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Hitler's words regarding cooperation between Wehrmacht and SA were as follows: "The requirements of the Wehrmacht are to be taken into consideration in organization and training. "The Chief of Staff of the SA releases the required executionary directives in agreement with the Commander in Chief of the Wehrmacht units. ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - The Sturmabteilung (SA) | 10,350 | 10,850 |
drawn up in front of an SA building with SA officers and men in the Background. The picture is entitled- "Day after day the closed formations of the Wehrmacht march in Wurzburg to the subscription places of the SA for Thanksgiving to the nation in order to announce its close relation with the SA, and to express thanks ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - The Sturmabteilung (SA) | 10,800 | 11,300 |
military policy, upon the character of the coming war and upon the modern national defense." D. Participation of the SA in Warfare. It would be natural in view of the above quotation, to expect the SA to have been used as a striking force in the first steps of the aggressive warfare launched by Germany, and as a basis ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - The Sturmabteilung (SA) | 11,250 | 11,750 |
Free Corps had a strength of 40,000 men. Part of the equipment furnished to Heinlein, mostly haversacks, cooking utensils and blankets, were supplied by the SA." (3036-PS) The adaptability of the SA to whatever purpose was required of it is demonstrated by its activities subsequent to the outbreak of the war. During th... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - The Sturmabteilung (SA) | 11,700 | 12,200 |
my dear Communists! So you won't draw any false conclusions by the struggle to the death in which my fist will grasp your necks, I shall lead with those down there. Those are the Brown Shirts." (1856-PS) The importance of the SA under Goering in the early stages of the Nazi movement is shown by a letter written to Goer... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - The Sturmabteilung (SA) | 12,150 | 12,650 |
Law to insure the unity of Party and State, 1 December 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p.1016. (GB 252)............. III 978 *1721-PS Confidential report of SA Brigadefuehrer, November 1938, concerning destruction of Jewish property. (USA 524)............. IV 214 1725-PS Decree enforcing law for securing the unit... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - The Sturmabteilung (SA) | 12,600 | 13,100 |
USA 417; USA 418) (Referred to but not offered in evidence.)........... V 777 *3054-PS "The Nazi Plan", script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167).......... V 801 *3211-PS Goebbels to the SA, 17 October 1935, from The Archive, Vol. 19, October 1935, p.939. (USA 419)....... V 928 3212-PS Exce... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - The Sturmabteilung (SA) | 13,050 | 13,501 |
Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume 2 Chapter XV Part 5 Chapter XV... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 0 | 500 |
was that apparatus. Like the SA, it was one of the seven components or formations of the Nazi Party referred to in the Decree on enforcement of the Law for Securing the Unity of Party and State of 29 March 1935 (1725-PS). But its status was above that of the other formations. As the plans of the conspirators progressed... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 450 | 950 |
the Reichsfuehrer SS, Heinrich Himmler. Its author was the editor of the official SS publication "Das Schwarze Korps". The second publication is an article by Himmler, entitled "Organization and Obligations of the SS and the Police." It was published in 1937 in a booklet containing a series of speeches or essays by imp... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 900 | 1,400 |
"Missions "The most original and most eminent duty of the SS is to serve as the protector of the Fuehrer. "By order of the Fuehrer its sphere of duties has been amplified to include the internal security of the Reich." (2640-PS) This new mission-protecting the internal security of the regime-was somewhat more colorfull... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 1,350 | 1,850 |
beneath them. Other departments have not been so broken down. It is not intended to indicate that there were not subdivisions of these latter departments as well. The breakdown is shown only in those cases where the constituent offices of some department may have a particular significance in this case. These department... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 1,800 | 2,300 |
they participated in the colonization and resettlement program. In short, the term "SS" normally meant the General SS. It was organized on military lines as will be seen from the chart (Chart Number 3), ranging from district and subdistrict down through the regiment, battalion, and company, to the platoon. Until after ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 2,250 | 2,750 |
companies, are too likely to discuss everyday problems." (1992-A-PS) Although, as Himmler put it, the SD was only the intelligence service of the SS during the years preceding the accession of the Nazis to power, it became a much more important organization promptly thereafter. It had been developed into such a powerfu... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 2,700 | 3,200 |
