Translations of German Documents Relating to Concentration Camp Personnel and Crimes Committed by them at Concentration Camps, ca. 1947–1958

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Translations of German Documents Relating to Concentration Camp Personnel and Crimes Committed by them at Concentration Camps, ca. 1947–1958

1947-1958

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This series consists of translations of two German documents containing information regarding concentration camp personnel and activities at various concentration camps from 1933 to 1945. The documents originated with the Third U.S. Army and were processed by the Documents Unit, Records Subsection, War Crimes Branch, United States Forces European Theater in October 1945. The series was maintained by the Captured Records Section. Information is provided about crimes committed at the camps at Gross-Rosen, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrueck, Lichtenburg, Esterwegen, Buchenwald, Natzweiler, and, Mauthausen. Specific methods of torturing and killing of inmates are given, with names of those alleged to have tortured and/or killed the inmates.

8 pages

eng, Latn

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