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By authority of
SCAEF
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Data: ...6 JUL 1945...
Supreme Headquarters
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
AB 000.5-2 GAP-AGM
APO 757 (Main)
6 July 1948
SUBJECT: War Crimes.
TO : Headquarters, 21 Army Group (Attn: 'A' Branch)
The attached statement purporting to offer proof of the commission
of war crime is forwarded for your attention.
By direction of the Supreme Commander:
E. E. NEWMAN
Colonel, ACD
Assistant Adjutant General
1 Inel:Statement of Ing. Szymon [sic.] | SECRET
May 25, 1945.
To the U.S. Camp Commander,
Camp Mauthausen.
Sir,-
Having spent a number of years in thirteen Nazi con-
centration camps, including Mauthausen from which I was
liberated by the American forces on May 5th and where I
still am staying at the present, and desirous to be of
help to the U.S. authorities in their effort to bring
the Nazi criminals to account, I take the liberty of sub-
mitting the following:
1. As all of the camps where I was confined are
located in the zones taken by the Soviet armies, it is
my conviction that those responsible for the atrocities
committed therein by the SS men are not to be found in
the eastern parts of Europe but should be sought either
in Southern or Western Germany.
2. I am enclosing a brief list of those whom I
have seen in these various camps and whom I can recog-
nize on sight. Many of these have caused incalculable
sufferings to myself as well as to my fellow inmates.
Many of these I have personally seen commit murder
phantastic both in number and method. As shown, some
of them had either their homes or relatives living in
localities now under Allied occupation.
3. With all of the members of my family and of my
nearest relatives killed by the Nazis, I am asking of
your kindness to place me at the disposal of the U.S.
authorities investigating war crimes. Although I am a
Polish citizen and would like to return to my homestead,
I feel that the crimes of these men are of such magnitude,
that no effort can be spared to apprehend them. I also
feel that it is my duty to offer my services either for
the purpose of furnishing the description of their mid-
deeds or as an eyewitness in case identification is needed.
4. To furnish you with the personal data regarding
my person, a brief curriculum vitae is attached.
Respectfully,
/s/ Ing. Wiesenthal Szymon
Szymon Wiesenthal(Camp Mauthausen, 127371). |
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The following is a brief list of SS men and Gestapo agents
as well as Nazi party members whom I had the opportunity of seeing
to partake in murder and other crimes against human life. They are
classified in this list into two groups, those who were in the general
district of Galicia, and those of Camp Cracow-Plaskow. Where known,
their home addresses are given.
District GALICIA (Lemberg)
1. KATZMANN, Gen.-Maj.SS. Responsible for death of at
least 1.000.000 people.
2. KRIEGER, Maj.Gen SS. Killed personally. On Aug. 18,
1941 finished personally 13.000 people by
shooting.
3. LEHNERT,) Both UntStFr and aides to Gen.Katzmann. Both
4. WERKE, ) killers.
5. ENGELS, Gestapokommissar. Timekeeper and schedule
maker for mass killing throughout Galicia.
6. LEITMEIER, OBStFr. Chief of Lacki prison, worst because
of the tortures practised there.
His lieutenants:
7. WALTKE ) All UntStFrs. Murderers making tours
8. NEUMANN) through various camps under his com-
9. SELLMANN) mand.
10. GROCHOLSKI
11. MARTENS Terror of Gestapo prison in Cracow
12. MANSER Gest. agent (home: Linz)
13. VORABERGER " (home: Linz)
14. CORRADINI " (home: Linz, his wife´s
father a baker there)
15. LADUNER, Karl " (from Innsbruck, a Merchant
16. HAUSER, Karl (Both from Karlsruhe where
17. " , Leo they were grosers)
18. HAHN, Herbert " (from Danzig, merchant)
19. FRIESE " (woman, home Konigsberg.
Murderess)
All above persons "worked" mainly in Litzmann-
stadt and Lemberg territory. By killing made
fortunes appropriating property of victims.
20. GROSS, Georg. Chief of Lemberg railroad shops. (home: Ebers-
walde, Herrengasse, 22. His wife,-Hilda G. was
from Schoneiche, near Berlin). Killed 1.200
Jews in his shop, Lemberg.
21. POST, Wilhelm (from Münster). Lemberg shop official. Maltreated
the prisoners and caused hundreds of death.
