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70. Ibid. 11 November 1935.
71. BAB, NS 19/3903, 3 Febr uary 1940.
72. BAB, BDC, SS-O Heydrich, note in the file, 2 May 19 37. The ban was
directed at Heydrich and Weitzel.
73. BAB, NS 19/3901, 1 Jul y 1936 and 4 May 1939.
74. Ibid. 31 May 1939.
75. Ibid. order of 13 June 1940.
76. On ideological training in the SS see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 62 ff., and also the
volume of essays edited by Ju
¨
rgen Mattha
¨
us et al., Ausbildungsziel Judenmord?
‘Weltanschauliche Erziehun’ von SS, Polizei und Waffen-SS im Rahmen der ‘End-
lo
¨
sung’ (Frankfurt a. M., 2003) and in particular Ju
¨
rgen Mattha
¨
us’s own essay
‘Die “Judenfrage” als Schulungsthema von SS und Polizei. “Inneres Erlebnis”
und Handlungslegitimation’, 35–86.
77. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 116 ff.
78. Ibid. 94 ff. The first number appeared at the end of 1935 but was then
withdrawn.
79. Ibid. 96 ff.
80.
BAB,
NS 31/234, order of 1 September 1931; on the other hand, Heinemann,
‘Rasse’, 99 ff., sees this order not as a step towards reducing the power of
RuSHA but rather as motivated by financial difficulties.
81. Listed in BAB, NS 2/64; Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 100.
82. BAB, NS 19/ 580, Himmler’s order concerning the establishing of Man-
nschaftsha
¨
user (team houses), 12 February 1939. In the file there is also a list
of existing Mannschaftsha
¨
user and of those to be set up in the near future, as on
22 June 1939; cf. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 92 f.
83. BAB, NS 2/277, directive from the head of the RuSHA, 16 October 1934,
published in Mattha
¨
us et al., Ausbildungsziel Judenmo rd?, doc. no. 1.
84. BAB, NS 2/277, Himmler’s instru ction on ideological training in the SS, 28
June 1937, published in Mattha
¨
us et al., Ausbildungsziel Judenmord?, doc. no. 7.
85. ‘Schulung hat nichts mit Schule zu tun’, Das Schwarze Korps of 17 February
1938.
86.
BAB,
NS 2/277, instruction from the head of RuSHA on the implem entation
of ideological training, 17 February 1936, published in Mattha
¨
us et al., Ausbil-
dungsziel Judenmord?, doc. no. 3. It was not possible to keep to the original
schedule; the time allowed for basic training had to be extended by another
five months; see Mattha
¨
us, ‘“Judenfrage”’, 46.
87. Booklets 1 and 2 were concerned with blood and soil and with the peasa ntry,
booklet 3 with the Jews, booklet 4 with freemasonry and bolshevism, booklets
5 and 6 contain material on German history, booklet 7 deals with traditions.
88. ‘Fru
¨
hjahrswettkampf der SS’, SS-Leitheft , 3/1 (1937), 45–7; ‘Sonnenwend-
ka
¨
mpfe der SS’, SS-Leitheft, 3/2 (1937), 62–4.
89. Vol. 3 (1937), booklets 2 and 4–6 as well as in numerous other articles.
830 endnotes
90. ‘Das Sonntagsma
¨
del. Eine Geschichte zur richtigen Frauenwahl’, SS-Leitheft,
7/4b(1941), 7–9, and also ‘Gegensa
¨
tze ziehen einander an . . . oder: gleich und
gleich gesellt sich gern. Eine Unterhaltung u
¨
ber die rechte Frauenwahl’,
SS-Leitheft, 7/12a(1941), 23–4.
91. SS-Leitheft 6/6b(1940), supplement: Feier und Freizeit, containing ‘Fu
¨
r die
Familie’; ‘Geburt und Namensgebung’, SS-Leitheft, 2/12 (1936), 53–6.
