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Instructions to concentration camp commandants concerning the ethnic ("racial") selection of prisoners
NMT 4
Authors
Richard Gluecks (Inspector of concentration camps; Chief of Amtsgruppe D in WVHA, SS; SS Gruppenf.)
Richard Gluecks
German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps
- Born: 1889-04-22 (Mönchengladbach)
- Died: 1945-05-10 (Flensburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Military rank: Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
Date: 17 November 1943
Literal Title: Concerning: Racial examination of the concentration-camp inmates.
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-1452
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 174
Document Book No: Prosecution 6
Citation: NMT 4 (page 229)
HLSL Item No.: 4076
Notes:The selection "re-Germanization" of some inmates and "special treatment" (execution) of others.
Trial Issues
Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Execution or murder of civilians and prisoners of war (inc. "special treat…
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NO-1452: An order of the Chief of SS-Economic and Administrative Department (WVHA) SS-Gruf. Gluecks addressed to the commanders of Concentration Camps and to the chiefs of subdivisions of Office D of the WVHA. Concerning racial examinations of inmates of concentration camps
Doc Book Tables of Contents
NO-1452: 17 November 1943 .. Gluecks order concerning racial examination of inmates for the purpose of selecting these (1) for naturalization and (2) for "special treatment".
17. Nov.1943-Order from the WHA to the C.C.commandante to facilitate racial examinations of inmates by RuSHA representatives