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Instructions to concentration camp commandants concerning the disposition of the ashes of deceased Czechs and Jews
NMT 4
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: 12 September 1942
Literal Title: Subject: Dispatch of urns of internees deceased in concentration camps.
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-1510
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 156
Document Book No: Prosecution 6
Citation: NMT 4 (page 223)
HLSL Item No.: 4058
Notes:The document does not indicate whether the dead inmates were the victims of mass executions or the extermination program.
Trial Issues
Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NO-1510: Order from [Illegible] to CC commanders dealing with Disposal of [Illegible] ashes of [Illegible] CC inmate
Doc Book Tables of Contents
NO-1510: 12 September 1942 - Liebehenschel letter to concentration camp Commanders stating that the ashes of Jews and Czechs will no longer be sent to their families for burial.