two branches of the SS composed of fulltime, professional, well-trained soldiers: the so-called SS Verfuegungstruppe, translatable perhaps as "SS Emergency Troops"; and the SS Totenkopf Verbaende, the "Death Head Units." After the beginning of the war, the units of the SS Verfuegungstruppe were brought up to division s... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 3,150 | 3,650 |
force was employed with the Army for aggressive purposes-the taking over of the Sudetenland. Following this action, feverish preparations to motorize the force and to organize new units, such as antitank, machine gun, and reconnaissance battalions were undertaken pursuant to further directives of the Fuehrer. By Septem... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 3,600 | 4,100 |
main offices of the SS Supreme Command. Ideologically and racially its members were selected in conformity with SS standards, as shown by the recruiting standards of the Waffen SS published in the SS manual, "The Soldier Friend" (2825-PS). A section of that manual entitled "The Way to the Waffen SS," reads: "Today at l... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 4,050 | 4,550 |
Operational headquarters (SS Fuehrungshauptamt)-the fifth box from the left-contains the Command Headquarters of the Waffen SS (Chart Number 3). The functions of this department are thus defined in the SS Manual, "The Soldier Friend": "In the Fuerhungshauptamt the command office of the Waffen SS handles tasks of milita... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 4,500 | 5,000 |
to these laws and realizes that one part cannot exist without the other-you are unimaginable without the General SS, and the latter is not imaginable without you. The police is not imaginable without the SS, nor are we imaginable without this executive branch of the state which is in our hands." (1918-PS) (d) The Toten... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 4,950 | 5,450 |
former members of the police-police officials, as they used to be called. The average age in our police battalions is not lower than that of the security battalions of the Armed Forces. Their achievements are beyond all praise. In addition, we have formed Police Rifle Regiments by merging the police battalions of the '... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 5,400 | 5,900 |
time." (1919-PS) C. Selection, Training, and Obligations of Members. To understand this organization, the theories upon which it was based must be kept clearly in mind. The underlying philosophy of the SS, the principles by which its members were selected, and the obligations imposed upon them furnish the key to all it... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 5,850 | 6,350 |
"The conception of the value of the blood and soil serves as directive for the selection into the SS. Every SS man must be deeply imbued with the sense and essence of the National Socialist Movement. He will be ideologically and physically trained so that he can be employed individually or in groups in the decisive bat... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 6,300 | 6,800 |
far that we will attract all Nordic blood in the world, take away the blood from our adversaries, absorb it so that never again, looking at it from the viewpoint of grand policy, Nordic blood in great quantities and to an extent worth mentioning will fight against us. We must get it and the others cannot have it. We ne... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 6,750 | 7,250 |
it may perhaps be considered an infraction of necessary social standards and conventions, German women and girls of good blood can fulfill a high obligation by bearing children out of wedlock to soldiers going to the front, whose eventual return or death for Germany lies entirely in the hands of fate-not out of promisc... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 7,200 | 7,700 |
speech delivered at Kharkov in April 1943, Himmler declared: "We have-I would say, as very consistent national Socialists-taken the question of blood as our starting point. We were the first really to solve the problem of blood by action, and in this connection by problem of blood, we of course do not mean antisemitism... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 7,650 | 8,150 |
the young fellow of 17 or 18 who comes to us, and with many who are in our ranks not as volunteers but as conscripts. I ask you to look after them, and guide them, and not let them go before they are really saturated with our spirit and are fighting as the old guard fought before us-that is what i request and demand of... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 8,100 | 8,600 |
the Elite and Voluntary Character of the SS. The role which the SS was to play required that it remain constantly the essence of Naziism, and that its elite Nazi quality never be diluted. For this reason the SS was for a time temporarily closed to new members, and those who had proved unfit were weeded out. Himmler des... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 8,550 | 9,050 |
months he takes the oath on the Fuehrer and thus becomes a candidate (Anwaerter). As a candidate during the first year he takes examinations for his SA sport insignia and his bronze sport insignia. At the age of 19 or 19½, according to the time of his acceptance, he is conscripted for the labor service and subsequentl... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 9,000 | 9,500 |
