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Instructions for the transfer of 45000 Jews from the ghettoes to Auschwitz for labor
IMT
Authors
Heinrich Mueller (Chief of Gestapo, Reich Security Main Office)
Heinrich Mueller
German police official and head of the Gestapo (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-04-28 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-01 (Berlin) (sourcing circumstances: presumably)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; police officer; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel (series ordinal: 107043; since: 1934-04-20)
- Military rank: general
- Military branch: Imperial German Air Service; Reich Main Security Office
Date: 16 December 1942
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-1472
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 279
Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and SD
Citation: IMT (page 1939)
HLSL Item No.: 451581
Notes:Of the 45000, 10000 to 15000 would be fit for labor; the others would be handicapped, old, or children; the memo does not state what would be done with the latter.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Forced labor in concentration camps and SS labor units (IMT, NMT 4)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-1472: Top Secret telegram from RSHA, signed Mueller, to Himmler re: Recruitment of Jewish Labor in Concentration Camps
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-1472: Urgent and secret teletype from MÜller to Himmler, 16 December 1942, concerning the transportation of 45,000 Jews including children and aged persons and others unfit for work from Bialystok, teresin, Holland and Berlin to Auschwitz where labor is needed. it is expected that the selective process at Aus.chwitz will pass 10,000 to 15,000 of them fit for work