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M O S T S E C R E T.TO BE KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY: NEVER TO BE REMOVED FROM THE OFFICE. THIS DOCUMENT IS TO RECEIVE CX/MSS SECURITY TREATMENT. IF FUTURE CIRCULATION IS NECESSARY, IT MUST BE PARAPHRASED, SO THAT NEITHER THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION NOR THE MEANS BY WHICH IT HAS BEEN OBTAINED IS APPARENT. __________________________________________ GPDD No’s.:- 237a, 239b, 244a, 251a, 251b, 252a, 258b, 266a, 266b, 268b, 269a, 269b, 271a, 272b, 273b, 274a, 274b, 274d, 272a, 278a, 278b, 279a, 279b, 280d, 281a, 281b, 287b, 287a, 287b, 290a, 290b, 290d, 296d, 298d, 301a, 301b, 302a, 302b, 303a, 303b, 303d, 304a, 304b, 304d, 307a. ________________________________________________________________________ Covering material received between 18th. October and 25th. November 1942 S U M M A R Y I. Waffen SS. II. Concentration Camps. III. Medical. IV. Miscellaneous. GENERAL: The SS.Div. Totenkopf has moved to the South of France and is now known as a Panzergrenadier division; re-organisation and re-equipment of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler and SS. Div. das Reich are proceeding. Wiking has suffered heavy casualties in South Russia. Assault gun troops are being formed for Wiking and Cav. Div. and an Assault gun battery for Reich. Volksdeutsche are being trained in concentration camps before being sent out on service. There is abundant evidence of the use of concentration camp prisoners in war industries,. References are to G.P.D.D. Nos. unless otherwise stated. - - - - - - - - - - - - DISTRIBUTION LIST: 1. M.I.14(d) 2. Major Leathem 3. Squadron Leader Oeser. 4. Wing Commander Jones. 5. B.P.I.E. 6. Lt.Col. Lithgow 7. File. 8. Col. Hatton Hall. ZIP/OS
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II. CONCENTRATION CAMPS. a) General. Camps not previously mentioned are HEGEWALD (281B 52), WEWELSBURG (239b 29), ISCHL (272b 23), ZWRINGEN (273b 2), JAWICHOWICS (281b 34). There is some evidence of Concentration Camp guards being posted to SS. Divisions and one camp complains of great shortage of fit men (271b 11,52;272b 22;266b 15;290b 7,14). A considerable number of Volksdeutsche from BOSNIA are introduced in mid November apparently as Concentration Camp guards and the utmost economy is to be observed in arming them (302b 25, 42; 303b 39). AUSCHWITZ asks for 490 rifles for the Bosnians; the figure tallies very closely with the figure of 489 Volksdeutsche from the South East given on 29 Oct. (281b 54 cf. 28,49, 50,51,60), and makes it probable that Volksdeutsche are trained as Concentration Camp guards and are then dispatched to fighting units such as the Prinz Eugen (see last summary); it is in any case certain that 39 of the 88 Hungarians in the AUSCHWITZ return are sent to the Supply Centre, Russia South (268d 25 etc.) That the figures circulated as G.P.C.C 5 were rightly interpreted as totals of Kommandanturstab and Guards is borne out by a FLOSSENBURG return for Kommandanturstab and Guard on 4 Nov. (287b 1) which agrees exactly with the G.P.C.C.5 figures. These figures show no significant changes in the members of the Kommandanturstab in the various camps but the figures for the Guards show some variation between October 17th and Nov. 20th: DACHAU: Oct.20 - 549: Nov. 13th – 526: Nov. 20th – 575. MAUTHAUSEN: “ “ – 549: “ “ - 540: “ “ - 601. GUSEN: “ “ – 577: “ “ - 577: “ “ - 566. BUCHENWALD: a) “ “ – 499: “ “ - 486: “ “ - 639. b) “ “ – 102: “ “ - 87: “ “ - 85. FLOSSENBUERG: “ “ – 357: “ “ - 323: “ “ - 319. AUSCHWITZ: a) “ “ – 1244: “ “ -1393: “ “ -1359. b) “ “ - “ “ - 873: “ “ - 575. NIEDERHAGEN: “ “ – 137: “ “ - 132: “ “ - 123. LUBLIN: a) “ “ – 235: “ “ - 440: “ “ - 435. b) “ “ – 359: “ “ - 359: “ “ - 310. The causes of fluctuation may be the aforementioned movement of Volksdeutsche (note that BUCHENWALD receives 100 on 17 Nov.