given; he also stated that he had naturally no objections to my other intentions regarding the investigation of the individual cases.
The Oberstaatsanwelt [Provincial Court Public Prosecutor] [Signed] Wintersberger.
[2.] Public Prosecution at the Provincial Court,
Munich II. Munich, 11 August 1933.
To the State Ministry of Justice,
Munich.
Subject: Deaths at the concentration camp of Dachau.
Pursuant to telephone instructions, four dossiers of the Public Prosecution, Munich II, regarding the deaths at the concentration camp of Dachau of the prisoners Schloss, Hausmann, Dr. Strauss and Nefzgar, who were in protective custody, (G 851, 924, ff 33, G 866/33, G 927/33, G 928 ff/33) were sent to the State Ministry of Justice on 2.6.1933. Should the dossiers not be required at present, I would request the return of these files for the purpose of examining whether the decree of 2.8.1933 regarding the granting of immunity from punishment has to be applied.
For the Oberstaatsanwalt [Provincial Court Public Prosecutor]
Dr. Wintrich.
3. [In handwriting]
By order of the Ministry of the Interior A.C.
For the attention of Ministerialdirektor Gareis or his representative.
Sent on 23 August 1933.
Subject: Application of the decree of 2.8.33, regarding the granting of immunity from punishment.
The four dossiers were handed to the Minister of the Interior for decision on 21 June 1933. I request their return in the near future for the purpose of applying the decree granting immunity from punishment.
By order Spangenberg.
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I. Dr. Wendler of the Political Police, in whose possession the dossiers are, promised immediate return of the dossiers today on the occasion of a personal discussion on another matter.
M. 23.9.33. Doebig
By order, Widmann Signed, Lechner.
II Spoke personally with Oberfuehrer Heydrich on 9.10.1933. He will endeavour to procure the dossiers.
Doebig.
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State Ministry of the Interior
The Commander of the Political Police.
1 enclosure. Munich, 6.10.33.
To the State Ministry of Justice,
Munich.
No receipt of the four dossiers is recorded here. In spite of thorough investigation, nothing could be found out about the location of the dossiers. I shall, however, continue the inquiries and communicate immediately if the occasion arises.
By order
[Signed] Heydrich
[Handwritten notes]
Dossiers reported on various occasions with the Political Police Offices, who have promised that they will be received by the Ministry of the Interior.
26.5.34.
Stepp
1. Reported the matter to the Minister. Submit again, in two months. 25.9.34.
Doebig
Landesgerichtsrat Dr. Stepp has been requested to arrange for inquiries to continue, and to report about their result.
20.1.1935.
Doebig
The matter was discussed with the OSTW [Provincial Court Public Prosecutor] at the Provincial Court Munich II. He will endeavour to procure the return of the missing dossiers with the
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help of Landesgerichtsrat Dr. Stepp who has been appointed Chief of the Bavarian Political Police in the meantime.
Munichv 18 January 1935.
Doebig.
[Docs. 5-8
Two letters from the Public Prosecutor, Provincial Court, Munich II and two affidavits re the death of Hugo Handschuch, a prisoner in protective custody, at Dachau camp, (recapitulation in Doc. 10).]
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Gestapo—Regional State Police H.Q. Duesseldorf.
Received: 17th May 1943
Berlin Nue 89 911 17.5.43 11,45 Tess-To:
the Regional Commanders of the Security Police and of the
S.D. Oslo, the Hague, Paris and
the Commissioner of the Security Police and of the SD Brussels.
the Regional and Subregional State Police H.Q.s Kiel, Schwerin, Stettin, Koeslin, Schneidemuehl, Frankfort/Oder, Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden, Leipzig, Weimar, Magdeburg, Halle, Brunswick, Kassel, Frankfort/Main, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Dortmund, Muenster, Hannover, Wilhelmshaven and Bremen, Hamburg.— -Subject: Dispatch of prisoners in protective custody to the concentration camp Neuengamme.
Previous correspondence: none.
