Documents on the deputy commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz,

Hans Aumeier

from the Public Record Office, London and other sources

In 1946 the Foreign office was asked by the Bavarian justice ministry what had happened to Aumeier -- had he been handed over to the Poles? Despite inquiries, they could find no files relating to him at all (PRO file FO.371/104156)

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Hans Aumeier on trial in Krakau, Poland (centre of photo)

Index
to papers on Hans Aumeier

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[under construction; note, the large PDF files have been temporarily disabled for space reasons]

• Transcript of typescript questionnaire to Hans Aumeier (undated)

Answers by Hans Aumeier, Oslo, Jun 29, 1945 (in German, 2.1MB pdf file); pages 1-11 handwritten, pp. 12-14 typed and signed by Aumeier ("Im Juli 1930 bin ich...") [transcribed below].

• Transcript of above handwritten statement by Hans Aumeier, Oslo, June 29, 1945 | corrected | comments by transcriber

Handwritten answers, 17 pages, by Hans Aumeier, [Oslo, June or July? 1945] (in German, 2.4MB pdf file) ("Unter Führung des Lagerkommandanten waren die einzelnen...") [transcribed below].

• Transcript of above handwritten statement by Hans Aumeier, Oslo, July(?) 1945 | comments by transcriber

Handwritten answers by Hans Aumeier, Oslo, Jul 25, 1945 (in German, 1.9MB pdf file: "Nach bestem Wissen...") [transcribed below].

• Transcript of above handwritten statement by Hans Aumeier, Oslo, Jul 25, 1945

Handwritten answers by Hans Aumeier, Oslo, 1945 (in German, 8MB pdf file) ("Persönliche Angaben. Am 20.8.1906 bin ich...")

• PWIS Det (N)/18, Report on Interrogation of Prisoner No. 211 Stubaf Aumeier, Hans. Akershus Prison [Oslo], Aug 10, 1945 (text file) | appendix I: Personalities at Auschwitz as given by SS Stubaf Hans Aumeier Aug 10, 1945 [Both from US files]
• Index card on Aumeier, Hans, Aug 18, 1945

  List of prisoners in Akershus who were henchmen of Aumeier in Auschwitz and other camps, Jan 1946 and their statements about him and Auschwitz (in German, text files):

• Statement by prisoner Eduard Schmid, Oct 26, 1945
• Statement by prisoner Ernst Moritz, Oct 26, 1945
• Statement by prisoner Ernst Moritz, Oct 28, 1945
• Statement by prisoner Kurt Heinrich, Oct 27, 1945
• Statement by prisoner Joseph Rummel, Oct 27, 1945
• Statement by prisoner Josef Remmele, Oct 27, 1945
• Statement by prisoner Ludwig Blatterspiel, Oct 27, 1945
• Statement by prisoner Karl Heimann, January 9, 1946

Hans Aumeier typescript: "Bericht über den Aufbau der Konzentrationslager", Oslo, Oct 8, 1945 (in German, 1.1MB pdf file: "Im Jahre 1933 wurden...")

• Part transcript (one paragraph) of above "Bericht über den Aufbau der Konzentrationslager", Oslo, Oct 8, 1945

Herbert Noot (Ltr, Abt.III, BdS Norwegen): "Errichtung eines KZ in Mhysen," Jan 8, 1946 (336K, in German, 3 pages, pdf)

[Aumeier was brought from Norway to London in Jan 1946 and held in PW Camp 17 Sheffield for two months before being sent to BAOR on Apr 9, 1946.]

Two short letters by Hans Aumeier on P/W stationery, to Jouko Itälä (Helsinki) and Klaus Ous (Red Cross, Mhysen), London, Jan 27, 1946. (164K, in German, 4 pages, pdf) Note that the letters were retained by Lt Col Scotland, and not forwarded.

• WCIU/LDC/982: Report on Interrogation of PW LD.1135 Stubaf Hans Aumeier [at London District Cage, Kensington Palace Gardens], dated Jan 28, 1946 [Website note: Recall that this was over two months before Rudolf Höss was captured.]
• Judge Advocate General writes Mar 9, 1946 to Lt. Col Scotland asking for Aumeier to be interrogated by London District Cage (1 page, text)
• JAG confirms to LDC Aug 27, 1946 that Aumeier is wanted by Jugoslavia (1 page, text)
• JAG confirms Sep 13, 1946 that Aumeier is now held at CIC Paderborn, Germany (1 page text)

• On Jan. 28, 1999 "Samuel Crowell" offers a commentary on the Aumeier materials
• "Crowell":, Jan 8, 2003: Did Aumeier become more lurid as time passed?
• The Krakau Trial of the Auschwitz Criminals: summary (German) with photos | video [avi] [exe]

   

Reader Glenn Yagos comments:

From the rough translation I got from Altavista it seems that Aumeier was talking about gassings at Auschwitz. Is this correct?

Mr Irving replies:

I have to be cautious in my reply, until I have finished posting this Aumeier material. I am unhappy about this material for several reasons. It is very similar to the Höss material. But in both cases we are confronted with the obstacle: if all this was going on, why is there no hint of it in the secret cipher messages being sent by Höss and Liebehenschel from Auschwitz to Berlin, which we British intercepted? There are hundreds of them, and I have read them.
    On the one hand, actual cipher messages: hard evidence; on the other, confessions obtained by duress, soft evidence which no British court would accept. But historians apply different criteria sometimes. As said, a difficult conundrum.--David Irving