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Statement on the treatment of foreign workers and POWs who had escaped and been recaptured, who were starved and denied care at Mauthausen under Kaltenbrunner's orders (in the "bullet" action)

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Josef Niedermayer (supervisor at Mauthausen (1942-45))

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Josef Niedermayer

supervisor at Mauthausen KZ

Born: 1920-04-11 (Salzburg)
Died: 1947-05-28 (Landsberg Prison)
Country of citizenship: Austria; Nazi Germany
Occupation: military personnel; plumber

Date: 07 May 1946

Literal Title: Translation of Josef Niedermayer Statement

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-3844

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 801

Document Book No: Prosecution Kaltenbrunner: additional

HLSL Item No.: 451768

Trial Issues

Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Civilians, mistreatment of, including murder, imprisonment, deportation, f… Prisoners of war, abuse, forced labor, or killing of (IMT, NMT 2, 5, 12)

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PS-3844: Affidavit of Joseph Niedermayer re: Extermination of foreign workers and PW's in the 'Mauthausen' concentration camp

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PS-3844: Affidavit by Josef Niedermayer, 7 March 1946: two so-called "bullet" decrees ordered the transfer of foreign civilian workers and pow officers and Nco’s to the concentration camp Mauthausen after repeated attempts to escape. Kaltenbrunner’s responsibility for the treatment of these persons in the camp Mauthausen, which in most cases caused their death