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Himmler Hitler Heydrich Jäckel Auschwitz Wannsee conference CSDIC UK: “Camp 11”: High-ranking German and Italian prisoners were held for months at the luxurious Engish country mansion, Latimer House, in Buckinghamshire (now a business conference centre). Every room, tree and park-bench was equipped with hidden microphones.
CSDIC (and others): German officers talk in Allied captivity about Himmler and the SS, and are overheard and secretly recorded Dossier on Intelligence issues raised (May 1945) if these transcripts were allowed in war crimes trials (they were not): proposal | objections [note that Cavendish Bentinck said Aug 1943 there were no Intelligence data of gas chambers ] A British officer, von Schlieben and Broich discuss Stauffenberg and the failed July 20 putsch in early Aug 1944 Göring’s ADC
Bodenschatz and Bassenge talk about Himmler, knowledge of the camps and atrocities, Dresden air raid, Carinhall and corruption Dornberger and Roehricht talk about V2 rocket, atom bomb, July 20 putsch, and the attack on Russia Sponeck, Reimann, Sattler and Neuffer talk about SS atrocities in Poland, 1939, and the treatment of Russian prisoners, 1941-2 Karl Bodenschatz on relations between Himmler and top Nazis, and the Final Solution Von Woyrsch thinks Himmler could have claimed defence of
“superior orders” Son of Graf von Helldorff talks in Aug 1944 about his father’s knowledge of 1933 Reichstag fire origins Hitler’s failed generals Von Choltitz and Von Schlieben forget their oath: We should have killed him SS Oberführer Meyer and Gen d Pz Tr Eberbach talk about Churchill in Athens, and the July 20 Putsch: what the field marshals knew in advance of it General von Hippel had Apr 1945 orders “from Himmler” to send 550 Russian prisoners to Kahla for gassing Intelligence dossier on
SS Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chef RSHA (pdf, 3.5MB) German army and navy officers on defects in Himmler’s character Generalleutnant Elfeldt relates what a Pionieroffizier told him about the Babi Yar (?) massacre Officers talk about Himmler, SS discipline, and patrols behind the lines in US uniform German army officers compare the energy of Himmler, Halder, Brauchitsch, Zeitzler “The S.S. man kicked the Jewish woman, who was highly pregnant” Lt Gen Werner Bruns overheard
on Apr 25, 1945: he witnessed the mass shootings at Riga, Nov 1941 LtGen Kittel witnessed the mass shootings at Dvinsk, blames Himmler, does not think Hitler knew Standartenführer Lingner (17 SS Pz.
Div.) talks about Himmler, Feb 1945 [ German , and English translation ] Karl Wolff, Harster and Dollmann talk about Himmler and the end of the war Meyer, Eberding, Tresckow, Wülfingen, Wahle talk about Himmler , before war’s end, 1945 Army Oberfeldwebel of 334 Division and an SS-Oberscharführer talk
on Nov 18, 1943 about Himmlers generosity, severity Berger talks about pressure on Himmler to release four Swedes sentenced for spying Unteroffizier Decker tells a joke about Himmler, Hitler, Goebbels, and university degrees How Felix Kersten persuaded Himmler to released prisoners from camps Konteradm.
Engel and others talk about Himmler’s speeches 1943/1944 on Ausrottung der Juden Steengracht talks about Himmler’s activities in Denmark, 1943 Jubilant mood in British prison camp on hearing news of Jul 20, 1944 Attentat Papen talks about Himmler’s role in Jul 20, 1944 putsch, and peace feelers to west or east Generalmaj Dr Reiter talks with Genaralmaj Franz about Himmler’s prior knowledge of Jul 20 Attentat Fallschirm propaganda reporter gives (flawed) eye witness account of People’s Court
hearing against Witzleben et al. after Bomb Plot against Hitler Göring’s last talk with Himmler, Apr 20, 1945 Steengracht recalls Himmler’s dealings with the interim government of Dönitz, May 1945 Vaterrodt knows something about Himmler in Soldatenrat 1918/1919 Generalmajor Bassenge talks about SS intrigues in Bucharest: Killinger and Gerstenberg Generalmajor Bassenge talks about SS, Kluge, Hausser and “Sepp” Dietrich Gen d Pztruppe von Thoma talks about Bürgermoor KZ, and Himmler’s dislike
of it Richard Walther Darré tells an American Army Officer about Himmler’s wife General dz Pz Tr Hans Cramer praises “Sepp” Dietrich, quality of SS troops Generalmajor Broich contrasts characters of Heydrich and Himmler, Jun 1943 Interrogations of Gutgesell, Fälschlein British army war diary entries on Himmler’s death (extracts) Franz von Papen offsets death camps against “300,000 killed in Dresden” British Intelligence resume of Heydrich’s life, issued on the day of attempt on his life, May
27, 1942 Darré talks about Bormann, Esser, Buch, Hitler, and the emergence of the sinister side of Himmler Darré talks about Himmler’s Far East foreign connections Adolf Galland talks about Himmler’s ambition to take over Luftwaffe Gefr. Pfaffenberger on prisoners at Buchenwald locked up by Himmler for eccentric reasons Gen d PzTr Von Thoma talks to Kpt. z. S.
Meixner about Röhm’s ambitions, and Himmler’s fate Hptm Kreutzberg tells Fähnrich von Tirpitz of Himmler’s concern for Dr Ley’s drinking Gen d PzTr Eberbach and SS Oberführer Meyer talks about Himmler, Hitler, and massacre of Jews Extracts from CSDIC reports, selected for the light that officer-prisoners throw on Heinrich Himmler General Karl Koller tells Overst Edgar Petersen of the reasons for Hermann Fegelein’s execution Generals Kammhuber and Weise speculate on Himmler’s knowledge of
July 20. 1944 plot Generalleutnant Broich’s wife writes letters to him in British captivity, Jun 1944, about meeting with Stauffenberg General Eberbach (7. Armee) asked Himmler, Apr 1944, the reason for his “inhuman treatment of the Jews” General Reinecke believes Hitler visited Dachau in 1939 to see a concentration camp for himself. Did he? [ Himmler Index ]