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sent these people included Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück,
Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Flossenbürg, and Theresienstadt.
Nationalities included Czech, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Corsican,
Lithuanian, Greek, and Jews. Grounds included refusal to work, religious
propaganda, sex relations with PW's, communist statements, loafing on
the job, working against the Reich, spreading of rumors detrimental to
morale, "action Gitter," breach of work contracts, statements
against Germany, assault of foremen, defeatist statements, and theft and
escape from jail.
Not only did Kaltenbrunner commit persons to concentration camps, but
he authorized executions in concentration camps. I now offer Document
L-51 as exhibit next in order, Exhibit USA-521. This is the affidavit of
Adolf Zutter, the former adjutant of Mauthausen Concentration Camp,
taken in the course of an official military investigation of the United
States Army, on 2 August 1945, at Linz, Austria. This affidavit states,
and I am quoting from Paragraph 3:
"Standartenführer Ziereis, the
commander of Camp Mauthausen, gave me a large number of execution
orders after opening the secret mail, because I was the adjutant and I
had to deliver these to Obersturmführer Schulz. These orders of
execution were written approximately in the following form ... "
There follows in the affidavit a description of the order for execution
issued by the RSHA to the commander of the Concentration Camp
Mauthausen. I omit quoting that description and continue at the next
paragraph:
"Orders for execution also came
without the name of the court of justice. Until the assassination of
Heydrich, these orders were signed by him or by his competent deputy.
Later on the orders were signed by Kaltenbrunner, but mostly they were
signed by his deputy, Gruppenführer Müller.
"Dr. Kaltenbrunner, who signed the above-mentioned orders, had
the rank of SS general — Obergruppenführer — and was
the Chief of the Reich Security Main Office.
"Dr. Kaltenbrunner is about 40 years old, height about 1.76 to
1.80 meters, and has deep fencing scars on his face.
"When Dr. Kaltenbrunner was only a Higher SS and Police Leader
in Vienna, he visited the camp several times; later on as the Chief of
Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) he visited the camp, too, though
this occurred much less frequently. During these visits, the commander
usually received him outside the building of the camp headquarters and
reported. Concerning the American military mission, which