Main SS economic administration office Office group chief D
—concentration camps—D I/Az : 14 e 3/Ot/S;—
Oranienburg, 14 July 1943
Re: Beating of female prisoners
Ref: Reiehsfuehrer-SS B. Nz. 1/1891/41 Ads.Sk/Fe.—of 7 July 1943
Enclosures / none
REGISTERED
To the camp commandants of concentration camps, Au., Rav., Herz., Lub and Stutthof.
The Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of the German Police has ordered that the execution of sentence on Russian women has to be done by Polish women and on Polish and Ukrainian women by Russian women.
As a reward the prisoners inflicting the punishment may be given a few cigarettes.
Under no circumstances may German prisoners be employed to inflict punishment. Also other prisoners due for punishment themselves are not to be employed for this purpose.
per sig. Liebehenschel . SS—Obersturmbannfuehrer
Instructions to concentration camp commandants on corporal punishments of Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian women
Authors
Arthur Liebenhenschel (Inspectorate of concentration camps, Amtsgruppe D, WVHA, SS)
Arthur Liebehenschel
SS officer
- Born: 1901-11-25 (Poznań)
- Died: 1948-01-24 (Kraków)
- Country of citizenship: German Reich; Germany; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: concentration camp guard; military officer; tax consultant; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-02-01)
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Action 14f13
- Military rank: Obersturmbannführer
Date: 14 July 1943
Literal Title: Re: Beating of female prisoners
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-2187
HLSL Item No.: 6493
Notes:The instructions were ordered by Himmler.
Document Summary
PS-2187: Circular letter to Cos of Concentration Camps, re Corporal punishment for women inmates. Signature illegible