In order to prevent unnecessary transport detours, I request that in future only the concentration camp of Neuengamme be given as the destination of transports of prisoners in protective custody who are to be sent to the concentration camp of Neuengamme, and not the Regional State Police H.Q. Hamburg and such like, and that the form accompanying the transport be filled in accordingly. The passing of these transports through the Police prisons of the Subregional HQ. Hamburg is not practicable owing to the continuous crowding of these police prisons and in view
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of the tense, air situation and only produces a considerable amount of extra work.
I request therefore that this practice be desisted from in future. Additional note for the Subregional H.Q, Hamburg. Your letter of 28.4. 1943 II D —433/43 is thus dealt with.
' RSHA Berlin IV C 2
General Ho. 43 133 By order: [sgd.] : Dr. Berndorff SS.-Obersturmbannfuehrer
II L—D 10/1 Diary No. 216/43
Duesseldorf, the 18th May 1943
1. ) It is not necessary to pass this order to the subordinate offices, as the sending of transports is the responsibility of the local protective custody office.
2. ) II D in this building '
sent for information and observance.
3. ) File under II L-D 10/1
[signature illegible]
[10.]
No. 67 GF
URGENT AND SECRET.
To be dispatched by special messenger, under double cover.
I. To the Prime Minister.
Subject: Quashing of Criminal Proceedings.
A merchant's wife, Sophie Handschuch, of Munich, in a written statement received by the Public Prosecution at the Provincial Court, Munich II, on the 18th September 1933, stated that her son, Hugo Handschuch, taken into protective custody on the 23rd August 1923, died of heart failure in Dachau camp on the 2nd September 1933. In the inquest certificate, heart failure following on the concussion of the brain was given as the cause of death. The body was not shown to the relatives and was handed over only after great difficulties and on condition that the coffin would not be reopened. The coffin was so firmly nailed down that it was impossible to reopen it. The writer asked that the coffin be opened and a judicial post mortem held, as she wanted the body identified and the cause of death established.
In order to clear up the state of affairs, the Provincial Court
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Public Prosecutor at the Provincial Court, Munich II, at first personally questioned the plaintiff, Sophie Handsehueh, and the fiancee of the deceased, Thea Kink. From their evidence, the assumption seemed justified that already on the day of his arrest Handsehueh was badly physically maltreated in the Braunhaus in Munich, and in connection with the further established fact that the relatives of the dead man were expressly refused permission to view the body, sufficient grounds were given for the suspicion that Handsehueh did not die a natural death. In order to establish the cause of death without any doubts, the body was exhumed in Dachau on the 23rd September 1933, and a judicial autopsy carried out on the orders of the Provincial Court Public Prosecutor. It showed that death was caused by injury to the brain as a result of hemorrhage of the soft membrane of the brain and that these hemorrhages originated from blows with a blunt object which hit the skull particularly in the region of the left temple and that of the back of the head. In addition, extensive bleeding was established in the region of the left cheek, the right shoulder and the left upper arm of the corpse, in the regions of the seat, the thigh, and on the lower part of the left thigh, as a result of blows with a blunt instrument on the body of the deceased while still alive. The findings of the judicial autopsy gave grounds for assuming outside responsibility.
The Public Prosecution has requested that the Bavarian Political Police undertake the necessary enquiries.
II
In the forenoon of the 19th October, the Public Prosecution at the Provincial Court, Munich II, was informed by telephone by the Bavarian Political Police that in the afternoon of the 17th October 1933, Wilhelm Franz, of Munich, a prisoner in protective custody, born on the 5th June 1909, and, on the night of the 17th-18th October 1933, Dr. Delvin Katz, of Nürnberg, a prisoner in protective custody, born on the 3rd August 1887, hanged themselves in their military confinement cells in Dachau concentration camp. The Public Prosecution ordered the same morning a legal examination to be held in the camp, followed by a post mortem. The corpses were in a locked camp shed lying on stretchers, and with the exception of the feet were totally undressed. In Franz's cell, fresh blood spots and splashes were observed on the wooden plank bed. It was established in Katz's cell that the chain mechanism for opening the window was broken off in part and replaced by a cord. In consequence of the examination and the post-mortem, a judicial autopsy was carried out
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on both corpses on the 20th October 1933. With the consent of the officiating judge, the autopsy was witnessed by the camp doctor, Dr. Meixner, and the camp adjutant, Dr. Scheingraber.
