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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV
Document No. 2189-PS

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TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2189-PS
SS Economic Administrative Main Office
Office Group Chief D
Concentration camps, D 1/Az: 14e 3/L/Ot.
Oranienburg, 11 Aug. 1942.

Re: Punishment by Beating.

Ref: none
Encl: none

To the camp commandants of concentration camps. Da, Sah, bu, Mau, flo, Neu, Au, Gr-Ro, Natz, Nie, Stu, Arb, Rav, and prisoner of war camp Lublin.

The Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police has ordered that punishment by beating will be executed in concentration camps for women by prisoners-under the ordered supervision.

In order to coordinated this order the main office chief of the main SS Economic Administration Office, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer and general of the Waffen-SS Pohl, has ordered, effective immediately, that punishment by beating will also be executed by prisoners in concentration camps for men.

It is forbidden to have foreign prisoners execute the punishment on German prisoners.

The order for punishment will read on page 2 under "executors".

The following prisoners have executed physical punishment on the-

1. ................... prison number
2. ................... prison number

[signature illegible]
SS-Brigadefuehrer and Major General of the Waffen-SS
Source:
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV
Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1946

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