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Order from the security police commandant (Radom District) to transfer inmates from prisons to concentration camps, and to liquidate prisoners and Jews, if evacuation becomes impossible, to prevent their liberation by enemy forces

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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

Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) and/or Security Service (S.D.)

Date: 21 July 1944

Literal Title: Subject: Clearance of Prisons

Defendant: Ernst Kaltenbrunner

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 BB: Kaltenbrunner

Citation: IMT (page 1994)

HLSL Item No.: 451697

Notes:The commandant's signature is noted as being illegible, but document L 37 indicates that Illmer was the police commander for Radom.

Trial Issues

Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9)

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

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