SECRET
Copy
SS Economic-Administrative Main Office
District Group D—Concentration Camps—DI/1 Az.: 14 f 5/L/Ot. Secret diary Nr. 645/42
Oranienburg, 12 Sept 42
Concerns: Return of urns of inmates deceased in concentration camps.
Reference: Chief of Security Police [Sipo] and the SD-NDla-838/42—of 7.9.42 Enel: None
To the Commanders of Concentration Camps, Da., Sa., Bu., Mau., Flo., Neu., Au., Gro-Ro., Natz., Nie., Stu., Arb., Rav., and Prisoners of War, Camp Lublin.
According to a communication of the Chief of the Security Police and the SD and conforming to a report of the Chief of Security Police and SD in Prague, urns of deceased Czechs and Jews were sent for burial to the home-cemeteries within the Protectorate.
Based on different events (demonstrations, erecting of posters inimical to the Reich on urns of deceased inmates in halls of cemeteries in the home-communities, pilgrimages to the graves of deceased inmates etc.) within the Protectorate, the delivery of urns with the ash remnants of deceased Nationals of the Protectorate and of Jews is henceforth prohibited. The urns shall be preserved within the Concentration Camps. In case of doubt about the preservation of the urns oral instructions shall be available at this agency.
The Chief of the Central Office
sig: Liebehenschel,
SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer.
Correctness of Copy is certified:
Natzweiler, 16 September 1942 sig: [illegible signature]
SS Oscha. und Stabsscharf.
853
2199-PS
SECRET
Copy
SS Economic-Administrative Main Office District Group D
Concentration Camps—D I/l/Az.: 14 e 3/Ot./U.
Ill
Oranienburg, 4 April 1942
Concerns: Lashing [Pruegelstrefen]
to the Concentration Camp Commanders of Da., Sah., Bu., Mau., Flo., Au., Gr. Ro., Natzw., Nie., Stu., Arb., Rav., and Commander of Prisoner of War Camp Lublin.
The Reich Fuehrer-SS and Chief of the German Police has decreed that when the word "more severe" [verschaerft] is added in his orders for lashings, the execution of the sentence must be undergone with bare seat [unbekleidetes Gesaess]. (This includes male as well as female prisoners in protective or preventative custody.)
In all other cases the previously decreed punishment by Reich-fuehrer-SS remains the same.
The Chief of the Central Office
sig: Liebehenschel SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer
FdRda
sig: [illegible]
SS Oberscharfuehrer und Stabsscharfuehrer
Instructions to concentration camp commandants that the ashes of dead Czech and Jewish prisoners are to be kept in the camps and not returned to their homes (in order to prevent further demonstrations)
Authors
Arthur Liebenhenschel (Inspectorate of concentration camps, Amtsgruppe D, WVHA, SS)
Arthur Liebehenschel
SS officer
- Born: 1901-11-25 (Poznań)
- Died: 1948-01-24 (Kraków)
- Country of citizenship: German Reich; Germany; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: concentration camp guard; military officer; tax consultant; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-02-01)
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Action 14f13
- Military rank: Obersturmbannführer
Date: 12 September 1942
Literal Title: Concerns: Return of urns of inmates deceased in concentration camps.
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-2199
Citation: IMT (page 1845)
HLSL Item No.: 451459
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)…
Document Summary
PS-2199: Copies of letters from the SS-WVHA, to the Commanders of Concentration Camps and the Lublin PW Camp re: Beating and killing of prisoners
PS-2199: Two secret letters, 4 April and 12 September 1942, from the Ss economic-administrative main office, office group D, to several concentration camp commandants: instructions for the infliction of corporal punishment on men and women in concentration camps; urns containing the ashes of Czechs and Jews dying in concentration camps May not be handed over to their relatives