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Letters between Himmler and Pohl concerning the growth of the concentration camp system
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
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
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: 05 April 1944
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Codes: NO-20a , NO-20b
Citation: NMT 4 (page 156)
HLSL Item No.: 5304
Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by William Reitzer on 13 June 1946. Items: Pohl to Himmler, 5 Apr; Himmler to Pohl, 22 Apr 1944.