The autopsy gave grounds suspecting, in both corpses, force by an outside hand. According to preliminary opinion of both law court doctors provincial Court doctor Dr. Flamm and Court doctor Dr. Niedenthal, death by suffocation as a result of strangulation and throttling was established in both cases. The strangulation marks found on the neck do not correspond to observations in the case of persons hanged. In respect of Franz's body, it is also stated in the preliminary opinion that fat embolism is not prima-facie to be excluded as a contributing cause of death. Fresh weals on the head covered with hair as well as particularly numerous ones on the body and on the arms, with extensive bleeding and destruction of the fatty tissues were established on this corpse. Apart from injuries on the neck, also Katz's body showed various signs of drying up and rubbing off of the skin off the head and one separation of the skin.
At the time of the examination already, the Public Prosecution had demanded the production of both belts with which Franz and Katz had allegedly hanged themselves; they could not be handed over at once. The Dachau lower Court had ordered the confiscation of the belts in accordance with the application. Up till now the objects confiscated had not yet been received by the Public Prosecution.
Ill
In each case I informed the Prime Minister and, through him the Eeich Governor in Bavaria, as well as the State Minister of the Interior of the Public Prosecution's reports on the cases quoted in I and II.
In a letter of the 29th November 1933 addressed to me, the State Minister of the Interior proposed that, for State political reasons, the inquiry pending at the Public Prosecution of the Provincial Court, Munich II, into the death of Hugo Handschuch, Wilhelm Franz and Dr. Delvin Katz prisoners in protective custody should be quashed. As a reason it is pointed out that the conducting of investigations would ca.use great harm to the prestige of the National Socialist State, since these proceedings would be directed against members of the SA and SS and thus the SA and SS as the chief protagonists of the National Socialist State would be immediately affected.
I permit myself to state on the legal side of the proposal that according to Para. I sub-para. 1, No. 5 of the law re Reich gov-
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ernors of the 7th April 1933 in the version of the laws of the 25th April and 26th May 1933 (RGB1. I, p. 225, 293) the Reich governor has the right of pardoning. The right of pardoning in the sense of the law re Reich governors embraces the right both of remitting an individual penalty and of quashing individual proceedings, pending so far as the right of pardoning is an administrative act according to the constitution of the province and not a legislative act. I therefore beg to refer to the enclosed copy of a letter from the Reich Minister of the Interior of the 4th September No. IB 1-15/11.8. The constitutional deed of the Free State of Bavaria of the 14th August 1919 forbade the quashing of criminal investigations. The law re the quashing of criminal investigations of the 2nd August 1933 (GVB1. p. 211) removed the ban on quashing. According to the Bavarian provincial law at present valid,- the legal possibility therefore exists of quashing individual criminal proceedings by means of an administrative act in the form of a pardon. According to the law re Reich governors this right is vested exclusively in the Reich governor in Bavaria.
In view of this legal position, I beg you to submit the proposal of the State Minister of the Interior to the Council of Ministers and to place it on the agenda of the next meeting of the Council of Ministers; I presume that the State Minister of the Interior will himself present the proposal in the Council of Ministers.
I beg you to forward the enclosed copy to the Reich Governor in Bavaria. The State Ministers and State secretaries have received copies.
II To the State Minister of the Interior with reference to letter of the 29. 11. 1933.
I have the honour of sending you as an enclosure a copy of my letter to the Prime Minister for your notice.
Munich, the 2nd December 1933.
[sgd] Dr. H. Franck.
III A copy of I together with one copy of the letter of the Reich Minister of the Interior of the 4. 9. 1933 is to be forwarded to the other State Ministers and State secretaries for their notice.
IV To be resubmitted in Ref 11.
[Sgd] Spangenberger
Degen Doebig.
