LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS
RELATING TO THE SCHUTZSTAFFELN (SS)

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at the Nurnberg trial. A double
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number indicates that the docu-
ment was referred to during the
trial but was not formally received
in evidence, for the reason given in
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plan for the attack on Czechoslo-
vakia), kept by Schmundt, Hitler's
adjutant, April-October 1938.
(USA 26)...

Top Secret Operational Order to
Order No. 21, signed by Keitel,
13 March 1941, concerning Direc-
tives for special areas. (USA 135). III
Collection of four documents on
execution by gas, June 1942, one
signed by Dr. Becker, SS Unter-
sturmfuehrer at Kiev, 16 May
1942. (USA 288)..
Report of Public Prosecutor Gen-
eral in Munich, 1 June 1933, con-
cerning murder of Dr. Strauss in
Dachau by an SS guard. (USA
450)...

Report to Public Prosecutor Gen-
eral in Munich, 1 June 1933, con-
cerning murder of Hausmann in
Dachau by an SS guard. (USA
451)..

Report to Public Prosecutor Gen-
eral in Munich, 1 June 1933, con-
cerning murder of Schloss in
Dachau by an SS guard. (USA
452)..

Report to Public Prosecutor Gen-
eral in Munich, 1 June 1933, con-
cerning murder of Nefzger in
Dachau by an SS guard. (USA
453)..

Secret Hitler Order, 17 August
1938, concerning organization and
mobilization of SS. (USA 443).... III
Thierack's notes, 18 September
1942, on discussion with Himmler
concerning delivery of Jews to

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Himmler for extermination
through work. (USA 218)...
Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich
Chancellor to strengthen German
Folkdom, 7 October 1939, signed
by Hitler, Goering, Lammers and
Keitel. (USA 305)...

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Secret letter of Keitel, 8 July 1943,
concerning manpower for coal min-
ing. (USA 455).
Disciplinary and Penal Measures
for Concentration Camp Dachau
and Service Regulations for the
Camp Personnel, signed Eicke, 1
October 1933. (USA 247).
Memorandum by Minister of Jus-
tice, Guertner, of conference with
Himmler, 9 March 1936, concern-
ing issuance of decree on use of
arms by concentration camp offi-
cials...

Letter from Rainer to Seyss-
Inquart, 22 August 1939 and re-
port from Gauleiter Rainer to
Reichskommissar Gauleiter
Buerckel, 6 July 1939 on events in
the NSDAP of Austria from 1933
to 11 March 1938. (USA 61)....
Official report of Stroop, SS and
Police Leader of Warsaw, on de-
struction of Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.
(USA 275)..

Mueller's order, 17 December 1942,
concerning prisoners qualified for
work to be sent to concentration
camps. (USA 219)..

Letter from WVHA, 28 March
1942, concerning "Action 14 F 13"

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from files of Gross Rosen Concen-
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Interoffice memorandum of
WVHA, 15 August 1944, concern-
ing number of prisoners and survey
of prisoners clothing. (USA 458).. III
Reports concerning the confisca-
tion of Polish agricultural prop-
erties, 16 and 29 May 1940, signed
Kusche. (USA 176). .
Decree assigning functions in Of-
fice of Chief of German Police,
26 June 1936. 1936 Reichs Minis-
terialblatt, pp. 946–948.....
Letter from SS Sturmbannfuehrer
Brandt to Dr. Rascher, 22 May
1941, concerning use of prisoners
for high-flight research. (USA 462). IV
Letter from Himmler, 16 Novem-
ber 1942, concerning feminine pris-
oners in concentration camps.
(USA 465).....
Teletype from Goering to Himm-
ler, 14 February 1944, concerning
formation of 7th Airforce Group
squadron for special purposes.
(USA 221).....
Correspondence between Himmler
and Goering, 9 March 1944, con-
cerning use of concentration camp
inmates in aircraft industry. (USA
457).

Letter from Dr. Rascher to Himm-
ler, 15 May 1941, asking for use of
prisoners for experiments in high-
altitude flights. (USA 454)...
Letter from Dr. Rascher to Himm-
ler, 17 February 1943, concerning
freezing experiments.....

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Letter from Himmler to General
Field Marshal Milch, 13 Novem-
ber 1942, concerning transfer of
Dr. Rascher to Waffen-SS. (USA
466).

Report of Freezing experiments in
Dachau, 15 August 1942, signed
by Dr. Rascher. (USA 464)...
Order of Himmler, 23 June 1938,
concerning acceptance of members
of Security Police into the SS.
1938 Reichs Ministerialblatt, pp.
1089-1091...

"Ten Years Security Police and
SD" published in The German
Police, 1 February 1943. (USA
477)..

Decree enforcing law for securing
the unity of Party and State, 29
March 1935. 1935 Reichsgesetz-
blatt, Part I, p. 502...
Letter to all concentration camp
commanders, from Gluecks, 12
May 1944, concerning assignment
of prisoners for experimental pur-
poses. (USA 468)..

The Security Squadron as an Anti-
Bolshevist Battle Organization
1936 by Himmler from The New
Germany Speaks Here, book 11.
(USA 440)...

"Law" from The German Police,
1941, by Dr. Werner Best. (USA
449) (See Chart No. 16.)....
Announcement of creation of SS as
independent formation of NSDAP.
Voelkischer Beobachter, 26 July
1934, p. 1. (USA 412).