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Instructions to concentration camp commandants forbidding the use of prisoners for experiments without approval from Gluecks's office (Amtsgruppe D of the WVHA)
IMT
Authors
Richard Gluecks (Inspector of concentration camps; Chief of Amtsgruppe D in WVHA, SS; SS Gruppenf.)
Richard Gluecks
German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps
- Born: 1889-04-22 (Mönchengladbach)
- Died: 1945-05-10 (Flensburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Military rank: Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
Date: 12 May 1944
Literal Title: Re: assignment of prisoners for experimental purposes
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: PS-1751
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 468
Document Book No: Prosecution Z: SS
Citation: IMT (page 1856)
HLSL Item No.: 451444
Notes:This is the third page of a longer text; cf. the evidence file versions of PS 1751.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)…
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-1751: Directives of Himmler on how to carry out executions, and letter of SS-General Gluecks re Experiments on Concentration Camp Inmates
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-1751: Himmler’s secret directives, 6 January 1943, for executions in the case of concentration camp prisoners, foreign workers, and others; secret letter from the Ss economic administration head office, 12 May 1944, to several camp commandants, concerning the selection of prisoners as subjects of experiments