22. LINDNER (from Dresden). Ditto. | SECRET
27. HASSE Responsible for several thousands of deaths.
28. KIPKO UntStFr. Ditto
29. WARZOK HptStFr. Beast who liquidated at least 60,000
Jews and used to burn prisoners alive in their
barracks (camps Lacki, Jaryczow, Grodek)
30. SCHULZE ObStFr. Camp Cdr in Mosty Wielkie. 1,500 deaths.
31. HILDEBRAND ObStFr. (from Breslau) Cdr of camp Drohobycz
who finished that camp with 3,500 deaths.
32. SCHONBACH
33. KOLANKO, Adolf (from Katovitz)
34. DYGA
35. KALIS (from Litzmannstadt)
36. KAUSER
37. HEINE (SS Leibst.Hitler Div) Worst sadist and killer
using ax only.
His lieutenants:
38. WURZ )
39. BLUM, a mass murderer. ) All three from Bat-
40. MARZ schka, Hungary
41. VOESKE UntStFr
42. BIERMANN " (from Katowitz, a butcher)
43. Brumbauer " (from Katowitz, "
The last two specialized in hanging
and chopping men alive.
44. GEBAUER HptStFr. )
)
His lieutenants: )
45. MILKA ) Killed 7,000 on Nov. 18, 1943
46. KRUMBACH ) in Lwow
47. CRAMBOW )
48. GÜRTEN, Eduard UntStFr. (from Wiesbaden, Robert Kochstrasse, a
butcher). Finished people in their sickness.
About 700-800 victims in Lemberg and Auschwitz.
Camp CRACOW-PLASHOW
49. GOETH, Amond HptStFr. (Vienna, parents own big publishing
house). Greatest killer of all. His victims
run into thousands. Master of cruelties.
50. GRIMM Goeth's deputy. Introduced keenest sadism.
51. ZDRAJEWSKI, Z. ObStFr. (from Karlsruhe. Mother: Lotti Z.) Killer
of first magnitude.
52. JOHN, Leo UntStFr. from Katowitz, owner of a restaurant
opposite Rwy station there). Specialty: killing
women and children. Victims run into thousands.
53. BEHR, Otto From Breslau. Cruel Arbeitskommandoführer.
54. NESCHELL, Otto UntStFr. From Vienna. Ditto.
55. LANDSDORFER HptStFr. Liquidated Camp
Szebnia. 3000 deaths. |
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56. SCHEID UntStFr. From Breslau. Conducted killing of about
4 500 Jews in transit to ghetto.
57. SCHERER Killed sick in the hospital.
58. LUDOLF HptStFr. From Hamburg.
59. NUJAR UntStFr. Winner of numerous wagers by sending one
bullet through two heads at a time.
60. N_RNER HptStFr.
61. KOCH UntStFr. From Vienna.
62. KUNDE HptStFr. From Hamburg. A Gestapo agent for liqui-
dation of Jewish camps.
63. HEINRICH HptStFr. Medical student from Katowitz. Well known
sportsman. Kunde's assistant.
64. PILARCZYK HptStFr. From Katowitz. Liquidated the Cracow
Ghetto.
65. von MALUTKY HptStFr. From Vienna. Pilarzcyk's assistant.
66. ECKERT " Camp's recorder. Many cruelties.
67. SCHUPKE " Liquidated Reichshof Camp, killing thousands
of victims. Finished in Cracow several
contingents, where American lives were
lost. (I saw 13 men with American passports
killed by him on August, 1944.)
68. MÜLLER, Franz " From Bad-Essen (an upholsterer). Caused
50,000 deaths in Bosnia.
69. UNTERGRUCHER HptSchFr. From Dachau (city, not camp). Sadist
in Camp Szebnia.
70. LIED UntSchFr. Degenrat collector of his victims' sculls.
71. BAUEROKSE " Killer.
72. BECHER ObStFr. Killer of sick in hospitals.
His lieutenants:
73. MAJER, Heinrich )
74. BREIER, Willi ) All Gestapo agents. Sadist
75. THOMKE, Otto ) cruelties against Jews.
76. FRONER Gestapo agent. "Worked" in Bosnia. Specialising in
killing of children.
77. TANK. Karl ObWchtm. From Schleswig, Busdorfstrasse. Torturing
people to death.
78. BITTIG, Alfred Ob.Wchtm. Also from Schleswig, Dolfusstrasse. Ditto.
79. LUT WchMstr. Former teacher. "Worked" in Bohemia.
80. ROSENBAUM HptStFr. Nephew of wholesale killer General Krieger.
Liquidated all of the 900 jews in Camp Rabka.
