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Instructions to concentration camp commandants concerning the sale of hair cut from inmates, and the delivery of twine to Ravensbrueck
NMT 4
Authors
Gerhard Maurer (Office 2 (inmate labor) in Amtsgruppe D, WVHA; Waffen SS-Standartenfuehrer)
Gerhard Maurer
German military personnel; SS Chief and Inspector of Nazi concentration camps
- Born: 1907-12-09 (Halle (Saale))
- Died: 1953-04-02 (Kraków)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: accountant
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Pohl Trial (date: 1947-07-03; role: affiant); extrajudicial punishment
- Significant person: Johannes Baier (date: 1944-01-01; role: colleague); Oswald Pohl (role: superior); Richard Glücks (role: colleague)
Date: 04 January 1943
Literal Title: Subject: Use of hair cut from male prisoners.
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: PS-3680
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 152
Document Book No: Prosecution 5
Citations: NMT 4 (page 222), NMT 4 (page 615)
HLSL Item No.: 4052
Notes:The hair (4 Jan) was sold to the Alex Zink felt factory, and the money was paid to the Reich Treasury; the second memo (19 Apr) concerned twine.
Trial Issues
Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Plundering of private property and occupied territories (inc. Reinhardt Ac…
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-3680: Two copies of letters from the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office to various Concentral Camps among them Natzweiler, re utilization of hair, out off from male prisoners, and string for manufacturing