SS Economic Administrative Main Office Office Group Chief D
Concentration Camps, D 1/Az: 14e 3/L/Ot.
Oranienburg, 11 Aug. 1942.
Re: Punishment by Beating.
Ref: none Enel: none
To the camp commandants of concentration camps. Da, Sah, Bu, Mau, Flo, Neu, Au, Gr-Ro, Natz, Nie, Stu, Arb, Rav, and prisoner of war camp Lublin.
The Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police has ordered that punishment by beating will be executed in concentration camps for women by prisoners—under the ordered supervision.
In order to coordinate this order the main office chief of the main SS Economic Administration Office, SS-Obergruppen-
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fuehrer and General of the Waffen-SS Pohl, has ordered, effective immediately, that punishment by beating will also be executed by prisoners in concentration camps for men.
It is forbidden to have foreign prisoners execute the punishment on German prisoners.
The order for punishment will read on page 2 under "executors".
The following prisoners have executed physical punishment on the—
1.......................-....... prison number
2.______________________________prison number
[signature illegible]
SS-Brigadefuehrer and Major General of the Waffen-SS
Instructions to concentration camp commandants concerning corporal punishment of prisoners, who are to be beaten by other prisoners
Authors
Richard Gluecks (Inspector of concentration camps; Chief of Amtsgruppe D in WVHA, SS; SS Gruppenf.)
Richard Gluecks
German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps
- Born: 1889-04-22 (Mönchengladbach)
- Died: 1945-05-10 (Flensburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Military rank: Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA, 1942-45) (or predecessor office)
Date: 11 August 1942
Literal Title: Re: Punishment by Beating.
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-2189
Citation: IMT (page 1845)
HLSL Item No.: 451458
Notes:By Pohl's order male prisoners were to be beaten by other prisoners in their camps; Himmler had already ordered that female prisoners be beaten by other prisoners in camps for women. German prisoners were not to be punished by non-Germans.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)…
Document Summary
PS-2189: Letter from the Ss economic-administrative main office, 11 August 1942, to the commandants of 13 concentration camps and the pow camp Lublin: in concentration camps—in those for women as well as in those for men—corporal punishment is to be inflicted by internees
PS-2189: 11 October 1942 - Letter from the Chief of Amtsgruppe D to Concentration Camp Commanders regarding Pohl order concerning punishment of prisoners by beating.