92. ‘Held oder Tor?’, SS-Leitheft, 2/12 (1936), 9–12; ‘Canossa’, SS-Leitheft, 3/4
(1937), 40–6; ‘Heinrich der Lo
¨
we’, SS-Leitheft, 3/6 (1937), 9–19.
93. BAB, NS 2/86,
note by Caesar, reporting to Reichsf
u
¨
hrer-SS, 21 February
1938. On further instructions see also Himmler’s undated training instruction
(cited according to the former Slg. Schumacher/238 I (BAB)).
94. BAB, NS 19/4011, speech to the conference of naval commanders, 16 De-
cember 1943. In it Himmler expressly referred to the Leithefte. Similarly NS
19/4012, speech at the conference of Reich chief propaganda officers, 28
January 1944, and also NS 19/4014, speech to Wehrmacht generals, 21 June
1944.
95. From booklet 4 onwards of volume 3 (1937) the SS-Leithefte each contained
several such stories under the rubric ‘From German History’: in this
booklet, for example, J. v. Leers, ‘Stellinga’, 13–18, and by the same author,
‘Ko
¨
nig Heinrich I’, 26–30; K. Pastenaci, ‘Der Wiking Leif entdeckt Amerika!’,
19–25. Though the format changed, this practice was continued in subsequent
years.
chapter 12
1. For this study all SS-Gruppenfu
¨
hrer (and those holding higher ranks) were
taken into consideration who had acquired their title between the middle of
1937 and 1944 (SS length-of-service lists of 1937, 1943, and 1944 in IfZ).
2. BAB, BDC, SS-O Gille, curriculum vitae and letter from his brother Kurt
Gille to Himmler, 7 May 1934.
3. Ibid. Herbert Gille to Himmler, 6 May 1934; Kurt Gille to Himmler, 7 May
1934 (also on Herbert’s arrest ).
4. Ibid. assessment, 24 May 1934.
5. Ibid. assessment, 1 October 1940.
6. BAB, BDC, SS-O Lo
¨
rner, c.v.
7. BAB, BDC, SS-O Oberg, c.v., 12 March 1933.
8. BAB, BDC, SS-O Pancke, c.v., 19 November 1935.
9. BAB, BDC, SS-O Hofmann, c.v.
10. BAB, BDC, SS-O Ebrecht, c.v., 9 March 1935; Birn, Die Ho
¨
heren SS- und
Polizeifu
¨
hrer, 333.
11. BAB, BDC, SS-O Ebrecht, verdict of 28 November 1938.
endnotes 831
12. Ibid. birth announcement of his daughter Hela, 23 February 1940;on14 July
1941 Ebrecht thanked Hildebrandt for his congratulations on the birth of his
daughter Antje.
13. BAB, BDC, SSO Rauter, c.v., 15 February 1935.
14. See above pp. 134 ff.
15. BAB, BDC, SS-O Behrends, inter alia c.v., 16 February 1932.
16. BAB, BDC, SS-O Ohlendorf; Sowade, ‘Otto Ohlendor f’.
17. BAB, BDC, SS-O Fegelein, c.v.
18. BAB, BDC, SS-O Katzmann, c.v.
19. BAB, BDC, SS-O Ro
¨
sener, c.v., 4 March 1937.
20. BAB, BDC, SS-O Jeckeln, Himmler to Jeckeln, 26 July 1939; Jeckeln’s reply
of 28 July 1939; report of NSKK-Oberscharfu
¨
hrer Heinz W. Hussmann of 26
June 1939.
21. BAB, BDC, SS-O Kaul, Kaul to Schmitt, the head of Personnel, 22 May 1936;
Ungerto the Personnel Office, 22 May 1936. The incident took place on
8 May 1936.
22. Ibid. von dem Bach-Zelewski to Heissmeyer, 12 May 1936; Himmler to von
demBach-Zelewski, 31 May 1936. In the view of von dem Bach-Zeleweski a
duel would have been the appropriate way to resolve the conflict, but Himm-
ler also rejected that.
23. BAB, BDC, SS-O Bu
¨
rger, Bu
¨
rger to Himmler, 16 February 1942, and
Himmler’s reply of 1 Ma
rch 1942.
