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Instructions to concentration camp commandants concerning corporal punishment of prisoners, who are to be beaten by other prisoners
IMT
Authors
Richard Gluecks (Inspector of concentration camps; Chief of Amtsgruppe D in WVHA, SS; SS Gruppenf.)
Richard Gluecks
German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps
- Born: 1889-04-22 (Mönchengladbach)
- Died: 1945-05-10 (Flensburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Military rank: Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA, 1942-45) (or predecessor office)
Date: 11 August 1942
Literal Title: Re: Punishment by Beating.
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-2189
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 460
Document Book No: Prosecution Z: SS
Citation: IMT (page 1845)
HLSL Item No.: 451458
Notes:By Pohl's order male prisoners were to be beaten by other prisoners in their camps; Himmler had already ordered that female prisoners be beaten by other prisoners in camps for women. German prisoners were not to be punished by non-Germans.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)…
Document Summary
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-2189: Letter from the Ss economic-administrative main office, 11 August 1942, to the commandants of 13 concentration camps and the pow camp Lublin: in concentration camps—in those for women as well as in those for men—corporal punishment is to be inflicted by internees
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-2189: 11 October 1942 - Letter from the Chief of Amtsgruppe D to Concentration Camp Commanders regarding Pohl order concerning punishment of prisoners by beating.