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Orders to Oswald Pohl and SS police officials for the transfer of all eastern Jews from ghettoes to SS concentration camps

NMT 4

Authors

Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)

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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: 21 June 1943

Defendant: Oswald Pohl

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NO-2403

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 505

Document Book No: Prosecution 20

Citation: NMT 4 (page 1081)

HLSL Item No.: 4434

Trial Issues

Deportation or expulsion of civilian populations from occupied territories… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Forced labor in concentration camps and SS labor units (IMT, NMT 4) Warsaw ghetto (IMT, NMT 4)

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NO-2403: 21 June 1943 - Himmler to the WVHA and others ordering the transfer of Jews from Ghetto to Concentration Camps. A Concentration Camp, near Riga is to be erected by the WVHA. Purpose of camp is to manufacture clothing and equipment for the Wehrmacht.