24.
BAB, NS 19/3939, RFSS instruction, 24 October 1942.
25. BAB, BDC, SS-O Kleinheisterkamp, Himmler’s letter of 9 October 1942.
26. BAB, NS 19/4005, speech of 11 December 1938.
27. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech to the Hitler Youth on 22 May 1936, published in
Himmler, Geheimreden, 89.
28. BAB, BDC, SS-O Gottberg, von Gottberg’s declaration of acceptance, 12
August1936.
29. BAB, BDC, SS-O Rahn, letter of 28 August 1937.
30. BAB, NS 7/245, communication of SS judge on RFSS staff to the Main Office
of the SS Court, 18 August 1942.
31. In the case also of Hara ld Turner, the deputy head of the Race and Settlement
Main Office, Himmler took a relatively gentle line when the former was
involved in an alcohol-related lapse, sending Turner to the front. He empha-
sized that he had decided not to impose the punishment normally laid down,
namely dismissal from the SS (BAB, BDC, SS-O-Turner, Himmler to Herff
and Hildebrandt, 13 January 1945.).
32. BAB, NS 7/245.On22 January 1942 Himmler issued the instruction that in
the case of offences committed by members of the SS and police alcohol abuse
should not be taken as a reason to commute the punishment but rather as ‘one
to make the punishment much more severe’.
832 endnotes
33. Doc. PS-1992 (A), lecture by Himmler on the nature and purpose of the SS as
part of a Wehrmacht course on national politics, 15 to 23 January 1937,
published in IMT,vol.29, pp. 206 ff.
34. BAB, NS 7/245, SS judge on RFSS staff to the Main Office of the SS Court, 21
July 1941, about Himmler’s idea of imposing a ‘reh abilitation stay’ in such
cases. Glu
¨
cks, who was working out the details, suggested KZ Buchenwald in a
letter to the RFSS of 23 July 1942; SS judge to Glu
¨
cks, 18 August 1941, passes
on Himmler’s agreement. A letter of 18 November 1941 from the Main Office
of the SS Court to the Personal Staff reveals that the process of admitting the
first four candidates was already under way.
35. BAB, NS 7/24, SS judge to Glu
¨
cks, 18 August 1942, on Himmler’s ideas and
instructions for the rehabilitation, which the Personal Staff sent to Glu
¨
cks on 24
October 1941. Finally the Main Office of th e SS Cour t made a summary of the
stipulations in a directive about the arrangements for rehabilitation stays of 28
March 1942.
36. BAB, NS 7/245, SS judge to Main Office of the SS Court, 5 January 1942.
37. BAB, NS 2/2, order of RFSS of 25 June 1937.
38. BAB, BDC, SS-O Bach-Zelewski, correspondence from the years 1935 to
1938.
39.
BAB,
BDC, SS-O Moder, 15 October 1937.
40. BAB, BDC, SS-O Hennicke, Ludwig Guldener to RFSS, 9 September 1938.
41. BAB, BDC, SS-O Otto Hofmann, note for the file, head of department III, 28
August1934.
42. BAB, BDC, SS-O Ro
¨
sener, Ro
¨
sener to Schmitt, 14 October 1938; Schmitt’s
reply,12 November 1938.
43. BAB, BDC, SS-O Bu
¨
rger, 16 January 1940;Bu
¨
rger’s reply, 28 February 1940,
in which she basically apologizes for her request.
44. BAB, BDC, SS-O Alvensleben, letter from von Alvensleben of 11 December
1934.
45. Ibid. Himmler’s response, 25 October 1934.
46. Ibid. note in the file about the mee ting dated 26 July 1937.
47. BAB, NS 2/3, RFSS directive of 25 June 1937.
48. BAB, BDC, SS-O Alvensleben, von Alvensleben to managing director Rudolf
Stahl, August 1938, in which he confirms that he will act as the latter’s ‘personal
adviser’ and mention s Himmler’s approval. Draft agreement with Stahl sent to
Wolff, 26 August 1938; Himmler’s approval via a letter from Wolff to von
Alvensleben, 24 Novembe
r 1938.
