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Instructions to concentration camp commandants concerning the use of clergymen as workers

NMT 4

Authors

Gerhard Maurer (Office 2 (inmate labor) in Amtsgruppe D, WVHA; Waffen SS-Standartenfuehrer)

Born: 1907-12-09 (Halle (Saale))
Died: 1953-04-02 (Kraków)
Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
Occupation: accountant
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Member of: Schutzstaffel
Participant in: Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Pohl Trial (date: 1947-07-03; role: affiant); extrajudicial punishment
Significant person: Johannes Baier (date: 1944-01-01; role: colleague); Oswald Pohl (role: superior); Richard Glücks (role: colleague)

Date: 01 May 1942

Literal Title: Subject: Assignment of Clergymen

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NO-604

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 325

Document Book No: Prosecution 12

Citation: NMT 4 (page 596)

HLSL Item No.: 4232

Notes:Western European clergymen were assigned to garden work at Dachau; eastern European priests were kept in their current camps.

Staff Evidence Analyses

NO-604: Circular letter from SS-Ostubaf, Maurer to all concentration camps on employment of concentration camp prisoners we are clergyman

Doc Book Tables of Contents

NO-604: 1 May 42 - Chief of Amt D II to the Commanders of various concentration camps re assignment of clergymen.