UNITED NATIONS v7AR CRIMES COiiMISSICif (Research Offico) R * . D0CUUEHT5 SERIES • J-: S'jJ. • ’’ >V: •.* MV. ‘ • V V* ' > /.* 'N. • '! ¡-y /'•'A* R/G/22/2A No. 27. February^ 1946. .... .;.': *•'■•-'.•'r"V '"’• ’ ' •'" ’ : THE THEHESISISTADT (TBREZUI) CQNCBf TRATICST GAUP ..” ■; . • .. ■ ■ ■ . ■ .* .. ■• •' ■/ .. v ;• -■:■• NOTE: •' 3he following report by the Czechoslovak T7ar Crimes Offioo at Wiesbaden has been communicated to tho mft/CC by tho-Czechoslovak Commissioner; The authorof. thoRoport has added‘that theCzecho- • • 3l.ovak' tban is engaged in tracing the ofguards the .... • canp; . There wore two different canps at Therosi.en&tadt during-tho occupation. One of then callod "Bio Snail Portress” originated .so that all tho civilian •inhabitants of tho town (Theresienstadt) were evacuated and a. Ghetto was formed in the towni ■ Jews vroro then sent to this canp and they cone not only from Czechoslovakia but from Germany and frcm. all Golman-occupiod countries as well. The town- Theresienstadt was built as a. military fortress during the reign of Mario-Theresa, on the sano pattern as Josofoir. .During the tine of tho first Ropub-lic. there v/as a large military garrison, as .the town had not changed much in its architectural structure, nevertheless, there wore.about 5.000 civilian inhabitants ¿Lying in tho town. During the time of the .first Republic thero was a population (civilian and military) of about 8,000 porson3 and the town was probably-not capable of accom­ modating more than this numbor. After $tio forming of the Ghetto, however, 40,000 to 60,C00 Jew«* wore living in exactly the sane living space during tho ¿x-y' occupation, and owing to this number, conditions in the. carp can \to11 bo imagined. Besides this Theresienstadt was a sort of 11 transit-station" for those Jows who '>7sre later sent to Oswi&czin or other rarrps so that living conditions in the canp continued to deteriorate all the time. The Kini3try of Interior can supply the exact numbor of inhabitants and further details of tho oanp ;itsolf. The Ministry of Interior has the'_( archives of the formor Jewish religious .bocjy by whom, by way of "self-government" Theresienstadt was run. ’ Those mainly responsible for conditions in Thorosienstadt ore: (1^ SS Sturnbannftthror Gtlnthor, commander of the German office in Prague. (2) SS HStuf. Dr. Siegfried Soldi, b o m 1911# from Vienna. Tho first conritfidor of Theresienstadt; during M s activity several persons were exocuted in /, January and February 1942; •'• Dr. Soldi la tor loft for Bolson camp. (3) SS H±C. Ernst iioos bo m on -January 30th, 1898, working with the Principal Roich Security Office, nombors of which wont to Theresienstadt from time to time usually before the departure of mass—transports to Oswiocsim and on tho occasions of other important events. (4) SS Ostuf. Anton Burger, b o m on November 19th .1911» from Brno. Tho second commander of Theresienstadt and ter.Ards the end clerk of the Principal Roich Security Offico in Berlin. (5) SS Ostuf. Karol Rahm bora on April 2nd, 1907, from Vienna. The last commander of Theresienstadt. (6.) SS Hstuf. Hoinrich Clausen, about 40 yoars old, the chiof of the economic department in Thorosienstadt. PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/ffdcd8/ (7 SS Oatuf. Karol Borgel, “born March 21st, 1902. Tho inspector of tho canp; ho interrogated the oulprits find v/as ono. of the nost feared non. (8 SS Oatuf. Trosohko, approximately 35 yoarn old, chief of ocononic doparfoent * . in Thorosionstadt. (9 SS Hstuf. Hoinrioh iiinno, born on liay 2fjth, 1909, chief of eoononic depart- *nont in Thorosionstadt. 10 SS Ustuf. Gorhard Hohbein, b o m on July 7th, 1912, vrorking in the ocononic dopartnent in Thorosionstadt. 11 SS Hstuf. Paul Syndorhauf, b o m on January 4th, 1906, vrorking in tho ocono­ nic department ,;in Thorosionstadt. 12 SS Hstuf. Ernst Htiller, b o m on January 16th, 1918, fron soney/here in Horavia, v/orking in tho ocononic dopartnent in Thoresienstadt. 