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Instructions to concentration camp commandants conveying Himmler's order that clergymen are to be assigned work

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Authors

Arthur Liebenhenschel (Inspectorate of concentration camps, Amtsgruppe D, WVHA, SS)

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Arthur Liebehenschel

SS officer

Born: 1901-11-25 (Poznań)
Died: 1948-01-24 (Kraków)
Country of citizenship: German Reich; Germany; Nazi Germany
Occupation: concentration camp guard; military officer; tax consultant; torturer
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-02-01)
Member of: Schutzstaffel
Participant in: Action 14f13
Military rank: Obersturmbannführer

Date: 21 April 1942

Literal Title: Subject: Labor mobilization of clergy.

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: PS-1164

Document Book No: Prosecution H

Citation: IMT (page 255)

HLSL Item No.: 450438

Notes:Polish and Lithuanian priests could be assigned to any labor; German, Dutch, Norwegian, and other clergymen were to be assigned to medicinal herb garden work.

Trial Issues

Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

PS-1164: Secret letter from SS, Economic Administrative Head Office, to Commanders of all Concentration Camps

Red Series Doc Descriptions

PS-1164: Secret communication of the Ss-economic-administra-tive main office, 21 April 1942, to the commanders of 13 concentration camps and the prisoner-of-war camp, Lublin: in compliance with Himmler’s order, Polish and Lithuanian clergy are to be employed on all kinds of labor, German, Dutch, and Norwegian clergymen on gardening only

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PS-1164: 21 April 42 - Circular letter from Amtsgruppe D to Commandants of Concentration camps stating that Polish and Lithuanian priests are to work fully for all kinds of work. German, Dutch and Norwegian Clergymen.