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Report to Himmler concerning security measures at Auschwitz, including affiliated labor camps, with Himmler's reply
Authors
Oswald Pohl (Chief of WVHA (SS Econ. and Admin. Main Office); Lt. General Waffen SS)
Oswald Pohl
German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)
- Born: 1892-06-30 (Duisburg)
- Died: 1951-06-07 1951-06-08 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant); Operation Reinhard; Pohl Trial (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Rudolf Emil H. Brandt (SS Obersturmbannfuehrer (Himmler's personal staff))
Rudolf Emil H. Brandt
German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)
- Born: 1909-06-02 (Frankfurt (Oder))
- Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer; stenographer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
- Member of: The Ahnenerbe
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Heinrich Himmler (role: adjutant)
Date: 05 April 1944
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NI-317
Citation: NMT 4 (page 643)
HLSL Item No.: 5255
Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by Tibor Schonfeld on 3 July 1946.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NI-317: Letter of Pohl, Chief of the Main Economic Administrative Office to Himmler: report on security measures in the Auschwitz concentration camp and on figures of Auschwitz inmates working for the IG Farben Industrie AG and other industrial plants in Upper
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NI-317: Letter of 5 Apr. 1944 from SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl to Reichsfuehrer Himmler describing the three concentration camps in Auschwitz:
"The largest of these labor camps is in Auschwitz attached to the I.G. Farbenindustrie A. G. . . . Apart from the direct security of Camp I and II by manned watch towers and by electrically chargeable wire fences, a line of bunkers has been constructed as an inner ring which will be manned by SS men . . . . . As a further security measure, the outer ring will be formed to be manned by the Wehrmacht . . . . Inside the outer ring is also the labor camp at I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. with at present 3,000 inmates and the entire factory of the I.G. Farbenindustrie A. G. in which, in addition to our inmates, 15,000 people are employed Further it has been taken care that a large scale search be carried out under the direction of the Kripoletitstelle (criminal police) Kattowitz in case of mass escapes."
Letter of 5 Apr. 1944 from SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl to Reichsfuehrer Himmler describing the three concentration camps in Auschwitz
"The largest of these labor camps is in Auschwitz attached to the I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G..... Apart from the direct security of Camp I and II by manned watch towers and by electrically chargeable wire fences, a line of bunkers has been constructed as an inner ring which will be manned by SS men. .... As a further security measure, the outer ring will be formed to be manned by the Wehrmacht .... Inside the outer ring is also the labor camp at I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. with at present 7,000 inmates and the entire factory of the I.G. Farbenindustrie A. G. in which, in addition to our inmates, approximately 15,000 people are employed. ... Further it has been taken care that a large scale search be carried out under the direction of the Kripoleitstelle (criminal police) Kattowitz in case of mass escapes."