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Instructions to SS officer Thiel in Tomaschow (Poland) to reduce the number of prisoners, preferably by sending prisoners to concentration camps; in case evacuation becomes impossible, prisoners and Jews are to be liquidated

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Illmer (chief of security police and SD, Radom (Poland), 1944)

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Joachim Illmer

chief of security police and SD

Born: 1909-06-29 (Ballenstedt)
Country of citizenship: West Germany
Occupation: jurist

Date: 21 July 1944

Literal Title: Subject: Clearance of Prisons

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-53

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 291

Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and SD

HLSL Item No.: 451538

Notes:The signature is noted as being unreadable, but document L 37 identifies Illmer as the police commander in Radom.

Trial Issues

Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9)

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L-53: Top secret letter, 21 July 1944, from Illmer, Chief of [Illegible] and SD for district of Radom, to subordinates transmitting war of Bds in General Government, 20 July 1944, as to clearing prisons