the Nazi State but outside the law. In an affidavit signed and sworn to in Nurnberg on 19 November 1945, Wilhelm Frick says, referring to the victims of that purge: "They were just killed on the spot. Many people were killed- I don't know how many-who actually did not have anything to do with the putsch. People who jus... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 9,450 | 9,950 |
to this post with the title of "Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police in the Ministry of the Interior." The combination of these two positions, that of leadership of the SS and head of all the police forces in the Reich, was no accident but was intended to establish a permanent relation between the two bodies... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 9,900 | 10,400 |
Book of the NSDAP for 1943: "The RSHA handles all the organizational, personnel, management and technical affairs of the Security Police and the SD. In addition, it is the central office of the State police and criminal police executive, as well as the central directorate of the intelligence net of the SD." (2640-PS) T... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 10,350 | 10,850 |
are described in Himmler's article, "Organization and Obligations of the SS and the Police" (1992-A-PS). They are also described in an authoritative book on the police and on the SS, entitled "The German Police," written by Dr. Werner Best, a Ministerial Director in the Ministry of the Interior and a department head in... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 10,800 | 11,300 |
whole work just like the fact that you can carry arms". (1918-PS) Through the police the SS was in a position to carry out a large part of the functions assigned to it. The working partnership between Gestapo, the criminal police, and the SD, under the direction of the Reichsfuehrer SS, resulted in the ultimate in repr... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 11,250 | 11,750 |
of the camps. Himmler bluntly explained to the Wehrmacht in 1937 the prevailing view of the SS as to the inmates of concentration camps: "It would be extremely instructive for everyone, some members of the Wehrmacht were already able to do so, to inspect such a concentration camp. Once they have seen it, they are convi... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 11,700 | 12,200 |
1 June 1933, relates to the death of Dr. Alfred Strauss, a prisoner in protective custody in Dachau. That report states: "On May 24, 1933 the 30 year old, single, attorney at law, Dr. Alfred Strauss from Munich who was in the concentration camp Dachau as a prisoner under protective custody was killed by 2 pistol shots ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 12,150 | 12,650 |
from a distance less than 1 meter. Meanwhile the legal-medical institute ascertained that the distance was less than 30 cm." (642-PS) The third (644-PS) 22 May 1933, relates to the death of Louis Schloss, an inmate of Dachau. Attached to the letter is a copy of a report of the autopsy conducted in the Schloss case, sig... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 12,600 | 13,100 |
appointed by the Superior Court, doubted that death had occurred to excessive bleeding and in identified marks of strings on the victim's neck, a judicial autopsy was arranged by the State Attorney on May 29, 1933. The resulting opinion of the expert is so far: I) The autopsy discloses that excessive bleeding due to a ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 13,050 | 13,550 |
year. Himmler has promised me that such a decree will be issued and will grant us participation in the preliminary work." (781-PS) The memorandum bears the pencil notation, "Initiative with Himmler". Subsequent events showed how Himmler carried out this initiative. (b) Administration of concentration camps through SS a... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 13,500 | 14,000 |
on 5 August 1943, ordered the collection of men, women, and children for work in coal mines (744-PS). This directive implements an order signed by Keitel directing the use of all males captured in guerilla fighting in the East for forced labor (744-PS). The Himmler directive, it will be noted, is addressed to every mai... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 13,950 | 14,450 |
made at the 58th discussion of the Central Planning Board on 25 May 1944 (R-124): "Speer: We have come to an arrangement with the Reichsfuehrer SS as soon as possible so that PW's he picks up are made available for our purposes. The Reichsfuehrer SS gets from 30 to 40 thousand men per month." (R-124) Finally, in order ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 14,400 | 14,900 |
the fact that in enlarging our responsibility thru a speeding up of the total work, better results can definitely be expected. "We also have for some time adjusted our own stone-quarries to production for the airforce. For instance in Flossenbuerg near Weiden the prisoners employed previously in the quarry are working ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 14,850 | 15,350 |
France approx............. 15,000-20,000 "Most of the prisoners are already on the way and will be received into the Concentration Camps within the next few days." (1166-PS) (d) SS control of concentration camps and the ill treatment and murder of inmates. The intensive drive for manpower to some extent interfered with... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 15,300 | 15,800 |
WVHA. An illustration of WVHA management is to be found in an order directed to commandants of concentration camps, 11 August 1942, and issued by SS Brigade Fuehrer and General of the Waffen SS Gluecks, Chief of Office Group D of WVHA (2189-PS): "The Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police has ordered, that pun... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 15,750 | 16,250 |
