Affidavit concerning the transfer of 50000 to 60000 Warsaw Poles to German concentration camps in 1944, and Kaltenbrunner's refusal to return them since they were employed in making weapons

I, Ministerialdirektor Josef Buehler, Dr. Jur. in custody since the 30th May 1945, State Secretary to Governor General Dr. Hans Frank, in the General Government (Poland) from 1940-1945, herewith declare on oath,
During the suppression of the Warsaw Rising of 1944, about 50,000-60,000 inhabitants of Warsaw (Polish estimate) were transported away to German Concentration Camps. As a result of a demarche by General Governor Dr. Frank to Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, the latter forbade further deportations. The Governor General attempted to obtain the release of the 50,000-60,000 inhabitants of Warsaw who had been put into Concentration Camps in the Reich, before deportation was stopped. The Chief of RSHA, Obergruppenfuehrer Kaltenbrunner, had refused this in writing and also refused my verbal efforts when I personally visited him in Berlin, in September or October 1944, on the grounds that those inhabitants of Warsaw were employed making
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secret weapons for the Reich and, therefore, there was no question of a general release. Single requests he was willing to investigate. Kaltenbrunner had subsequently complied with individual requests for release from a concentration camp. As opposed to the Polish estimate, Kaltenbrunner gave the number of inhabitants of Warsaw transported into Concentration Camps in the Reich as small. I made Kaltenbrunner's statement regarding the number brought into custody accessible to my appropriate office and after renewed investigations I received confirmation that the number was 50,000-60,000. These were the people who had been brought into concentration camps in Germany.
Dr. Josef Buehler
Signed and sworn before me on 4 November 1945 in Nürnberg, Germany.
WHITNEY R. HARRIS. Lt. USNR