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Record Group 153

Military Agency Records

The War Department and the Army Records

Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General

NARA Explanation for Record Group 153 (see "Case Files 1944-1949 (Entry 143)

http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/military/rg-153.html

 

Three statements from American POWs discuss having seen Jewish prisoners shot near Gusen. The location of these statements: US v Altfuldisch et al. 153 Entry 143 270/1/14-15/6-1 Box 8 Vol. 1

 

S/Sgt. Willard Oliphant Elliot, pro-baseball player from Akron, OH

S/Sgt.Olin E. Brown from Quitman, GA

T/Sgt. Stanley J. Vaughn, from Los Angeles, CA

 

 

Record Group 238 World War II War Crimes Records

NARA Explanation for Record Group 238

http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/238.html

 

International Military Tribunal Exhibit 249 known as the

"Cohen Report"

 

Other documents from Record Group 238

 

USA Exibit 492 2

January 1941 Reclassification of Concentration Camps

RG 238 Entry 2a 190/11/1/7 Box 45 

 

Record Group 549 Records of the US Army Europe

NARA Explanation of Record Group 549

http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/549.html#top

 

Francisco Boix Photographs (last two of Gusen)

Record Group 549 Entry 290 59/12/4 Box 345 Folder 5

 

Documents relating to Gusen

 

Statements 

 

British POW John Arthur Carter arrested in 1944 and sent to Gusen. He had been in charge of an undercover operation behind enemy lines to save downed Allied pilots.

Record Group  549  Entry  290 59/12/3 Box 335

 

Franz Doppelreiter, former camp guard and Political Department clerk who explains the process for reporting the shooting deaths of prisoners. In Doppelreiter’s experience, guards routinely signed under the explanation that they had shot the prisoner. No further inquiry was necessary.

Record Group  549  Entry  290  59/05/04  JAG  War  Crimes  Cases  Tried  Box  336

 

US T/3 Gerard Oppenheimer who discovered Haupsturmführer Georg Bachmayer’s body.

Record Group  549  Entry  290  59/05/04  JAG  War  Crimes  Cases  Tried Box  334

 

Hermann Schinlauer Statement

Record Group 549 Entry 290 59/5/4 Jag War Crimes Cases Tried Box 336

As a clerk in the political office of Gusen I, Schinlauer observed how the book Unnatural Causes of Death was kept.

 

Dusan Teodorovic

Record Group 549 Entry 290 59/5/4 Jag War Crimes Cases Tried Box 336

Witnessed abuse of Russian POWs by SS Herman Hartung

 

Reports

 

Interrogation Report

RG  549  Entry  290  59.5.4  JAG  War  Crimes  Cases  Tried  Box  335Brigadier General S.F. Peabody, GCS, Chief Military Intelligence Service,  Report of captured POW information obtained between November 1944 and May 1945. Section III about Gusen reports a former GAF enlisted man’s experience after being transferred with a company of 600 to guard duty at Gusen under SS supervision in April  to August 1944. Interesting to note that the POW says that there were between 14000 and 16000 prisoners at Gusen and that they were working at either the quarry or an underground Messerschmitt factory at St. Georg [sic]. Reports a smaller camp “a branch of Gusen itself” contained perhaps 5000 prisoners [probably referring to Gusen II]. POW learned from crematorium capo that 4,000 bodies were  cremated at Gusen in fiscal year 1943-1944. Also reports that rural police (Landesjaeger) helped to capture escaped prisoners.

 

OSS Report on Concentration Camp Mauthausen-Gusen

24 May 1945

Located in the Judge Advocate General War Crimes Cases Tried Files

Record Group 549 Entry 290 59/12/3 Box 335

 

Joseph Latzel, DEST Personnel File

Record Ggroup 549  Entry 290 59/12/3 Box 335

 

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