the prerequisite for a healthy and social basis of the entire SS as well as of the entire Fuehrercorps can be carried out only when I get the money for it from somewhere; nobody is going to give me the money, it must be earned, and it will be earned by forcing the scum of mankind, the prisoners, the professional crimin... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 16,200 | 16,700 |
(determined by the somewhat higher ceiling of the English fighter planes) considerable regret was expressed at the fact that no tests with human material had yet been possible for us, as such experiments are very dangerous and nobody volunteers for them. I put, therefore, the serious question: can you make available tw... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 16,650 | 17,150 |
experiments. It is urgently needed at another place and therefore can no longer remain in Dachau. "I convey the special thanks from the supreme commander of the Air Corps to the SS for their extensive cooperation. "I remain with best wishes for you in good comradeship and with "Heil Hitler! "Always yours "s/s E. Milch"... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 17,100 | 17,600 |
they formulate a danger of contagion. * * *" (1583-PS) To insure the continuance of Rascher's experiments, Himmler arranged for his transfer to the Waffen SS. A letter dated November 1942 from the Reichsfuehrer SS addressed to "Dear Comrade Milch," stated: "You will recall that through General Wolff I particularly reco... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 17,550 | 18,050 |
may be mentioned. That is a report prepared by the Chief Hygienist in the office of the Reich Surgeon of the SS and Police, SS Oberfuehrer Dr. Mrugowsky, 12 September 1944, relating to experiments with poisoned bullets. "On 11 September 1944, in the presence of SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Dr. Ding, Dr. Widman and the undersign... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 18,000 | 18,500 |
material through WVHA. A letter from the Department Chief of Office Group D of WVHA, 12 May 1944, addressed to the commandants of all concentration camps dealt with the assignment of prisoners for the experimental purposes: "There is cause to call attention to the fact that in every case permission for assignment has t... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 18,450 | 18,950 |
(002-PS) An interview between the Reich Surgeon and Mentzel took place, and on 25 March 1943 Mentzel wrote the following letter to the Reich Minister of Finance: "In regard to your correspondence of the 19th Dec (J 4761-174 I g III. Ang) to which I gave you a preliminary communication on the 19th Feb, I finally take th... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 18,900 | 19,400 |
is vested with the organs of the State Police-inasmuch as the inspectors of the Security Police are not issuing their own orders. In order to carry out the measures of the Security Police, officials of the Criminal Police, as well as members of the SD, of the Verfuegungstruppe and the Allgemeine SS may be used." (3051-... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 19,350 | 19,850 |
Two sections of that report dealing with the constitution of the participating forces should be noted. A table of the units used indicates the average number of officers and men from each unit employed per day. It will be observed that among the units involved were the staff of the SS and Police Leader, two battalions ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 19,800 | 20,300 |
the requirement for compulsory military service by performing duties in the SS. These were the SS Vorfuegungstruppe and the Death Head Units. (b) The SS as a fifth column agency. While building up the SS as a military force within Germany, the conspirators also utilized it in other countries to lay the groundwork for a... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 20,250 | 20,750 |
here above all the Eastern Prussian SS, which played a prominent part in the liberation of this province." (2164-PS) In the final act which set off the war, the attack on Poland in September 1939, the SS acted as stage manager. In his affidavit (Affidavit A), Maj. gen. Erwin Lahousen describes the simulated attack on t... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 20,700 | 21,200 |
and army, out of which the antipartisan units were formed, is illustrated in the "Activity and Situation Report No. 6 of the Task Forces of the Security Police and SD in the U. S. S. R.," covering the period from 1 to 31 October 1941 (R-102). The report shows that so-called "antipartisan" activity was actually nothing ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 21,150 | 21,650 |
the period covered by this report executed 63 officials, NKVD agents and agitators." (R-102) The preceding subsection ends with the following statement: "The liquidations for the period covered by this report have reached a total of 37, 180 persons." (R-102) And under the section headed "Ukraine," the subsection "Jews,... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 21,600 | 22,100 |
5,000 German dead ...................................................... 59" "The figures mentioned above indicate that again a heavy destruction of the population must be expected. If only 492 rifles are taken from 4,500 enemy dead, this discrepancy shows that among these enemy dead were numerous peasants from the cou... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 22,050 | 22,550 |