49.
BAB, NS 2/5, staff order 22/36, 10 December 1936.
50. BAB, BDC, SS-O Backe, Himmler to Herbert Backe, 30 June 1938; also to be
found here are the details of the first loan of 1 million Reich marks.
51. BAB, NS 19/4004, Gruppenfu
¨
hrer meeting in Bad To
¨
lz, 18 February 1937.
52. Himmler explained the procedure to the Gruppenfu
¨
hrer on 18 February 1937
(ibid.). In an order of 3 May 1937 Himmler forbade SS men to take on debt
endnotes 833
obligations: ‘In particular I forbid so-called hire purchase agreements.’ The
order of 30 September 1937 dealt with further details and confirmed that hire
purchase was forbidden on principle (BAB, NS 2/176).
53. BAB, NS 19/4004, speech at the Gruppenfu
¨
hrer meeting in Munich in the
leaders’ quarters of the SS-Standarte Deutschland, 8 November 1937.
54. BAB, NS 19 /2651, Himmler to Werner Lorenz, Behrend’s superior, 16
December 1942, publish ed in Himmler, Reichsfu
¨
hrer!, no. 180.
55. BAB, BDC, SS-O Rudo lf Jung, Himmler to Hans Krebs, 19 January 1943.
56. BAB, NS 19/3221, letter of 24 June 1942.
57. BAB, BDC, SS-O Korsemann, Himmler to Korsemann, 12 March 1943.
58. BAB, NS 19/3901, instruction from Himmler, 19 March 1939.
59. BAB, NS 19/4005, speech at the Gruppenfu
¨
hrer meeting in Munich, 8 No-
vember 1938, published in Himmler, Geheimreden, 25 ff., 44 f.
60. Ibid.
61. BAB, BDC, SS-O Fritz Weitzel, letter fro m Himmler of 24 Januar 1939: ‘Dear
Fr
itz,
I strongly wish and command that first of all in the interests of your
health you and your wife spend your leave in southern Italy and not in
northern Italy (Tyrol), and secondly that this leave should last for three
weeks without interruption. I forbid you to leave for Germany or to have
files sent to you during this time, with the exception of one batch of items for
reading and information only. A holiday has a purpose only if it takes one away
completely from everyday things and other worries and so leads to proper
relaxation and thus recovery. I need precisely the senior leaders for a long time
yet and we cannot afford to wear them out within a few years from overwork.’
See also SS-O Ebrecht, communication of 17 August 1938 concerning a period
of leave imposed by Himmler.
62. Abschrift in BAB, BDC, SS-O Ro
¨
sener, medical report, 28 April 1944.
63. BAB, BDC, SS-O Gutenberger, medical report, 13 March 1944. Also here see
Herff to Gutenberger, 28 February 1944, und Herff to Himmler, 16 and 25
March 1944.
64. BAB, BDC, SS-O Ro
¨
sener, medical report Braitmaier, 29 May 1944.
65. In the same file.
66. BAB, BDC, SS-O Sauberzweig, Prof. Koch, medical report for Gebhardt, 29
November 1944, cites a further report from his colleague Crinis, a neurologist
at the Charite
´
hospital in Berlin; Gebhardt to Herff, 12 March 1945.
67. BAB, BDC, SS-O Schmitt, medical certificate, 9 July 1942.
68. BAB, BDC, SS-O Hildebrandt, medical certificate, 3 February 1942.
69. The strong emphasis that Fahrenkamp placed on psychosomatic factors is
evident in his book Kreislauffu
¨
rsorge und Gesundheitsfu
¨
hrung (Stuttgart, 1941 ).
