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Instructions to Oswald Pohl and the SS security police for the clean-up of the site of the former Warsaw ghetto

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: 11 June 1943

Defendant: Oswald Pohl

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NO-2496

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 504

Document Book No: Prosecution 20

Citation: NMT 4 (page 1080)

HLSL Item No.: 4433

Trial Issue

Warsaw ghetto (IMT, NMT 4)

Document Summary

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NO-2496: 11 June 1943 - Himmler circular to Pohl and Chief of SIPO SD directing the establishment of a Concentration Camp in Dzikeng prison Warsaw. Inmates to be used in salvaging debris. The HSSPF "East" and the SSPF Warsaw re to assure complete destruction of the Ghetto.