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| [ (Amstgrup…] penchef D). Normally once
a week Gruppenfuehrer Gluecks and myself went to Berlin to Obergruppenfuehrer
Pohl of the WVHA in order to learn about his decisions regarding the
applications. This conference took normally half an hour. I cannot remember
that in these conferences anything but the assignment of labor was discussed.
4. Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl received from Amt D II in regular intervals, lists about labor assignments of prisoners which showed numbers and places of work of these. Furthermore, the number of non-assigned prisoners would be seen from these lists; also the type of their work, vocationally classified, could be learned from these reports. However, these lists did not show the different nationalities nor the reason why any of those people had been imprisoned. The compilations were made up exclusively for the needs of the administration of labor assignment. Furthermore, Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl received reports from Amtsgruppe D about the total work hours for the economy, the pay the prisoners earned, and reports about work assignments in industry with figures of prisoners employed. Statements about type of production were also added. 5. There were no further consequences to the administration of the WVHA but those in connection with the labor assignment through the incorporation of the Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps into the WVHA as Amtsgruppe D. The Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps retained its official residence in Oranienburg, even after 3 March 1942. No organizational changes were connected with this incorporation. It can be said that the supreme administration of the work assignment was a special task, given to Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl by Reich Leader SS Himmler and did not have anything to do with the [other] organic structure of the WVHA. 6. Through the incorporation of the Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps into the WVHA, the Inspectorate practically did not lose any of its independence aside from the centralized management of work assignments. Particularly there was no change in the competence of the Reich Security Main Office and the political departments in the camps (department VI) because of this reorganization. 7. I remember that in the middle of 1944 Himmler issued an order to the Higher SS and Police Leaders according to which in the case of "A" the concentration camps and work camps, located in their district of command, were automatically subordinated to them [the Higher SS and Police Leaders]. Upon receipt of this order the Higher SS and Police Leaders had to get in touch imme- […diately] |