70. BAB, NS 19/1630, list of members of the Personal Staff as around May 1943;
NS 19/3666, correspondence of the Perso nal Staff with Fahrenkamp. See in
addition NS 3/1136,
construction of the cosmetics factory in Dachau,
es
p. correspondence with medical officer Dr. med. Karl Fahrenkamp (Personal
834 endnotes
Staff Reichsfu
¨
hrer-SS, department F). On Fahrenkamp’s activities at Dachau
see Kaienburg, Wirtschaft, 785, 817, and 830 ff.
71. BAB, NS 19/3666.
72. Dienstkalender, 3 January 1941 und 25 February 1942. Fahrenkamp advised him
on 29 July 1940 to get a carbonic-acid bath as a way of helping his low blood
pressure (OA Moscow, Akte Himmler).
73. BAB, BDC, SS-O Berger, 28 November 1941.On12 November he had had a
meal with Fahrenkamp (Dienstkalender).
74. BAB, BDC, SS-O Fahrenkamp, 1 March 1942.
75. BAB, BDC, SS-O Greifelt, medical report Fahrenkamp, 7 December 1938.
76. BAB, BDC, SS-O Fahrenkamp, 13 May 1944.
77. BAB, BDC, SS-O Jost, 22 November 1943.
78. BAB, BDC, SS-O Rediess, report from Fahrenkamp to Himmler, 2 October
1939.
79. BAB, BDC, SS-O Bach-Zelewski, report of Reich Medical Officer, 9 March
1942.
80. Ibid. 14 June 1933.
81. Ibid. letter to Himmler, 31 March 1942.
82.
Ibid. Himmler to Bach, 6 April 1942.
83.
Ibid. report from Ruppert (specialist), 22 March 1944.
84. Beckenbauer, ‘Landshuter Jugendfreundschaft’, sheds little light on the rela-
tionship between Himmler and Gebhardt.
85. BAB, NS 19/1292, Brandt, date illegible.
86. Ibid. Gebhardt to Himmler, 5 and 11 July 1938.
87. For example, Gebhardt reported a conversation he had had in Brussels with the
Queen of Belgium while visiting a patient there and four weeks later on a
conversation with the Queen Mother (ibid. reports from Gebhardt of 14 June
and 14 July 1939).
88. BAB,BDC, SS-O Darre
´
, report of 22 August 1936.
89. BAB, NS 19/1292, Himmler to Gebhardt, 9 October 1942.
90. BAK, NL 1126/13, Gebhardt to Himmler, 22 September 1936.
91. BAB, NS 19/1292, Himmler to Gebhardt, sent on 14 January 1938, Gebhardt
to Himmler, 23 January 1938.
92. What is meant is a ‘Politruk’, the usual term for a political commissar in the
Soviet army.
93. BAB, NS 2/59, Himmler to Pohl, 12 August 1942; published in Himmler,
Reichsfu
¨
hrer!, no. 136.
94.
BAB,
BDC, SS-O Eicke, 19 January 1943. See also a letter from Himmler to
Eicke of 16 April 1942 that is similar in tone.
95. BAB, BDC, SS-O Alvensleben, 1 November 1943.
96. BAB, BDC, SS-O Ju
¨
ttner, letter of condolence from Himmler, 8 Dezember
1943: ‘I press your hand in sympathy.’ Further examples in Birn, Die Ho
¨
heren
SS- und Polizeifu
¨
hrer, 371.
endnotes 835
97. BAB, BDC, SS-O Kru
¨
ger, 8 August 1941.
98. BAB, BDC, SS-O Eberstein, Himmler to Eberstein, 7 October 1942.
99. BAB, NS 19/382, 30 December 1944.
100. BAB, NS 19/3904, Himmler to Mo
¨
ller, 24 August 1942.
101. BAB, BDC, SS-O Kro eger, 12 April 1943.
102. BAB, BDC, SS-O Ho
¨
fle.
103. BAB, BDC, SS-O Hofmann.
104. Ibid. memorandum on the meeting with Hofmann, 13 March 1943. Himmler
also passed on to Hildebrandt his personal esteem for the latter’s predecessor,
Hofmann: ‘Hofmann’s departure is not in the slightest dishonourable’ (SS-O
Hildebrandt, letter of 15 May 1943).