12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Jugend) in Normandy, France, on 7-21 June 1944 (2997-PS). The Court of Inquiry concluded that there occurred in Normandy, between 7 and 17 June 1944, seven cases of violations of the law of war, involving the shooting of 64 unarmed allied prisoners of war in uniform, many of whom had bee... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 22,500 | 23,000 |
upon his appointment on 7 October 1939 as Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Folkdom. (686-PS) To make and carry out plans for the program of evacuation and resettlement, a new department of the SS Supreme Command, the staff Headquarters of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Folkdom,... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 22,950 | 23,450 |
Settlement in the SS Supreme Command until 1943. This affidavit, taken at Freising, Germany, on 4 August 1945 reads as follows: "* * * 2. The executive power, in other words the carrying out of all so-called resettlement actions, that is to say, sending away of Polish and Jewish settlers and those of non German blood f... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 23,400 | 23,900 |
repopulated the conquered regions with so-called racial Germans. Thousands upon thousands of these Germans were transported from all parts of Europe to join the greater Reich. Not all Germans were deemed reliable colonists, however. Those who were not, were returned to Germany proper for "re-Germanization" and "reeduca... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 23,850 | 24,350 |
a rule. The resettler is passed through 8 to 9 offices, following each other in organic order: registration office, card-index office, certificate and photo-office, property office, and biological hereditary and sanitary test office. The latter was entrusted to doctors and medical personnel of the SS and of the Armed F... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 24,300 | 24,800 |
clear. As an organization founded on the principle that persons of "German blood" were a "master race," it exemplified a basic Nazi doctrine. It served as one of the means through which the conspirators acquired control of the German government. The operations of the SD, and of the SS Totenkopf Verbaende in concentrati... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 24,750 | 25,250 |
to some Waffen SS unit has no bearing on the issue before the tribunal, which is this, whether the SS was or was not an unlawful organization. Doubtless some of the members of the SS, or of other of the organizations alleged to be unlawful, might desire to show that their participation in the organization was small or ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 25,200 | 25,700 |
. . . . . . . . . . III 5 *058-PS Hitler Order of 30 September 1944 concerning reorganization of the concerns of prisoners of war. (USA 456). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III 103 *343-PS Letter from Milch, Chief of the Personal Staff, to Himmler, 31 August 1942, and letter from Milch to Wolff, 20 May 1942. (USA 46... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 25,650 | 26,150 |
. . . III 540 *778-PS Disciplinary and Penal Measures for Concentration Camp Dachau and Service Regulations for the Camp Personnel, signed Eicke, 1 October 1933. (USA 247). . . . III 550 781-PS Memorandum by Minister of Justice, Guertner, of conference with Himmler, 9 March 1936, concerning issuance of decree on use of... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 26,100 | 26,600 |
experiments in high altitude flights. (USA 454) . . . . . . . . . . . . . IV 132 1616-PS Letter from Dr. Rascher to Himmler, 17 February 1943, concerning freezing experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iv 133 *1617-PS Letter from Himmler to General Field Marshal Milch, 13 November 1642, concerning transfer of ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 26,550 | 27,050 |
of Gross Rosen Camp from Department 10 of WVHA, 27 April 1943, providing that "Action 14 F 13" be applied only to insane. (USA 459).........................IV 581 *1972-PS Letter from Chief of SS Operations Headquarters to Himmler, 14 October 1941, reporting on executions of Czechs by Waffen SS. (USA 471)................. | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 27,000 | 27,500 |
from Heydrich to all stations of State Police, 10 November 1938, on measures against Jews, and one order from Heydrich on termination of protest actions. (USA 240).........................V 797 *3059-PS German Foreign Office memorandum, 19 August 1938, on payments to HenleinÂs Sudeten German Party. between 1935 and 19... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 27,450 | 27,950 |
1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 814). . . . . . . . . . . . . VII 210 *D-748 Affidavit of karl Totzauer, 15 March 1946, concerning SS personnel supervising concentration camps. (USA 816). . . . . . . . . . . . . VII 211 *D-749-B Statement of Rudolf Hoess, 20 March 1946, concerning SS... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 27,900 | 28,400 |
Affidavit of Erwin Lahousen, 21 January 1946, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 30 November and 1 December 1945.........................VIII 587 Affidavit B Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 20 November 1945, substantially the same as his tes... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 5 - The Schutzstaffeln (SS) | 28,350 | 28,631 |
