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Memorandum to Oswald Pohl concerning the establishment of a concentration camp in the Warsaw ghetto and the later transfer to Lublin

NMT 4

Authors

Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)

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Heinrich Himmler

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)

Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)

Date: 16 February 1943

Defendant: Oswald Pohl

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NO-2514

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 500

Document Book No: Prosecution 20

Citation: NMT 4 (page 1077)

HLSL Item No.: 4429

Notes:The memo summarizes the orders given to Krueger in January (NO 1882). According to the trial transcript and the Staff Evidence Analysis of NO 2514, the date typed on this copy, 2 February, is an error for 16 February 1943.

Trial Issues

Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Warsaw ghetto (IMT, NMT 4)

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

NO-2514: Copy of an order classified secret, signed by H. Himmler and addressed to WVHA- Chief SS-Ogruf. Pohl re: Establish-ment of a Concentration Camp in the Warsaw Ghetto

Doc Book Tables of Contents

NO-2514: 1 February 1943 - Himmler to Pohl regarding the establishment of a Concentration Camp in the Warsaw Ghetto. All Warsaw Jews shall be interned here, also all private enterprises located in the Warsaw Ghetto will be transferred to the Concentration Camp. Copy to Krueger and Brandt.