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Instructions to the leaders of the security police in the Ukraine to reduce the use of harsh measures (including the shooting of children) in order to facilitate the recruiting of labor for Germany
IMT
Authors
Theodor Christensen (security police officer in Kiev and Tschernigew (1942-43))
Theodor Christensen
SS-Sturmbannführer
- Born: 1905-05-07 (Kiel) (country: German Empire)
- Died: 1988-10-24 (Kassel)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; West Germany
- Occupation: merchant
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
Date: 19 March 1943
Literal Title: To all group leaders of the Security Service (SD) - Auxiliary proups
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: PS-3012
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 190
Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and the SD
Citations: IMT (page 1917), IMT (page 1941)
HLSL Item No.: 451636
Notes:In this copy, Christensen's name is spelled as Christiansen; the Blue Set (vol. 31, p. 495) cites Christensen. The full version of PS 3012 included several other texts.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Civilians, mistreatment of, including murder, imprisonment, deportation, f… Forced labor and mistreatment of workers in war economy (IMT, NMT 2)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-3012: Originals and carbon copies of drafting of labor from the Eastern Territories
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-3012: German decree for the newly occupied eastern territories, 6 february 1943: compulsory labor for all inhabitants from the age of 14 to 65. discussion by officers and administrative officials in Rowno, 10 March 1943: a further million workers to be sent to Germany from the eastern territories within the next 4 months; corresponding order by the economy staff east, 11 March 1943. file memorandum, 20 March 1943, on the employment of prisoners of war in coal-mining. secret Sd circular,
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-3012: March 19, 1943. March 11, 1943. Order signed Christiansen to all group leaders of Security Service and record of telephone conversation signed by Stupj.
Order signed by SS Major Christiansen to all group leaders of Security Service, 19 March 1943.
Copy of memorandum and order, 19 March 1943, from SS Major Christiansen to all group leaders of Security Service. It is stated that the measures of the security police have to be subordinated to the greatest extent to the recruiting of labor for Germany. In the shortest possible time the Ukraine has to put at the disposal of the armament industry one million workers. 500 have to be sent daily from Christiansen's territory.