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| Volume |
I |
| Subdivision |
The Case Against the Nazi Secret Police, Security and Intelligence System and Ernst Kaltenbrunner |
| Part |
Not applicable |
| Section |
"Murder of Captured Airmen" (.PDF) |
| Title |
"Shot-down enemy-flyers" (.PDF); "Lynching of Captured Airmen" (.PDF) ; "Kaltenbrunner and AMT IV" (.PDF) |
| Pages |
5 |
| Pages Supplemental |
Unpaginated, including title page. |
| Date |
12 June 1944; 30 May 1944; 17 July 1945 |
| Language |
English |
| Author |
Wiebens (?); Bormann; unnamed |
| Witness |
Schellenberg |
| Other Names |
Somann; Dr. Christmann; Kaltenbrunner; Muller; Schuschnigg; Giraud; Poncet; Himmler; Eichmann; Steimle; Dohnany; Canaris; Guderian; Skorzeny; Guenther; Schaeffer; Goering; Hitler |
| Other Dates |
21 April 1944; 8 June 1944; 20 July 1944; April 1945 |
| Abstract |
This section comprises three separate documents related to the retributive lynching of Allied airmen by the general populace. The first document remarks, "German soldiers [can] not be presumed to give their protection to the assassins of the German people." The second document, which claims that British and American flyers have strafed women, children, and other unarmed civilians, is intended to exonerate and protect the German people who have summarily lynched the crews of such aircraft upon capture. The third document, an extract from an interrogation of Schellenberg, is a wider review of the authority of Kaltenbrunner over the activities of Amt IV, particularly his oversight of concentration camps. Schellenberg cites a number of instances in which Kaltenbrunner ordered prisoners executed, including Polish and Russian workers, and English and American POWs. Similarly, Schellenberg testifies that Kaltenbrunner "ordered all police services to work up the feeling of the German population to take ruthless action against any Allied pilots baling out of planes" (final page). These documents are typewritten carbon copies of good quality on slightly browning, stable paper. |
| Keywords |
Allied airmen; Lynch-law; Russian workers; Polish workers; Concentration camps: Mauthausen, Ravensbruck, Buchenwald, Stutthof; Swedish Red Cross; Jewish questions; Seydlitz committee; English POWs; American POWs; Norwegian Jews; German traitors; Allied pilots; War crimes; Crimes against military personnel; Crimes against civilians |