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[11. Proposal made by the Minister of the Interior to quash the inquiry into the deaths of the protective custody prisoners Handschuch, Franz and Katz]
Munich, 29th Nov. 1933 The Bavarian State Minister of the Interior
To the State Minister of Justice, Munich Munich,
Dear Party comrade and State Minister, Dr. Frank,
The Commander of the Political Police in the Ministry of the Interior presented to you on the 18th Nov 1933 a proposal according to which the inquiry into the cases of the prisoners in protective custody, Hugo Handschuch, Wilhelm Franz and Delvin Katz should be quashed for state political reasons.' In connection with this case, you sent to me the liaison man of the State Ministry of Justice with the Bavarian Political Police, Public Prosecutor Dr. Stepp. Meanwhile, in a discussion with the commander of the Political Police Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, I have ascertained once more that to carry out this inquiry would cause considerable damage to the reputation of the National Socialist State, because this inquiry would be directed against members of the SA and SS and thus the SA and the SS, as the main props of the National Socialist State would be directly affected. For these reasons I support the proposal for quashing the inquiry presented to you on the 18th Nov 1933 by the Commander of the Political Police in the State Ministry of the Interior.
According to what the Commander of the Political Police, Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, tells me, he also had a long talk with you concerning this case. The Council of Ministers has already discussed the matter. The outcome was that the Ministry of Justice sent a representative to the Political Police. I hope firmly that these are the last cases which will force the Governor and the Council of Ministers to intervene in the interests of the State.
I made a clear statement to the organs of the Political Police to the effect that in future I could no longer express my willingness to make a proposal for quashing inquiries in similar cases. On the other hand, I do not deny the absolute necessity for giving the supervisory organs in the concentration camp the authority which would enable them, in cases either of actual attacks or of opposition or serious breaches of concentration camp discipline, to intervene by the immediate use of firearms or by shooting according to martial law. This is the only possible way to maintain absolute
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order in the concentration camp which, as is well known contains almost exclusively criminal types.
I would be very grateful, dear Minister of Justice, if you would express your opinion.
Heil Hitler
[signed] : Adolf Wagner.
Copy to:
1) The Prime Minister.
2) The commander of the Bavarian Political Police.
[12. Concerning DACHAU concentration camp.]
I. Note
The proposal of the State Minister of the Interior that the inquiry pending ,at the public prosecution at the Provincial Court Munich II, into the death of the prisoners Handschuch, Franz and Katz who were in protective custody be quashed was the subject of a debate during the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the 5th Dec 1933. As a result, the State Minister of Justice communicated the following to the undersigned official:
The criminal proceedings regarding the happenings in the Dachau concentration camp are to be continued with all determination. The facts are to be cleared up with the utmost speed. If necessary the provincial police are to be brought in to help. Any attempts to hush up the case must be opposed by the means laid down. '
The Provincial Court public prosecutor at the Provincial Court, Munich II, was instructed, in accordance with the decision of the Council of Ministers, to continue the proceedings immediately and with all energy and to bring about the clearing up of the incidents as soon as possible. He will apply for Court investigations and see to their being completed rapidly, in the case of Franz and Katz immediately, and in the case of Handschuch after the arrival of the files from the political police, who have been requested to return them. He (the public prosecutor) has been instructed to keep the State Ministry of Justice informed about the course of the proceedings and to produce the files with an attached report about the result of the investigation and with the intended further action in the case, after the completion of the investigation. The public prosecutor at the Court of Appeal in Munich has been notified and instructed that he also for his part, is to pay particular attention to the proceedings. The preliminary investigations will probably be conducted by Provincial Court Counsellor Kissner, the district of Dachau being his sphere of competence.
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The liaison man with the Political Police, 1st public prosecutor Stepp, was instructed, according to orders, to communicate the decision of the Council of Ministers to the commander of the Political Police Himmler and to the chief of the Bavarian Political Police.
[signed] M.
II. Presented to the State Ministers:
with the request that he take note. The note of the 1st public prosecutor, Dr. Stepp, regarding the carrying out of his instructions is attached with the request that note be taken.
Munich, the 6th Dec. 1933
Doebig.
