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Volume I · Page 752
| At the same time one must provide for the accommodation of the 30 women in the Natzweiler concentration camp for a short period. | |
| [Signature] Sievers SS Standartenfuehrer |
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Carbon copies to —
a. SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. Beger
b. SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Prof. Dr. Hirt
c. SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Dr. Brandt
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| PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT SIEVERS 45 SIEVERS DEFENSE EXHIBIT 46 |
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| EXTRACT FROM THE AFFIDAVIT OF DR. GISELA SCHMITZ, 27 MARCH 1947, ON SIEVERS' POSITION IN THE AHNENERBE SOCIETY AND HIS CONNECTION WITH THE SKELETON COLLECTION | |
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| In 1937 I was appointed Secretary
in the Research and Instruction Society, the Ahnenerbe, Registered Association,
where I remained until the end of the war in 1945. During all these years I
worked for Wolfram Sievers, who was Reich Business Manager, and I gained
thereby a fairly comprehensive insight into the organization of the Ahnenerbe
and into Sievers activity. The organization of the Ahnenerbe during the time when I was attached to it was as follows: Himmler was the president; Professor Wuest, Rector of Munich University, was his curator; Sievers was responsible to the latter as Reich Business Manager. An internal code of procedure laid down as a regulation for the Reich Business Manager stipulated that all decisive functions were the concern of the department chief and curator of the Ahnenerbe. According to this all decisions had to be obtained by the Reich Business Manager from the department chief if they were not dealt with by the president. Professor Wuest had the right to report direct to Himmler as president on all questions; Sievers could only do so on administrative concerns, and then only when Himmler consulted him on special matters and requested a report of him. Sievers' own sphere was financial and staff administration and the supervision of the business dealings of the Ahnenerbe. In scientific matters Sievers was denied the right to issue any orders. He was also forbidden personally to sign letters concerning scientific matters. However, as it was not always possible in practice to send all letters from Berlin to Munich, the domicile and permanent residence of the curator, for signature, Sievers often signed; Wuest then countersigned the copy. |
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