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Protective custody orders against several persons, 1943-45, for "defeatist statements," "intimate association" with a Pole, "drifting around," and "shirking and insubordination"

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner (chief of security police and security service (SD), RSHA)

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)

Born: 1903-10-04 (Ried im Innkreis) (country: Austria-Hungary)
Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Court Prison)
Country of citizenship: Austria; German Reich
Occupation: lawyer; military officer; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Military branch: Schutzstaffel (period: 1940-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
Position held: Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-08); President of Interpol (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-12; replaces: Arthur Nebe); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany

Gestapo (Secret State Police; Geheime Staatspolizei)

Date: 09 January 1945

Literal Title: Re: Prisoner Karl Horlebein, born 1 Dec. 92 Steinbach.

Defendant: Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Total Pages: 5

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-2582

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 523

Document Book No: Prosecution BB: Kaltenbrunner

Citation: IMT (page 1990)

HLSL Item No.: 451723

Notes:The orders state that several of the prisoners were sent to concentration camps.

Trial Issues

Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

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PS-2582: Telegrams re Warrants for Protective Custody

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PS-2582: Several Gestapo teletype orders, 1943 to 1945, for protective custody against foreigners and Germans