Sonderkommando Kulmhof – Contemporary Sources 1942

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On January 6, 1942, Herman Krumey, the head of the Migration Central Office in Litzmannstadt, recorded the names of three

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In January 1942, authorities in the Warthegau region grappled with the spread of typhus originating from Sinti and Roma victims,

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On 29 January 1942, the office of the Reichsführer-SS forwarded to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories a

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Deposition in Yiddish in February 1942 in the Warszaw Ghetto by Szlama Winer aka Jakub Grojnowski. In his account titled

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On February 6, 1942, the BdS Ostland in Riga (head of Einsatzgruppe A) telexed its Einsatzkommandos in Reval, Minsk and

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On February 13, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich's adjutant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans-Achim Ploetz, forwarded a report from Einsatzgruppe A to the staff of

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On February 6, 1942, Martin Luther of the German Foreign Office forwarded an anonymous letter to Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller.

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The document provides a list of transports with 10,348 Jews deported between March 1 and 15, 1942 from Radegast Station

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In this letter dated March 4, 1942, the Reichsarzt SS Ernst-Robert Grawitz describes the medical condition and recovery process of

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In a report dated 6 March 1942, Oberregierungsrat Paul Haensel presented findings from his inspection trip to Minsk. According to

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On 8 March 1942, the F. Reichelt Aktiengesellschaft Litzmannstadt, a Pharmaceutical Company, issued an invoice to the Ghetto Administration in

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German military report from March 19, 1942 on the mood and conditions of the civilian population in Lemberg (now

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In March 1942, the Inspector of the Health Service under the Reich Commissary for the Consolidation of German Folk ordered

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The document details a list of transports carrying 16,748 Jews from Radegast Station in the Łódź Ghetto to Przybyłów near

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In a report titled "The Incidents in Kulmhof," Hersz Wasser, the secretary of the Warsaw Ghetto underground organisation Oneg Shabbbat,

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Medical Services Report issued by the Ortskommandantur in Mariampol (Lithuania) on 5 April 1942. the report notes the need to

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A confidential report dated April 7, 1942, issued by the Lublin Labor Office, documents labor allocations for March 1942, including

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This directive on "Burial sites of the Jews", issued on 25 April 1942 by the District Commissioner of Wilna-Land (Vilnius

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On May 3, 1942, in a coordinated action with the Reich Governor Arthur Greiser of the Reichsgau Wartheland, Wilhelm Koppe,

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Between 1940 and 1942, Franz Heinrich Bock served as Mayor and Official Commissioner of the Polish village of Poddębice. During

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On May 16, 1942, SS-Untersturmführer August Becker submitted a report to the head of RSHA department II D, Walther Rauff,

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Radio message from the Gendarmerie District Ostrowo to the Gendarmerie post in Adelnau, dated May 16, 1942. The message reported

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In June and July 1942, the Ghetto Łódź Administration delivered large quantities of chlorinated lime and cement to the

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Memo dated June 5, 1942, authored by SS-Hauptsturmführer Willy Just of RSHA office II D 3 a (Motor Vehicle Department

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On 23 June, 1942, SS-Oberführer Viktor Brack from Hitler's Chancellory wrote to Heinrich Himmler on the matter of mass sterilisation

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On 8 July 1942, Albert Plate from the Sonderkommando Kulmhof discussed with the Ghetto Lodz Administration regarding the supply of

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On 15 July 1942, SS-Obersturmbannführer Ernst Fick, commander of the Sennheim training camp, requested a portable flamethrower unit from the

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A form sheet by SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle dated July 18, 1942, on the individual's responsibilities and strict secrecy surrounding their

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On July 19, 1942, Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer of the SS, issued a directive ordering the complete "resettlement of the

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Wilm Hosenfeld, a German officer stationed in Warsaw during World War II, recounts in a diary entry of 23 July

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On July 28, 1942, Albert Ganzenmüller, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Transport and Deputy Director General of the

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The Swiss cardiologist and medical captain Robert Hegglin participated in the so-called third medical mission of the Swiss Red Cross,

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The following document, dated August 13, 1942, is SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff's response to an earlier letter from Albert Ganzenmüller, Deputy

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Report of SS-Untersturmführer Fritz Ertl, dated August 21, 1942 about a meeting with engineers Kurt Prüfer and Robert Köhler in

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A radio message from the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (SS-WVHA) to the Auschwitz concentration camp, dated 26 August

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The letter dated 28 August 1942 discusses the transfer of furs confiscated from those murdered in Kulmhof (Chelmno) to the

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In 1942, the SS Main Office pursued an investigation into Oskar Dirlewanger, commander of the notorious penal unit, Sonderkommando Dirlewanger.

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Memo by Topf & Söhne engineer Kurt Prüfer regarding a phone call with the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Economic and Administrative Main

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Report by Topf & Söhne engineer Fritz Sander, dated September 14, 1942, on the new construction of incineration ovens for

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According to a radio message from September 15, 1942 and a trip report dated September 17, 1942, on 16 September

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On September 16, 1942, SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl, head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, sent a letter to

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War Diary no. 1 of the Operation Staff Minsk, compiled by SS-Obersturmführer Fritz Biermeier for the Higher SS and Police

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Interrogation report dated September 30, 1942, documenting the questioning of SS-Oberscharführer Heinrich Feiertag by an SS court officer regarding allegations

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In this secret directive (telex dated 25 October 1942), SS-Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel instructed SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Aumeier that any inspection of

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On October 27, 1942, Heinrich Himmler issued an order to Hans-Adolf Prützmann, the Higher SS and Police Leader in Ukraine,

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In 1942, the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, authorized the killing of 150 prisoners – primarily Jews – from Auschwitz to create

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The letter, dated December 3, 1942, from Himmler to SS-Obergruppenführer Greiser, acknowledges Dr. Blome's concerns regarding the proposed plan to

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On December 7, 1942, a German city medical officer named Dr. Wilhelm Hagen wrote an extraordinary letter addressed directly to

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In late 1942, several thousand Poles were deported from Zamosc, Poland, following Nazi racial classifications that determined their fate. This

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On December 29, 1942, SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler delivered a report to Adolf Hitler, mentioning the execution of 363,211 Jews within

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Proposal for the Award of the War Merit Cross II Class with Swords by the Gestapo Headquarters in Posen, dated

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