December 28th, 1945
AFFIDAVIT
Sidney Mendel, Doctor of Law, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that, until the end of 1938, he was a member of the Berlin bar and admitted as attorney-at-law to the German courts. His . legal residence is now 85-20 Elmhurst Avenue, Elmhurst, L. I., State of New York.
In his capacity as attorney he handled numerous concentration camp cases in the years 1933 to 1938. He remembers distinctly that, in the years of 1934 and 1935, he approached in several cases Frick's Reichs Ministry of the Interior as the agency superior to the Gestapo for the release of concentration camp inmates. Frick's ministry had special control functions over concentration camps.
The deponent further states that he informed the ministry about illegal arrests, beatings, tortures and mistreatment of inmates. But the ministry declined the release and upheld the decisions of the Gestapo.
The deponent is able and willing to testify to these facts as a witness under oath.
[signed] Sidney Mendel.
Subscribed and sworn to before me at New York City, State of New York, this 28th day of December, 1945.
STATE OF NEW YORK
SS
County of New York J Mary K. Costello,
Notary Public, King's County.
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Affidavit concerning efforts to secure the release of concentration camp inmates, and the Ministry of the Interior's support of the Gestapo
Authors
Sidney Mendel (lawyer, Berlin (to 1938); New York (1945))
Sidney Mendel
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 28 December 1945
Literal Title: Affidavit
Defendant: Wilhelm Frick
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-3601
HLSL Item No.: 452107
Document Summary
PS-3601: Signed and sworn affidavit of Sidney [Illegible] re; Concentration Camps, and Frick's Ministry of the Interior
PS-3601: Affidavit of former German attorney sidney Mendel, 28 December 1945: German Ministry of the interior under Frick refused intervention in cases of illegal arrest and torture of concentration camp inmates when these cases were reported by Mendel in the years 1933 and 1934
PS-3601: Report of the U.S. Military Attache in Berlin, dated 5 April 1939, dealing with the occupation of Czechoslovakia.