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Instructions to concentration camp commandants concerning the ethnic ("racial") selection of prisoners
Authors
Richard Gluecks (Inspector of concentration camps; Chief of Amtsgruppe D in WVHA, SS; SS Gruppenf.)
Richard Gluecks
German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps
- Born: 1889-04-22 (Mönchengladbach)
- Died: 1945-05-10 (Flensburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Military rank: Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
Date: 17 November 1943
Literal Title: Betreff: Rassiche Ueberpruefung von Haeftlingen in den Konzentrationslagern.
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: German
Evidence Code: NO-1452
Citation: NMT 4 (page 229)
HLSL Item No.: 5825
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NO-1452: An order of the Chief of SS-Economic and Administrative Department (WVHA) SS-Gruf. Gluecks addressed to the commanders of Concentration Camps and to the chiefs of subdivisions of Office D of the WVHA. Concerning racial examinations of inmates of concentration camps
Doc Book Tables of Contents
NO-1452: 17 November 1943 .. Gluecks order concerning racial examination of inmates for the purpose of selecting these (1) for naturalization and (2) for "special treatment".
17. Nov.1943-Order from the WHA to the C.C.commandante to facilitate racial examinations of inmates by RuSHA representatives