13 SS Ustuf. Heinrich Scholz, b o m on January 18th, 1914, the last chief of the economic departnont in Theresienstadt. 14 SS Ustuf; Fritz BUtrusch, b o m on April 18th, 1896, from Dresden', ADC and deputy to tho commander of Therasionstadt. • 15 SS Hscharf. Hans Vostreiy.bom on August 10th, 1904, from Vienna, Chief of the transport department in Therosienstadt. 16 SS Hscharf. Kurt Ulbricht, b o m on September 26th, 1914, ahiof of the pro­ duction departnont in Thoresienstadt. 17 SS Hscharf. Hans Ledoror, b o m on June 16th, 1912, chief of the economic department - agriculture. 18 SS Oscharf. Han3 Baumgartner, b o m on December 14th, 1920, fron Vienna, guard in.the crematorium. 19 SS Scharf. Rudolf Haindl, b o m un June 22nd, 1912, from Vienna, one of the v/orst members of the garrison in Theresienstadt. 20 SS Oscharf. Josef Czasny, b o m on Juno 22nd, 1912, fron Vienna, driver in Theresienstadt. 21 SS Usctarf. Edgar Puhzo, born on April 21st, 1906, chief of the. Post Offioe in Thorosionstadt. 22 SS Bawerbor Rudolf Yfolentsohka,. bo m on September 3rd, 1908, manager of tho clothing stores. 23 .SS Bewerber Ludvig Netzbauer, b o m on August 14th, 1911, Slovakian, auxiliary omployee in the production department. SS Bowerber Karl walaschek, b o m on January 29th, 1919, Slovakian, driver. ¡ s i SS Bev/erber Leopold Kabenioht, b o m in 1920, Slovakian, driver in Therosien­ stadt. (26J SS Bewerber Czorba, approximately 25 years old, driver. .. 1275 SS Bev/erber Albert Poliak, b o m on July 30th.I9H , driver. (28) SS Mann Josef Ir.saky, b o m on September 17th, 1900, Slqvakian, Garage manager.. This enumeration is certainly incomplete and the Czechoslovak Ministry of Interior will probably complete it. Thi3 Mission is filing \7antod Reports for all the above named and vriLll traoo these persons. A part of the town-Thorosionstadt (but not a part of the camp Theresienstadt) v/as "The Small Fortress". The Small Fortress v/as actually an affiliated prison to the German police prison in Prague, but it had it3 own administration and it also kept prisoners who -were not handed over to any court. In this prison there wore prisoners v/ho wore being oxaninod, persons sentenced by the Gestapo to a police-sentence, and also those Y/ho av/aited transportation to further concentration oanps or to various Goman courts. About 5,000 - 6,000 political prisoners used to be in this prison \athout distinction of religion. Commander of this camp ;va3 ¿Toeckel who has just been surrendered to us by the American authorities. PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/ffdcd8/ Wf»- Conditions were vuuch v/orse in this oaqp than in the Ghetto as in this canp thoro wore political prisoners. Interrogations were carriod out thoro whioh were of such a character that oven the officials of the Gestapo in Prague could not* bring themselvos to carry thon out in such a nanner, and apart fron that "inconvenient" prisoner® and witnesses v/ore "liquidated" there. "Sondarbohandlung" (i.e. shooting or execution without a trial) was also carried out there. Almost' all parachutists and all Da jor prisoners wore kopt in this prison. ;7hile from the Ghetto Jows were sent for agricultural labour*. or for labour in the nearby surroundings, the political prisoners (including Jor./s. v/ho v/ore apart from thoir race, also imprisoned because of political reasons), worked on the hardest jobs, in the building of the underground air factory idne Richard", in the Schict factories in Usti n/1. on the unloading of coal and other goods from the cargo boats at Lovosice and in Usti n/1» otc. An exact outline of the conditions in the police prison in Theresienstadt and also the list of all conmanders and guards fron this prison will oortainly be supplied by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Interior. This list was iaade irxaediately after the uprising. (Signed) Cap ta in Dr. Hrbek, PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/ffdcd8/.