-(302b 24) and LUBLIN 200 after 20 Oct. (272b 7) and the transferment of Guards particularly to AUSCHWITZ with prisoners for industrial war work (273b 29): DEBICA supplies 89 SS. Men as Guards for this purpose on 26 Nov. (304a 32;307a 50). The use of prisoners for war industries on a large scale is discussed below: it explains the drawing in of the Aussenkommandos (258b 20) and was initiated by Himmler (258b 13) and discussed at conferences between MAURER and POHL and between SOMMER and SPEER (272b 10: 279b 31); the largest transference is the move of Jews to AUSCHWITZ for the synthetic rubber works (281b 36 etc.) Another major movement is the transference of sick prisoners (stationaerkranken and bedingttauglichen) to DACHAU (281b 61; 279b 42). Meanwhile typhus continues, particularly at AUSCHWITZ (see below under medical). A study of the individual camps and their G.P.C.C figures follows. b) DACHAU. The total sinks from 10133 on 17 Oct. to 9611 on Oct 28. And rises to 10875 on 20 Nov. Large departures on 27 Oct., 3 and 11 Nov. account for the decrease, large arrivals on 31 Oct., 4,9,13,16,20 Nov. account for the rise. Departures may be due to prisoners being sent on war work to AUSCHWITZ and other places, which removes all but 9 of the Jews and many Russian civilians (251b 2; 268b 23;271b 5,28; 273b 29); arrivals are due both to transferences for war work and to the arrival of sick prisoners (273b 32, 278b 42, 281b 3). c) MAUTHAUSEN and GUSEN. There is evidence that RAVENSBRUECK as well as GUSEN comes under the same administration as MAUTHAUSEN (281b 1, 10, 55). The MAUTHAUSEN figures decrease from 6171 on 20 Oct. to 5256 on 9 Nov. ZIP/OS
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and rise again to 5806 on 18 Nov. There is a very large departure on 9 Nov., and large arrivals on 10 and 16 Nov. which cannot be identified. The GUSEN figures sink departure of 200 between 31st Oct. and 1 Nov. is probably to be identified with the 187 prisoners (excluding Red Spaniards, Belgians, and prisoners of war) who are mentioned on 29 Oct. (281b 21,63). GUSEN includes 115 young stonemasons who cannot be used at the moment owing to lack of stone but are having their physical standard raised (267b 39). d) BUCHENWALD. The departure of 405 Jewish prisoners on Oct. 19th mentioned in the last summary is now explained; they are sent to AUSCHWITZ (269b 23). The departure of 400 on 9 Oct is to NEUENGAMME for the Hermann Goering works (258b 17). On the same day 50 prisoners and 11 Guards are sent to the Hermann Goering works at BRUNSWICK (269b 19). 179 unfit prisoners (excluding 60 from the Protectorate) are moved to DACHAU on 29 Oct.; they appear in the G.P.C.C figures and comprise Russian civilians, politicals, and Poles. During November the total of prisoners rises from a minimum of 8693 to a maximum of 9090 on the 20th. e) FLOSSENBUERG. The total decreases from 3855 on 20 Oct. to 3428 on 20 Nov. On 15 Oct. 100 prisoners are sent from the Fluorspar quarries to the SS. Pionier Ers. Bn. At DRESDEN (269b5); on 4 Nov. 70 men are moved to NEUENGAMME for the Hermann Goering works (287b 12) and 18 Political prisoners arrive from SACHSENHAUSEN prisoners arrived from SACHSENHAUSEN on 20 Oct. (273b 34). All these changes are reflected in the G.P.C.C figures. 4 Polish prisoners are to be executed on 7 Nov. (290b 20). f) AUSCHWITZ. From the end of October the total continues to rise until on 20 Nov. it reaches 21650, a figure comparable to the figures of early September. The very large arrivals are mostly Jews and the number of Jews rises from 7500 in the middle of October to 1000 on 20 Nov. 2000 Jews (272b 10; 287b 17; 290b 16; 302b 5) are known to be employed on the Buna Works. 