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Extract from a book on the Oranienburg concentration camp, on the employment of veteran SA men as guards

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Werner Schaefer (commandant of Oranienburg camp; SA officer (1934))

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Werner Schaefer

German physician

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  • Born: 1904-04-18 (Strasbourg)
  • Died: 1973-11-07
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Sturmabteilung
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/302082349
  • ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000409005318
  • WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2004074916

Date: 1934

Literal Title: Konzentrationslager Oranienburg

Total Pages: 1

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-2824

Citation: IMT (page 1773)

HLSL Item No.: 451362

Trial Issues

Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)…

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PS-2824: Sa SturmbannfÜhrer SchÄfer, Commandant of the concentration camp Oranienburg, attempting to justify the treatment of camp inmates by the Sa personnel in charge

CONCENTRATION CAMP ORANIENBURG [Konzentrationslager Oranienburg]
by
SA-Sturmbannfuehrer Schaefer "Buch-und Tiefdruck" Company m.b.H.
Book Publishing Division Berlin SW19 1934, Pages 64-65.
Every day the SA which was composed of various companies detached for the guarding of the camp received instructions from the camp commandant.
The most trusted, oldest SA men v/ere selected in order to give them homes in the camp since they were the permanent camp guards.
In such a manner we created a cadre of experienced guardsmen who were constantly prepared to be employed.
693256—46—30
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