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| joined the NSDAP in 1929, with the Party No.
93508. He was a member of the SS from 1930 until the end of the War, and had
the SS No. 2351. His first rank in the General SS was SS man, and last rank in
the SS was Standartenfuehrer (colonel). He commanded a motorized company from
1938 until 1 October 1942. At that time his motorized organization became a
division, and the defendant became the division technical officer. On 1 October
1942, he was transferred to the Economic and Administrative Main Office, WVHA.
When he joined the WVHA on 1 October 1942, he became the chief of Amt B V as a
technical expert in the field of motor transportation. In the defendant's own
affidavit, (NO-2612, Pros. Ex. 10), he outlined in detail his duties as
office chief of Amt B V of the WVHA. All motor transport technical officers
were in principle subordinate to the Operational Main Office, formerly the
command headquarters of the Waffen SS. Pohl informed him that Georg Loerner was
his chief, and he thereupon reported to Loerner. As chief of Amt B V of the
WVHA, he tools over the whole of the transportation of the WVHA, with the
exception of the transports of human beings, which were taken over by D I. When
he came to the WVHA he was commissioned by Gruppenfuehrer Loerner to bring all
motor vehicles, weapons, and railroad transports under this office, so that
everyone who had anything to do with them or with fuel, oils, tires, etc., was
to report to him or to his Main Office. He was the representative of the
Operational Main Office in the WVHA and was in charge of transportation for all
the Amtsgruppen. Amtsgruppe A needed no transport space. Amtsgruppe B required
transport space continually for forwarding goods to supply and equip the Waffen
SS. Amtsgruppe C had its own quota of motor vehicles from the Operational Main
Office, and had the vehicles of the private building firms put at its disposal.
Amtsgruppe D constantly ordered motor vehicles from his office, and he passed
on the orders to the Operational Main Office. These demands mostly came from
Gluecks. He also dealt with the demands for arms and ammunition for the
concentration camp guards and passed them on to the Operational Main Office,
which in turn gave instructions to the ordnance depot of the Waffen SS in
Oranienburg, where Amtsgruppe D collected these weapons. He never assigned the
vehicles for the concentration camps to the camps themselves, but to Schulz who
then assigned them to the concentration camps. If concentration camp inmates
were shipped in railroad trucks, the preparations were made by the staff of
Amtsgruppe D. The prosecution contends that by virtue of the high office which the defendant held in the WVHA, he was required to |