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independent branch of the Administration of the Interior, responsible directly to Goering as Prussian Prime Minister. This decree gave the GESTAPO jurisdiction over the political police matters of the general and interior administration and provided that the district, county, and local police authorities were subject t... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 450 | 950 |
GESTAPO were to be considered direct officials of the Reich and their salaries, in addition to the operational expenses of the whole State Police, were to be borne from 1 April 1937 on by the Reich. (2243-PS) Through the above laws and decrees the GESTAPO was established as a uniform political police system operating t... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 900 | 1,400 |
of the Reich cabinet as Chief of the German Police. (2073-PS) On 26 June 1936 Himmler issued a decree providing for the appointment of a chief of the uniformed police and of a chief of the Security Police. This decree divided the German police system into two principal branches: (a) Ordnungspolizei (ORPO or Regular Pol... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 1,350 | 1,850 |
remained Chief of the Security Police and SD (RSHA) until the end of the war. (2644-PS) B. Organization of the Gestapo and the SD. B. Organization of the Gestapo and the SD. (1) Organization of the Gestapo (Amt IV of the RSHA). The headquarters organization of the GESTAPO (Amt IV of the RSHA) was set up on a functional... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 1,800 | 2,300 |
offices reported directly to the RSHA in Berlin but were subject to the supervision of Inspekteurs of the Security Police in the various provinces. The inspectors were expected to foster cooperation between the Security Police and the central offices of the general and interior administration. (2245-PS) In the occupied... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 2,250 | 2,750 |
the Security Police and SD who reported to the Chief of the Security Police and SD (RSHA) in Berlin. (1680-PS, L-361) (3) Combined Organization of the GESTAPO and SD. The central offices of the GESTAPO and SD were coordinated in 1936 with the appointment of Heydrich, the head of the SD, as chief of the Security Police.... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 2,700 | 3,200 |
the Security Police and SD but also the Inspekteurs of the Order Police and Various subdivisions of the SS. (1285-PS) In the occupied territories the organization developed as the German armies advanced. Combined operational units of the Security Police and SD, known as Einsatz Groups, operated with and in the rear of ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 3,150 | 3,650 |
(1723-PS) In Das Archiv, January 1036, the duties of the GESTAPO were described in part as follows: "Since the National Socialist revolution, all open struggle and all open opposition to the State and to the leadership of the State is forbidden, and a Secret State Police as a preventive instrument in the struggle again... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 3,600 | 4,100 |
GESTAPO to act outside the law, the Nazi jurist, Dr. Werner Best, states: "It is no longer a question of law but a question of fate whether the will of the leadership lays down the 'right' rules, i.e., rules feasible and necessary for police action-the 'police' law suitable for and beneficial to the people. Actual misu... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 4,050 | 4,550 |
of freedom, which is covered in the form of protective custody, if it is to be feared that the free activity of the persons in question might endanger the security of the State in any way. While protective arrest of short duration is carried out in police and court prisons, the concentration camps under the Secret Stat... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 4,500 | 5,000 |
churches, and all other spheres of German life, operating under cover, and reporting any utterances or actions against the Nazi Party, State or leadership. (2614-PS) The SD had direct and powerful influence in the selection of Nazi leaders. It investigated the loyalty and reliability of State officials, evaluating them... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 4,950 | 5,450 |
was the principal means for eliminating enemies of the Nazi regime. Diels, the former Deputy Chief of the GESTAPO under Goering, declared: "* * * From (1934) on the GESTAPO is responsible for all deprivations of freedom and breaches of law and killings in the political field which took place without court verdict. of p... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 5,400 | 5,900 |
out by personnel of the GESTAPO rather than of the SD or of the KRIPO. In occupied territories members of the GESTAPO frequently wore SS uniforms. (3033-PS) The term "Chef of the Security Police and SD" describes the person who is the head of the GESTAPO, KRIPO and the SD, and of their headquarters office called the RS... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 5,850 | 6,350 |
be given gunshot wounds. After the incident members of the press and other persons were to be taken to the spot of the incident. A police report was subsequently to be prepared. "4. Mueller told me that he had an order from Heydrich to make one of those criminals available to me for the action at Gleiwitz. The code nam... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 6,300 | 6,800 |
