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of facts or “examinations” in the workers’ penal
camps, such requests should be refused with the explanation that they cannot be
granted without approval by RSHA [Reich Security Main office], since these
workers’ penal camps are exclusively a police measure. Reports are to be
sent here without delay on all cases of inspections of workers’ penal
camps justifying suspicion that material against the Security Police is being
collected, and furthermore on all observations made in this connection.
Supplement for Gestapo Headquarters Frankfurt/Main:
Further reference
will be made to your teletype of 29 June 1943 - 7005 - RSHA -IV D-304/43
c-656-(Foreign Workers) LA |
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| SIGNED MUELLER, SS Gruppenfuehrer. |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NIK-15377
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1537
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| INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM, DICTATED BY DEFENDANT VON BUELOW, II
OCTOBER 1943, CONCERNING EARLY PLANS TO ESTABLISH A PUNITIVE CAMP FOR FOREIGN
WORKERS AT DECHENSCHULE |
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Cast Steel Works, 11 October 1943
v. B. [von Buelow] /Ste.
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| Subject: Establishment of a punitive camp |
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| [Initial] W [WILSHAUS] |
| 10 November |
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On principle we are prepared to establish a punitive camp
[Straflager] in the former Dechenschule [camp], but according to the following
policies:
1. The house is partially demolished, reconstruction will
take 2 months. The possibilities to equip another camp have been investigated
in detail. Primarily as a result of the arrival in large numbers of Badoglio
soldiers, everything is already overcrowded. Is it possible for the city or the
State Police to give us another camp? However, this would have to be favorably
situated with respect to the factory.
2. Camp management,
administration and operations are directed by our main camp administration
which is responsible for the condition of the camp, discipline, etc.; based on
the fact that Mr. Kupke as counterintelligence agent is responsible in
intelligence matters to me as chief counterintelligence agent for close
cooperation between the main camp administration and the plant police. Wherever
necessary the plant police would be summoned or would intervene. However, I
should like to have one or two men provided by the police for controlling
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