[handwritten] PG. Buckemueller Gauleiter Service, 25. February 1945
The Gauleiter and National Defense Commissioner of the Gau Westfalen-South
1. To all County Councillors, Mayors and police officials
2. To County Leaders, for information
3. County Staff Chiefs of the Volkssturm are to give corresponding instructions to the men of the Volkssturm.
Fighter-bomber pilots who are shot down are on principle not to be protected against the indignation of the people. I expect from all police offices that they will refuse to lend their protection to these gangster types. Authorities acting in contradiction to the popular sentiment will have to account to me. All police and gendarmerie officials are to be informed immediately of this my attitude.
[signed] Albert Hoffmann
Taken down:
Schmidt initialed by :
Buckemueller
( S A-Obersturmbannf uehrer the Volkssturm)
and County Staff Chief of
904
Orders to county officials, NSDAP party leaders, and Volkssturm (people's army) in Westfalen-South, that Allied airmen who have been shot down are "not to be protected against the indignation of the people," and an order on the transfer of men and military supplies in March 1945 supplies
Authors
Albert Hoffmann (NSDAP gau leader, Oberschlesian and Westphalia-South)
Albert Hoffmann
- Additional details not yet available.
Buckemueller (Volkssturm staff chief, Westphalia; SA officer)
Buckemueller
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 25 February 1945
Literal Title: [no title]
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: L-154
Citation: IMT (page 14728)
HLSL Item No.: 456169
Notes:Hoffmann on the airmen, 25 February 1945; Buckemueller on transfers, 20 March 1945.
Trial Issues
Allied airmen, murder or mistreatment of (IMT, NMT 3, 11) Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SA, SD, OK…
Document Summary
L-154: Order from Geuleiter and National Defense Commissioner of Gau of Westfalen-South, ordering all police officers not to protect Allied fighter-bomber pilots from fury of public
Order from Geuleiter and National Defense Commissioner of Gau of Westfalen-South, ordering all police officers not to protect Allied fighter-bomber pilots from fury of public
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