Chief of the SIPO and SD in Paris. Einsatz Group D, operating in the south of Russia, was placed under the command of Ohlendorf, the Chief of Amt III (SD) of the RSHA. The Einsatz Groups were officered by personnel of the GESTAPO, the SD and the KRIPO. The men were drawn from the Order Police and the Waffen SS. The gro... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 6,750 | 7,250 |
by the eyewitness account of two such mass murders witnessed by Hermann Graebe, who was manager and engineer in charge of the branch office of the Solingen firm of Josef Jung in Sdolbunow, Ukraine, from September 1941 until January 1944. Graebe's interest in the mass executions derived from the fact that in addition to... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 7,200 | 7,700 |
not be forced with crowbars or beams, these houses were now blown open with hand grenades. Since the ghetto was near the railroad tracks in Rowno, the younger people tried to get across the tracks and to a small river to be outside of the ghetto. This sector being outside of the floodlights was lighted by signal ammuni... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 7,650 | 8,150 |
An old woman with snow-white hair held the one-year-old child in her arms and sang for it, and tickled it. The child was squeaking from joy. The couple looked on with tears in their eyes. The father held the hand of a boy about 10 years old and spoke to him softly; the boy was fighting his tears. The father pointed tow... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 8,100 | 8,600 |
I left with Moennikes and drove with my car back to Dubno." (2992-PS) There are two reports by Stahlecker, the Chief of Einsatz Group B, available. The first report, found in Himmler's personal files, states that during the first four months of the Russian campaign Einsatz Group A murdered 135,000 Communists and Jews, ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 8,550 | 9,050 |
in part: "Only by the SIPO and SD were the Jews gradually executed as they became no longer required for work. today there are no longer any Jews in Esthonia." With respect to Latvia, the report states in Part: "Up to October 1941 approximately 30,000 Jews had been executed by these Sonderkommandos. The remaining Jews ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 9,000 | 9,500 |
report, was 228,050. On 30 October 1941 the Commissioner of the territory of Sluzk wrote a report to the Commissioner General, Minsk, in which the severely criticized the actions of the Einsatzkommandos operating in his area for the murder of all the Jews of Sluzk: "On 27 October in the morning at about 8 o'clock a fir... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 9,450 | 9,950 |
against the Jews any more. It rather looked like a revolution. In conclusion I find myself obliged to point out that the police battalion has looted in an unheard of manner during the action, and that not only in Jewish houses but just the same in those of the White Ruthenians. Anything of use such as boots, leather, c... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 9,900 | 10,400 |
SD (Hauptscharfuehrer Rube) on 13 April 1943. Since that date, the golden bridgework, crowns and fillings of the received German and Russian Jews were pulled out, respectively broken out by force. This always happened 1-2 hours before the actions in question. "Since 13 April 1943, 516 German and Russian Jews were liqui... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 10,350 | 10,850 |
place of execution. First the van has to be brought to that place, which is possible only in good weather. The place of execution is usually 10-15 km away from the highways and is difficult of access because of its location; in damp or wet weather it is not accessible at all. If the persons to be executed are driven or... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 10,800 | 11,300 |
the same time I request the shipment of 20 gas-hoses for the three S-vans on hand (2 Diamond, 1 Saurer), since the ones on hand are leaky already." (501-PS) The reports of the various Einsatz Groups were summarized at RSHA, and the summaries were then distributed to the various sections interested, particularly Amt III... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 11,250 | 11,750 |
action is still in progress. After completion of this action there will remain only 500 Jewesses and children in the Eastern territory. * * *" (R-102) With respect to partisan activity in White Ruthenia, the report states in part: "* * * In the village Michalowo, after careful reconnaissance through civilian agents, 8 ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 11,700 | 12,200 |
had sabotaged orders issued by the German occupation authorities. "In Talka 222 Jews were shot for anti-German propaganda and in Marina Gorka 996 Jews were shot because they had sabotaged orders issued by the German occupation authorities. "At Schklow 627 more Jews were shot because they had participated in acts of sab... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 12,150 | 12,650 |
of the RSHA, brought general knowledge to the entire organization of the program of mass murder conducted by these special task forces of the SIPO and SD. (R-102) The activities of the Einsatz Groups continued throughout 1943 and 1944 under Kaltenbrunner as Chief of the SIPO and SD. New groups were formed and sent into... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 6 - The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | 12,600 | 13,100 |
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