By order of Ministerial Counsellor Doebig, I communicated to the Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, the decision taken yesterday by the Council of Ministers concerning the cases of Handschuch etc. The Reichsfuehrer SS told me that the matter greatly concerned the chief of staif of the SA, Reich Minister Roehm. He (Himmler) had to discuss the matter with the latter first. He asked me to drive with him to the office of the Reich Governor to hedr his views after a discussion with the Chief of Staff. I waited in the anteroom of the Chief of Staff until Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler asked me to go with him to the Chief of Staff. The Chief of Staff Roehm asked me then to communicate on his behalf his reply to the State Minister of Justice, which at the request of Ministerial Counsellor Doebig, I am writing down from memory:
The Dachau camp is a camp for prisoners who are in protective custody and who were imprisoned on political grounds. The incidents concerned are of a political nature and under all circumstances the political authorities must decide first about them. To my mind they are not suited to be dealt with by the legal authorities. This is my opinion as Chief of Staff and also as a Reich Minister who is interested in the Reich not suffering politically because of the proceedings in question.
I shall get the Reichsfuehrer SS to issue an order that no investigating authorities may enter the camp for the time being and that people in the camp may also not be interrogated for the time being. Tomorrow I shall discuss the matter with the Fuehrer and ask him for his decision.
Munich, the 6th Dec 1933 [signed] Dr. Walther Stepp.
[Handwritten note]
1. The Court of Appeal Public Prosecution Munich, was in-D-926
structed by a directive from the Minister to refrain for the time being from making an application for the opening of preliminary investigations.
Munich, the 7th Dec 1933 [sgd] : Doebig.
[13.]
The Public Prosecution at the Provincial Court, Munich II.
Munich, the 30th July 1934
To the Court of Appeal Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal. Munich.
Subject: Death of the prisoners in protective custody Wilhelm Franz and Dr Katz in the Dachau camp.
With regard to the above mentioned matter, I have as instructed, requested the Bavarian Political Police by letter of
12. 7. 1934 to clear up the matter further in conjunction with the Commandant's office of the concentration camp of Dachau, and to endeavour to find out the persons who are suspected of having been the culprits. In this request I mentioned also that I have not yet received the legally confiscated instruments of suicide (belt and braces) of the dead men.
The Political Police have apparently transmitted the files without any written directions to the Political Department of the Concentration camp of Dachau the latter has returned the files to the Political Police accompanied by a letter of 25. 7. 1934. the first paragraph of this letter reads:
"The latest application for production of evidence from the Public Prosecution Munich II shows what far-fetched means are employed in order to saddle the concentration camp of Dachau with allegedly perpetrated crimes."
In the second paragraph of the letter regret is expressed that the two dead men were able by their suicide to escape impending punishment for smuggling letters. The third paragraph refers to the confiscation and reads:
"After the two corpses had been dissected according to law and had been released, the commandant's staff had no further interest in the preservation of the instruments with which they had hanged themselves. The commandant's staff do not belong to those objectionable Kulturmenscher [cultural people] who preserve such articles as souvenirs, as was done in America recently in the Dillinger case."
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The letter is signed on behalf of the camp commandant by SS. Obersturmbannfuehrer Leppert. '
The Bavarian Political Police sent me the dossiers on 27. 7. 1934 together with this letter from camp commandant's office without further comment. Neither the Political Police nor the camp commandant's staff appear inclined to carry out further suitable investigations in the matter in question as requested by me. I therefore regard it as necessary that the required instructions be issued to the Bavarian Political Police and to the camp commandant's office by a higher authority, if it is intended to carry out further investigations on'the matter, as these authorities are not likely to carry out any requests from the Public Prosecutor, Munich.
Apart from this, I regard it also as urgently necessary in the interests of the administration of justice—in view of the most recent decree of the Reich Chancellor and Reich Minister of Justice—that the required action be taken by a higher authority regarding the outrageous allegations against the Public Prosecution, Munich II, which were made in the letter of the camp commandant's office. Personally I do not wish to apply for proceedings for insult.
The Oberstaatsamwalt [signed] Wintersberger.
Submitted to the State Ministry of Justice together with 5 more copies and files.
