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Volume V · Page 1035
| COUNT FOUR |
| From all of the evidence in the case, including the admissions of the defendant, the Tribunal finds and adjudges, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant Karl Sommer is guilty of the charges contained in count four of the indictment. |
| HERMANN POOK |
| Defendant Pook was born 1 May 1901 in Berlin;
after completing his education at the elementary schools, he studied dentistry
from 1921 to 1925 at the University of Berlin and passed his State examination
in 1925. In 1927 he received his doctor's degree in Berlin and began practice
as an independent dentist in Berlin-Lichterfelde. He joined the NSDAP in 1933,
and in the same year became a member of the Reiter [mounted] SS. He was called
into the Waffen SS on 1 October 1940, and the highest rank attained by him in
the Waffen SS was Obersturmbannfuehrer (lieutenant colonel). On 6 September
1943, after completing a number of duty assignments for the Waffen SS, he was
transferred to the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, Amt D III of
Amtsgruppe D, as chief dental officer, and held this position until the end of
the war. The order transferring him to the WVHA is as follows: |
"SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Hermann Pook, born on 1 May 1901, at present Panzer Grenadier division ‘Hohenstaufen’, division staff, is transferred to the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, Amtsgruppe D III, Oranienburg, in the capacity as dentist in charge, as of September 3, 1943. |
| Thus, from this order it is perfectly clear that he was directly subordinate in the WVHA to Dr. Lolling, chief physician of Amt D III. In his field of tasks, he was subordinated under three channels. He was subordinated to Gruppenfuehrer Gluecks, chief of Amtsgruppe 1) in military and disciplinary matters. He was subordinated to office XIV of Amtsgruppe D of the FHA [Fuehrungshauptamt], one of the twelve Main Offices of the SS, not connected with the WVHA. The medical office of the Waffen SS, upon its reorganization in the spring of 1943, became Amtsgruppe D of the FHA and was composed of various departments, one of which was office XIV, the dental office. This office was charged with the administration of the dental services for the whole of the SS, and among other things, for the supplying of materials to |
