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Letter to the SS chief in the Ukraine (Fruetzmann), ordering the depopulation and destruction of all resources in the Ukraine as the evacuation proceeds, leaving a "burnt and destroyed land"
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Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
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: 07 September 1943
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-7
Document Book No: Prosecution SS: rebuttal
HLSL Item No.: 451510
Notes:NO 7 (not necessarily this copy) was entered as UK exhibit 592 in the trial.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Destruction of cities, villages, houses, and farms (etc.), looting of prop…
Document Summary
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NO-7: Himmler directive dated 7 September 1943 addressed to Pruetzmann, the HSSPF for Ukraine and South Russia. Himmler states that Stapf had special orders re the Donetz region and urging all possible cooperation, so that, in the evacuation:
HIMMLER directive dated 7 September 43 to PRUETZMANN, the HSSPF for Ukraine and South Russia.