GESTAPO, GESTAPO OFFICE PRAG, 2 Dec. 44 -Page 24556—
PROTECTIVE CUSTODY DECREE
IV A 6b
First and last name:
Birth day and place:
Profession:
Family status:
Citizenship:
Religion:
Race (to be noted for Non-Aryans) : Place and address:
Selderyk, Thomas 22 Feb 19 at Rotterdam Assistant locksmith Single Netherlands
Butzbach, Wetzlarerstr. nr. 115
will be taken into protective custody.
Reasons: Work sabotage.
Signed: Dr. Kaltenbrunner certified [illegible] SS-Obersturm-fuehrer
Protective custody opened, [illegible] [official stamp]
GESTAPO, GESTAPO OFFICE PRAG, 2 Dec. 44—IV A 61^-custody nr. 33523—
PROTECTIVE First and last name:
Birth day and place: Profession:
Family status:
Citizenship:
Religion:
CUSTODY DECREE
Meriadec, Jacques
10 Aug 16 at Paris
Commercial employee
single
France
Catholic
305
2580-PS
Race (to be noted for Non-Aryans):
Place and address: Ober-Hitlersklingen,
c-o Thomasberger
will be taken into protective custody.
Reasons: Work sabotage and insubordination.
Signed: Dr. Kaltenbrunner certified [illegible] SS-Obersturm-fuehrer
Protective custody opened, [illegible] [official stamp]
IV 6 b—Gr— Darmstadt, 13 Nov 1944
1. The person listed on the reverse side has been transferred to Dachau Concentration Camp on 9 Nov 1944.
2. IV 6 b at Bensheim is informed herewith.
By order:
[signature illegible]
IV 6 b/10 Nov 1944 1, to file
GESTAPO, GESTAPO OFFICE BERLIN SW 11, 19 Oct 44 IV A 6 b—custody nr. B 36653
PROTECTIVE CUSTODY DECREE
First and last name: Birth date and place:
Thomas Bruecher 5 Jan 04 at Darmstadt-Arheilgen
Profession :
Family status : single
Citizenship: German Reich
Religion :
Race (to be noted for Non-Aryans) :
Place and address: Darmstadt-Arheilgen
will be taken into protective custody.
Reasons: According to STAPO investigation he endangers by his behavior the existence and the safety of the German people and state by disquieting the public through distribution of writings of religious sects; and it is to be expected because of his connection with the circles of the forbidden Jehova's witnesses that he will misuse his freedom for further spreading of religious heterodoxy.
Signed Dr. Kaltenbrunner certified [illegible] SS-Obersturm-fuehrer [Official seal]
IV 6 b—Gr— ..... Darmstadt, 13 Nov 1944
306
2580—PS
1. The person listed on the reverse side has been transferred
to Dachau Concentration Camp on 9 Nov 1944. .
2. IV 6 b at Bensheim is informed herewith.
. By order:
[signature illegible]
IV 6 b/10 Nov 1944 1, To file
By order:
[signature illegible]
Protective custody orders against three men, for work sabotage, insubordination, and distribution of Jehovah's Witnesses writings
Authors
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (chief of security police and security service (SD), RSHA)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)
- Born: 1903-10-04 (Ried im Innkreis) (country: Austria-Hungary)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Court Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Austria; German Reich
- Occupation: lawyer; military officer; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel (period: 1940-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
- Position held: Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-08); President of Interpol (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-12; replaces: Arthur Nebe); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Date: 13 November 1944
Literal Title: Protective Custody Decree
Defendant: Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2580
Citation: IMT (page 1991)
HLSL Item No.: 451722
Notes:Two of the orders state that the prisoner was sent to Dachau. The three men were from the Netherlands, France, and Germany. In the transcript the exhibit number is mis-stated as 542; 524 is correct.
Trial Issues
Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…
Document Summary
PS-2580: Gestapo orders for protective custody, 19 October and 2 December 1944, signed "Kaltenbrunner issued against a German for "disseminating false religious doctrines",. and against a Frenchman and a Dutchman for "work-sabotage"