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Circular letter and order to senior SS and police officials, directing them not to intervene between German civilians and captured Allied airmen
IMT
Authors
Rudolf Emil H. Brandt (SS Obersturmbannfuehrer (Himmler's personal staff))
Rudolf Emil H. Brandt
German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)
- Born: 1909-06-02 (Frankfurt (Oder))
- Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer; stenographer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
- Member of: The Ahnenerbe
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Heinrich Himmler (role: adjutant)
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: 10 August 1943
Literal Title: To all Senior Executive SS- and Police Officers
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: R-110
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 333
Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and SD
Citations: IMT (page 1945), IMT (page 5286)
HLSL Item No.: 451645
Notes:Brandt wrote the letter circulating Himmler's decree (the name is mistyped as Brand). The order to not "interfere" meant that civilians would be allowed to kill Allied airmen who had been captured by the civilians. In the transcript, the document number is mis-stated as R 100.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Allied airmen, murder or mistreatment of (IMT, NMT 3)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
R-110: Secret Letter of Transmittal and attached Secret Order of Himmler re: Lynching of Anglo-American Airmen
Doc Book Tables of Contents
R-110: 1. Cover Letter, dated 10 August 1943, to the Higher SS and Police Leaders from Brand (Himmler's Personal Staff).
and the Gauleiters concerned.