81. SCHMIDT HptSchFr. Finished 1200 in Zakopane.
82. HAMAN " Well known hangman in Neu-Sandez. 4000.
83. SCHONBURG UntSchFr. Mad head in
destroying 4000 Jews in Bosnia. | SECRET
84. NICHALSKI UntSchFr. From Katowitz. Sadist from Camp Cracow.
85. KALFUS Sadist from Camp Cracow.
86. KUNKE Ditto.
87. GRÜN RottFr. Ditto
88. ODER " Responsible for many cruelties.
89. HERZOG Woman SS. Caused sufferings to women and children
in Womens' Camp Wennsberg.
90. HEISE, Gertrude " From Holland. Ditto.
91. MEINEL, Anna " Also from Holland. Ditto.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1. General:
a. The following totals of local Jews killed in Galicia
are given here, according to my information:
Camp Cracow - ab. 70,000
" Lemberg - 148,000
Distr.Galicia - 850,000
" Cracow - 350,000
Also, in Camp Yaroslav about 360,000 Russian war prison-
ers were put to death in 1941.
b. Particularly infamous in their deed are to be considered
the SS Brigade "1005" and the SS Brigade "Breslau", which
were assigned as special "Vernichtungsbrigaden".
2. Personalia:
Of the persons among the Nazi administration, the following
two men are to be considered as potentially useful source of
futher information:
SCHMIDT, Werner. An engineer from Halle a.d. Saale.
KOHLRAUS, Adolf A Reichsbahn inspector from Osna-
brück.
These two men our friends and were of great assistance
in preventing many cruelties, while stayioned at the
railroad workshops at Lemberg.
Mauthausen, 25 May 1945 /s/ Ing. Wiesenthal SzymonSzymon Wiesenthal, Ing.
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Curriculum Vitae
of
Ing. WIESENTHAL, Szymon
Born on December 31, 1908, in Buczacz, Poland. My education com-
prises public and high schools in that city, Institute of Technology in
Prague where I received the degree Engineer in Architecture (1932),
State diploma in Architectural Engineering in Poland (1939) with
simultaneous degree of Free Artist from the Polish Academy of Art in
Lemberg (1937).
After the outbreak of the war I stayed in Lemberg and after the entry
of the Red Army continued my work as a construction engineer and a de-
signer of refrigerating plants and other various constructions as well as
private dwellings. During this period I invented an artificial insul-
ation material for which the Soviet Government awarded me a Premium of
25,000 rubles.
When after the outbreak of the German-Soviet war that city was taken
by the German troops, I was immediately arrested on July 13, 1941, as one
of the Jewish intelligentsia. Of independent means, through a bribery I
proceeded in getting out of the prison. Because of the anti-Jewish
restrictions I could not continue my profession of an architect, and worked
for a while as a painter in the railroad shops in Lemberg. On October 20,
1943 I was again arrested for the reason of not having declared my engineer-
ing degree which I in fact did not wish to disclose, not willing to work
for the Germans. After four weeks I was sent back to work at the same
railroad shop as a draftsman where I was kept for almost two years among
other 1500 Jews compelled to labor like myself. It was during this time
that my life was several times placed in extreme danger, and that I lost
both of my parents who were killed by the Nazis. It was also during this
time that I saw mass destruction of Jews in that city, although my own
wife managed to escape to Warsaw. Of her I have not heard since and may
only assume that she perished in that city during the uprising in August,
1944, when 200,000 Jews lost their lives there. It was only through
working in the railroad shops that I managed to survive in the end.
When it became clear to me that Nazis have launched their policy of
the wholesale annihilation of Jews, I escaped on October 18, 1943, from the
Lemberg hard labor camp where I was kept as a prisoner during my two years
of labor at the railroad works (as a prisoner I was sent to the shop daily
under guard with the others) and went into hiding until joining Jewish
partisans on November 21, 1943, who operated there. It was while fighting
in the partisan ranks against the Nazis that we managed to collect and
bury for safekeeping considerable amount of evidence and other materials
proving the crimes committed by Nazis. When the partisans were dispersed by
the Germans I fled to Lemberg on February 10, 1944, and again wnet into
hiding. On June 13, 1944, I was found during a house to house search and
was immediately sent to the famous Lacki camp, near that city. Since there
was no escape for the partisans who were caught, I attempted suicide by
cutting the veins on my arms but was saved.
With the beginning of the Russian offensive, I was sent from one con-
centration camp to another as the result of constant German retreat. These
camps include Przemysl, Dobromil, Chyrow, Sanok, Dukla, Grybow, Neu-Sandez,
Krakow-Plashow, Grossrosen, and Buchenwald. To Mauthausen I came on
February 15, 1945.
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