"Near Sagan there are 10,000 captured air force officers"

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    papiermache Well-Known Member

    The UNWCC archive at the ICC website is the source of this transcription ( see page 13 of the original document , link below )


    " Extract from notes of a Conference at F.H.Q. on 27 January, 1945.

    Translation of extract from notes of a conference at F.H.Q/ on 27 January, 1945.


    Goering: “ Near Sagan there are 10,000 captured air force officers. It is said that there are no transport facilities for them. The idea has been spoken of that the prisoners should be left to their Soviet Russian Allies. They would get 10,000 fliers.”

    Hitler: “ Why did they not take them away sooner ? That is a “ Schlamperei sondergleichen” ( vernacular for “laziness and inefficiency without precedent” ).”

    Goering: “ That is the B’ de E. We do not have to do anything with that. I can only report it.”

    Hitler: “ They have got to go even if they have to march in the dirt on foot. The Volksturm has to be called up for them. Whoever runs away will be shot. That is to be done with all possible means.”

    Goering: “ How many cattle trucks do you need for 10,000 men?”

    Hitler: “ If we transport them according to German standards we should need at least 20 transport trains for 10,000 men; if we transport them according to Russian ideas we need five - or three.”

    Goering: “Take their pants and boots off so they cannot run away in the snow.”

    The matter was then dropped but later at the same conference it was brought up again, as follows:

    Goering: “The 10,000 prisoners in Sagan should be transported by Obergruppenfuehrer Juettner.” (+)

    Hitler: “ They will have to be taken out of there by every possible means; the Volksturm will have to set up for them with the most energetic people. Attempts at flight will be punished with death.”

    Fegelein: “ We have the men for them who guards the concentration camps, that is Obergruppenfuehrer Gluecke, (++) he should take charge of it.”


    (+) Probably Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Juttner, Chief of S.S. Operations Department and of S.S. Operations Headquarters; permanent Deputy to Himmler as CIC of Replacement Army.

    (++) Evidently Police General Richard Gluecks, Commander of Concentration Camps. "


    And other reports, one concerns the aftermath of the Great Escape and the third an extract from a statement about a deadly machine for measuring the height of a prisoner. ( A 13.2 mb download )

    https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/501bfb/pdf/
     
    Last edited: Mar 23, 2020

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