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Letter to Kaltenbrunner on the standards required for security police (SIPO) officers to join the SS, including racial and ideological fitness and personal health ("neither ill, degenerate, nor worthless")
IMT
Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Date: 24 April 1943
Literal Title: [no title]
Defendant: Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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-2768
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 447
Document Book No: Prosecution Z: SS
Citation: IMT (page 1818)
HLSL Item No.: 451463
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SA, SD, OK… Administration & organization (all cases) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-2768: Letter Himmler, re applicants, members of SIPO, for the SS
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-2768: Letter from Himmler to Kaltenbrunner (date ■ illegible), concerning the conditions of entry into the Ss by members of the security police
Blue Series Subject Index
PS-2768: SS -- Membership: Admission of Sipo officials