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Letters concerning the "K-Fabriken" [poison gas factories]

NMT 4

Authors

Oswald Pohl (Chief of WVHA (SS Econ. and Admin. Main Office); Lt. General Waffen SS)

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Oswald Pohl

German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)

Born: 1892-06-30 (Duisburg)
Died: 1951-06-07 1951-06-08 (Landsberg Prison)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant); Operation Reinhard; Pohl Trial (role: defendant)
Military rank: Obergruppenführer

Karl Franz F. Brandt (Dr., Commissioner for Health, Gruppenfuehrer Waffen-SS)

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Karl Franz F. Brandt

German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904-1948)

Born: 1904-01-08 (Mulhouse)
Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: physician; politician; surgeon
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
Member of: Schutzstaffel (since: 1934-07-29); Sturmabteilung (since: 1933-01-01)
Participant in: Aktion T4; Nazi executions of ill people; Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
Significant person: Adolf Hitler (date: 1942-01-01; role: personal physician; since: 1934-01-01); Herbert H. Meyer (role: defendant, interrogator); Paul Rostock (role: superior; since: 1944-02-01); Robert Servatius (role: criminal defense lawyer, defendant)

Rudolf Emil H. Brandt (SS Obersturmbannfuehrer (Himmler's personal staff))

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Rudolf Emil H. Brandt

German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)

Born: 1909-06-02 (Frankfurt (Oder))
Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: jurist; lawyer; stenographer
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
Member of: The Ahnenerbe
Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
Significant person: Heinrich Himmler (role: adjutant)

Date: 22 June 1944

Literal Title: Re: Your letter of 9 June to the Reichsfuehrer SS, N 61/44.

Defendant: Oswald Pohl

Total Pages: 5

Language of Text: English

Evidence Codes: NO-16c , NO-16a , NO-16b , NO-16d

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 361

Document Book No: Prosecution 13

Citation: NMT 4 (page 646)

HLSL Item No.: 4272

Notes:In this copy of NO 16, "NO 16A" is an error for NO 16c. Items: NO "16A" [16c], Pohl to K. Brandt, 22 June; NO 16a, K. Brandt to Himmler, 9 June; NO 16b, R. Brandt to Pohl, 19 June; NO 16c (another translation of Pohl to K. Brandt, 22 June); NO 16d, R. Brandt to Pohl, 18 July 1944. All items were combined as exhibit 361.

Trial Issue

Forced labor in concentration camps and SS labor units (IMT, NMT 4)

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Letters concerning the "K-Fabriken" [poison gas factories]

Authors

Oswald Pohl

German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)

Karl Franz F. Brandt

German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904-1948)

Rudolf Emil H. Brandt

German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)

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