With regard to the allegations of the Deputy camp commandant, Obersturmbannfuehrer Lippert, in his letter of 25. 7. 1934, I beg to draw attention to the enclosed file G2138/33 of the Public Prosecution at the Provincial Court, Munich II which shows that the request of the Oberstaatsamwalt—sheet 19 of the file— arose from the impartial observance of his official duty.
Munich, 31st July 1934 .
The Generalstaatsamwalt at the Court of Appeal [Court of Appeal Public Prosecutor]
[signed] Lotrer.
[Handwritten note]
1. The matter was reported to the Minister.
The letter in question was withdrawn by the camp of Dachau.
2. To Ministerrat (Ministerial Counsellor) Doebig
Munich 7. 9. 1934.
Stepp.
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[14.]
Public Prosecution at the Provincial Court Munich II
Munich the 27th September 1934
To the Generalstaatsumwalt (Court of Appeal Public Prosecutor) at the Court of Appeal Munich.
Subject: Death of the prisoners in protective custody
Wilhelm Franz and Dr. Katz in the concentration camp of Dachau.
I have stopped the proceedings, as the investigations have not produced sufficient grounds for the assumption of outside guilt in the deaths of the two prisoners in protective custody.
The Oberstaatsumwalt
Dr. Barnickel.
Reports and records of the investigation of crimes by guards and officials at Dachau, the government's grant of immunity and obstruction of the investigation, reports on several prisoners who were killed, and the quashing of the investigation "for state political reasons"
Authors
Karl Wintersberger (Dr., prosecutor, district and state courts, Munich)
Karl Wintersberger
German judge
- Born: 1880-01-01 (Eggenfelden)
- Died: 2000-01-01
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge
- Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party
- Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/455150085862915060004
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-455150085862915060004
Wintrich (Dr., prosecutor, Munich (1933))
Wintrich
- Additional details not yet available.
Spangenberg (Ministry of the Interior (1933))
Spangenberg
- Additional details not yet available.
Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of Security Police (SIPO) and Security Service (SD))
Reinhardt Heydrich
Most Horrible German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
- Born: 1904-03-07 (Halle (Saale))
- Died: 1942-06-04 (Prague)
- Country of citizenship: German Reich
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; fencer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Schutzstaffel (series ordinal: 10120)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer; SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
Unknown (None)
Unknown
- Additional details not yet available.
Adolf Wagner (Minister of the Interior, Bavaria)
Adolf Wagner
German politician (1890-1944)
- Born: 1890-10-01 (Algrange) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Alsace-Lorraine, Bezirk Lothringen)
- Died: 1944-04-12 (Bad Reichenhall)
- Country of citizenship: German Reich
- Occupation: military officer; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Aachener Burschenschaft Teutonia; Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Walther Stepp (Dr., prosecutor; judge, Court of Appeals, Munich)
Walther Stepp
German judge and jurist (1898-1972)
- Born: 1898-02-10 (Konken)
- Died: 1972-02-01 (Fürstenfeldbruck)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1930-10-01)
- Member of: Schutzstaffel (series ordinal: 36224; since: 1933-11-09); Sturmabteilung (since: 1931-01-01)
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-06-30; role: affiant)
- Significant person: Josef Altstötter (role: colleague); Paul Barnickel (role: colleague)
Hans Frank (Chief of Legal Office, NSDAP; Governor General of Poland)
Hans Frank
German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900-1946)
- Born: 1900-05-23 (Karlsruhe)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Nuremberg Court Prison) (reason for deprecated rank: item/value with less precision and/or accuracy; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (since: 1919-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung; Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
- Significant person: John C. Woods (role: executioner)
Date: 02 June 1933
Literal Title: Subject: Deaths of prisoners in protective custody at the concentration camp of Dachau
Total Pages: 12
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: D-926
HLSL Item No.: 451490
Notes:D 926 (not necessarily this copy) was entered as UK exhibit 568. Not all of the notations (with author and date) are recorded here. The final report in this copy, dated 30 July 1934, was written by Wintersberger (the final page of the document is apparently missing).