ACTION REINHARDT The extermination and deportation of the Jews in the East produced a vast amount of valuable property, both real and personal, whi [ ... ]
Camp commandants were cautioned not to ship clothing which was stained with blood or showed bullet holes. To complete the desecration, the hair was [ ... ]
[ ... ] nothing. With this conclusion Pohl himself agrees. In his interrogation of June 13, 1946 (Ex. 693), Pohl was confronted by Kaltenbrunner's testimony before ," to which Pohl commented: "Well, that is complete nonsense. I described to you how these were handled in the WVHA. As for instance, in the case of the [ ... ]
nonsense for him to speak of just a handful of men." In Liebehenschel's letter of February 25, 1943, written as Chief of Amtsgruppe D of the WVHA a [ ... ]
[ ... ] Court No. II, Case No. IV. OSWALD POHL Prior to 1934, defendant Pohl was Chief Disbursing Officer of the German Navy. On a visit by Himmler to the Naval Base at Kiel in 1934, he met Pohl and persuaded him to sever his connection with the Navy and assume an administrative position with the SS Main [ ... ]
[ ... ] economic matters of these institutions and their application to work is the responsibility of SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl." The change in Reich policy by plan of exacting from concentration camp inmates their last once of energy in furtherance of the Reich's war plans became operative. It became Pohl [ ... ]
[ ... ] , resented somewhat their subordination to Pohl and continued to look to Himmler for orders. The fact remains, however, that Pohl, as head of the WVHA, was the superior of Gluecks and Maurer and was in a position to exercise and did exercise substantial supervision and control over Amtsgruppe D. Pohl [ ... ]
[ ... ] , it is stated: "Through my activity as Labor Assignment Officer I know that in 1942 an order by Pohl was sent to the Concentration Camps, which organization of labor in the camp. The duration of this illegal imprisonment could be extended to the end of the war." To the very end of the war Pohl kept a [ ... ]
[ ... ] on this obvious duty of the guards." In 1942, Gluecks, Chief of Amtsgruppe D, in writing to the camp commanders, stated that Pohl had ordered that punishment on German prisoners. This letter is significant because it recognizes Pohl's superior authority to issue such an order. If Gluecks enjoyed the [ ... ]
[ ... ] he visited the camps where they were installed. Nearly every Amt Chief testified that he reported frequently to Pohl in person concerning events and from camp to camp. There was doubtless no other one person in Germany who knew as much about all the details of the concentration camps as Pohl. At [ ... ]