105. BAB, BDC, SS-O Hofmann, 29 September 1943.
106. Ibid. 2 October 1943. Nine years previously Hofmann had tried using a very
similar formula to avoid a punishment imposed on him. ‘I am determined that
my work will be guided only by National Socialist ideology. Because I believe
that this way of thinking is so firmly rooted in me that I never consciously do
anything wrong, and because I cannot reproach myself with having done
anything wrong unconsciously, I would ask you, Reichsfu
¨
hrer, to exempt me
from this punishment’ (ibid. [1934], cited in Birn, Die Ho
¨
heren SS- und
Polizeifu
¨
hrer, 373).
107. BAB, BDC, SS-O Hofmann, 29 November 1944.
108. BAB, BDC, SS-O Korsemann, Himmler to the head of the Personnel Main
Office, 5 July 19
43.
109.
Ibid. Himmler to commander of the SS Panzer division ‘Leibstandarte’,
January 1944 (no day given).
110. BAB, BDC, SS-O Eicke, 28 November 1942.
111. BAB, BDC, SS-O Dietri ch, 23 July 1938.
112. Ibid. 30 August 1943.
113. BAB, NS 19/1667, 15 July 1943. Berger reported on 28 July 1943: ‘Steiner’s
loyalty to the Reichsfu
¨
hrer-SS is strong and inviolable.’ Steiner’s ‘informal
manner’ accounted for muc h.
114. BAB, BDC, SS-O Steiner, 12 August 1943.
115. Ibid. Himmler to Steiner, 25 August 1943.
116. BAB, BDC, SS-O Hausser, letter of March 1943.
117. BAB, BDC, SS-O Kru
¨
ger, RFSS to HSSPF East, Kru
¨
ger, 25 April 1942. The
ban was aimed at the director of the Land Office in the Warthegau, Standar-
tenfu
¨
hrer Hammer.
118. For an example of a smoking ban imposed on the grounds of protecting
health see Himmler to SS-Sturmbannfu
¨
hrer Adalbert Graf Kottulinsky, 16
September 1938, published in Himmler, Reichsfu
¨
hrer!, no. 40.
119. BAB, NS 19/2601, Himmler to Phleps, 10 May 1944.
120.
S
peech of 8 November 1938, published in Himmler, Geheimreden, 25 ff., here 46.
836 endnotes
121. SS-Leitheft, 7/10a(1941–2), 19. The ruling was occasioned by a case that the
head of Office I of the RSHA, Streckenbach, described in a circular (BAB,
R 58/261, 28 February 1942). According to this, Himmler had ‘become aware
that two older, married members of the uniformed police are living in th e
same building as enemies for trivial reasons, completely disregarding the
obligation to be comradely. On one occasion a conflict concerning the keeping
of hens resulted in their trading serious insults and blows. The Reichsfu
¨
hrer-SS
and Chief of the German Police placed a room at the disposal of these two
policemen for six weeks to function as a communal living-room, thus giving
them the opportunity to discuss their differences at length and to ponder
together the concept of comradeship and the duties of Germans in wartime.’
122.BAB,NS2/275, 5 October 1942.
123.BAB,NS19/1415, note dated 22 July 1944. See also note by Brandt, 2 June
1944 (ibid.), that the Ho
¨
henvilla in Karlsbad should be the model: ‘Guests to
be thrown out in the morning at a fixed time on the grounds that all the
rooms are being thoroughly cleaned. They are then too uncomfortable for
anyone to stay in and so everyone disappears of his own accord.’
