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Instructions to concentration camp commandants concerning the treatment of prisoners sent from France

NMT 4

Authors

Arthur Liebenhenschel (Inspectorate of concentration camps, Amtsgruppe D, WVHA, SS)

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Arthur Liebehenschel

SS officer

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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: 06 July 1943

Literal Title: Subject: Action Meerschaum (Sea foam)

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NO-1243

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 159

Document Book No: Prosecution 6

Citation: NMT 4 (page 223)

HLSL Item No.: 4061

Notes:"Meerschaum" was apparently an arrest-and-detention operation that was less severe than the Night-and-Fog program.

Trial Issues

Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Imprisonment in concentration camps and SS labor camps (IMT, NMT 4) Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

NO-1243: Liebehenschel letter re: Action Meerschaum

Doc Book Tables of Contents

NO-1243: 6 July 1943 - Liebehenschel directive forbidden death notices to relatives of deceased inmates from "Action Meerschaum".

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