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Date: 16 November 1945

Literal Title: Certificate

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-3421

HLSL Item No.: 604392

Document Summary

Red Series Doc Descriptions

PS-3421: Certification of origin of exhibit Usa-252 (3420-ps) and account by German prisoner of war of the killing of prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp to obtain tattooed human skin for ornamental purposes

Blue Series Subject Index

PS-3421: CONCENTRATION CAMPS, INDIVIDUAL CAMPS / ATROCITIES -- Tattooed human skin, utilization, Blaha oral evidence / ATROCITIES -- -- Human head specially prepared -- skin preparations, Balachowsky oral evidence / ATROCITIES -- Human skin, utilization

OFFICE OF U. S. CHIEF OF COUNSEL FOR THE PROSECUTION OF AXIS CRIMINALITY
16 November 1945.
CERTIFICATE
I, George C. Demas, Lieut., USNR, associated with the United States Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality, hereby certify that the attached exhibit, consisting of parchment, was delivered by the War Crimes Section, Judge Advocate General, U. S. Army, to me in my above capacity, in the usual course of official business, as an exhibit found in Buchenwald Camp and captured by military forces under the command of the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces.
NAME [Signed] George C. Demas RANK Lieutenant, USNR FILE NO. 301973

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