278 prisoners from AUSCHWITZ are employed on the HOLLESCHAU Portland cement works (274b 30). There is ample evidence that typhus is still rife (see under medical) and may account for many of the departures. 200 Russian consumptives arrive from SACHSENHAUSEN on 27 October (279b 36) The 6500 because arrivals balance departures. (G.P.D.C: F 3). g) HINZERT. Nothing to note. h) NIEDERHAGEN. This camp continues to receive a weekly batch of 20: departures in the first three weeks of November exceed arrivals by 25. On 21 Oct. the camp asked for a lorry to take corpses to BOCHUM as the crematoria at BIELEFELD and DORTMUND were too hard pressed to take any more (273b 28; 274b 33). i. LUBLIN. The figures rise slightly to 9000 with an increase of Jews which more than balances a slight decrease of Poles. The new camp at LUBLIN rises from 932 on 20 Oct. to 2829 on 20 Nov.; there are still only two classes of inmate (G.P.C.C: J 3). It is to be noted that a Kriegsgefangenenlager at KOBIERSZYN near KRAKAU is apparently controlled by LUBLIN (274a 8). k) STUTTHOF. STUTTHOF figures show no important change. l) DEBICA. A Polish compulsory labour camp contains about 1500 Poles; A camp for French prisoners of war is building (266a 3,12,23,24,25, 26,41;272a 23). III. MEDICAL Typhus and spotted fever in XX KL. AUSCHWITZ have spread from the prisoners to the Guards. On 6th October the camp reports 13 suspected cases among SS. men, as well as one case of meningitis; among the ZIP/OS
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prisoners 128 suspected cases of spotted fever are reported, for the period 28 Sept. to 6 Oct. 92 cases have been transferred to the hospital, 85 have been cured and 45 deaths have occurred (2586/3). On Oct. 16,4 cases among SS Guards (286b 11); on Oct 21, 2 cases of typhus and 2 of spotted fever (273b 11). During a period of 10 days 13 suspected spotted fever cases and 3 suspected cases have occurred among the Guards while the number of suspected cases in the camp on Oct 22 amounts to 107 (273b 14); on the 27th the figure is 88 (2769b 1); 6 more men are sent to the hospital on suspicion on Nov.4 (278n 3 and 6). Dr. Caesar is affected with Paratyphus (266b 8) and on the same day news comes of the death of his wife through Typhus abdominalis, and 3 cases are reported among families of SS men (266b 9). At the Buna works the number of sick rises from 35 on 4 Nov. to 100 on 21 Nov. (287b 17;304b 1). From KL. LUBLIN one case of suspected spotted fever among the Guard is reported (279b 27). Typhus graphs are required from the JAWICHOWICZ camp (281b 34); disin- fection courses are given to SS. Guards (281b 38); HINZERT is told that disinfection apparatus is to be procured from GESTAPO because the Concentration camp apparatus is all being used (302b 35); vaccine is sent to LUBLIN (303b 19); in AUSCHWITZ experiments are made with the OBERMAYER Fleckfiebermittel (268b 31) and two officers from the Kanslei des Fuehrers are to see the working of Roentgensterilisation (274b 41) There is an outbreak of dysentery in the Polish workers camp at DEBICA; 60 acute cases and 60 milder cases are reported; the camp is in quarantine and the commandant requires an epidemic specialist to take measures to prevent spreading of the disease to the troops (266a 3, 12, 24, 40). An odd case has occurred in RIGA where 15 men after being vaccinated by the Staff Medical Officer are taken ill with Gasbrand and are operated on; their condition is said to be serious (303d 21,25). Vaccination of the Guard against scarlet fever has taken place at FLOSSENBÜRG: |
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