124. Disziplinar- und Beschwerdeordnung (Munich, 1933); Vieregge, Gerichtsbarkeit, 10 ff.
125. Vieregge, Gerichtsbarkeit, 13 f.
126. See below pp. 485 ff.
127. According to Knut Stang, ‘Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger—Protagonist der Ter-
rorkriegfu
¨
hrung’, in Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Gerhard Paul (eds), Kar-
rieren der Gewalt. Nationalsozialistische Ta
¨
terbiographien (Darmstadt, 2004),
66–75, quotation 67, on the basis of a characterization in a post-war testimo-
ny. Essential information on his career can be drawn in particular from the
ass
essment
by the SD-Oberabschnitt South-West of 14 May 1938 and
also from the letter from the Chancellery of the Fu
¨
hrer of the NSDAP to
RFSS of 17 May 1940. Details of the indecent behaviour are contained in the
judgement of the district court of Wu
¨
rttemberg of 26 February 1936 (all in
BAB, BDC, SS-O Dirlewanger).
128. Ibid. Dirlewanger to RFSS, 4 July 1939.
129. Ibid. reply from the Personal Staff, 16 August 1939.
130. The acquittal emerges from a report by the Stuttgart NS- Kurier of 25 May
1940. Berger had supported his admission to the SS (BAB, BDC, SS-O
Dirlewanger, letter to Himmler of 4 June 1940); Berger had then also secured
Dirlewanger’s release from custody (ibid. Dirlewanger to RFSS, 4 July 1939).
131. It was SSPF Globocnik, of all people, who in a letter to Himmler of 5 August
1941 gave Dir lewanger an excellent testimonial for this period: ‘During
deployment on the construction of the forward trenches at Belcez and
when in charge of the Jewish camp of Dzikow Dirlewanger was an excellent
leader’ (BAB, BDC, SS-O Dirlewanger). On Sonderkommando Dirlewan-
ger see French L. MacLean, The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonder-Kommado Dirlewan-
ger, Hitler’s Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Unit (Atglen, 1998); Hellmuth
endnotes 837
Auerbach, ‘Die Einheit Dirlewanger’, Vierteljahrshefte fu
¨
r Zeitgeschichte, 10
(1962), 250–63; Hans-Peter Klausch, Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform. Schicksal
und Widerstand der deutschen politischen KZ-Ha
¨
ftlinge, Zuchthaus- und Wehr-
machtstrafgefangenen in der SS-Sonderformation Dirlewanger (Bremen, 1993).
132.BAB,NS19/3978, Himmler to RuSHA re petition from Emil K., 5.September
1944. Himmler here draws attention to the fact that K. does not need permission
to marry as, like most other members of the unit, he was not an SS man.
133. On him see Peter Klein, ‘Curt von Gottberg—Siedlungsfunktiona
¨
r und
Massenmo
¨
rder’, in Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Gerhard Paul (eds), Karrie-
ren der Gewalt. Nationalsozialistische Ta
¨
terbiographien (Darmstadt, 2004),
95–103; Kaienburg, Wirtschaft, 259 ff.; BAB, BDC, SS-O Gottberg.
134. Ibid.
135. This was Darre
´
’s evaluation in a letter to Himmler, 18 August 1939 (ibid.).
136. Ibid. Gottberg’s report on the accident, which had taken place on 5 January
1936, to Gruppenfu
¨
hrer Schmitt.
137. Ibid.
138. Ibid. Jeckeln to SS Main Office, 19 August 1936, on the declaration made by
Gottberg on 12 August.
139. Ibid. note on the file by Pancke, 13 November 1939.
140. On von Gottberg’s activities and demotion see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 133 ff.,
Kaienburg, Wirtschaft, 313 ff.
See also below pp. 414 ff.
141.
BAB, BDC, SS-O Gottberg, Wolff to Pancke, 11 January 1940.
142. Ibid. Himmler to von Gottberg, 30 May 1940.
143. Ibid. RFSS to Pancke, no date, and Himmler to Gottberg, 6 April 1942.
144. BAB, NS 19/1140 , letter from Michner of 8 November 1939; statement
from Rainer, 24 November 1939.
145. BAB, BDC, SS-O Globocnik, Schwarz to Globocnik, 18 March 1941; ahead
of this there had been an extensive correspondence in this matter: Schwarz to
Himmler, 10 January 1941; Himmler to Schwarz, 20 February 1941; Glo-
bocnik to Schwarz, 3 March 1941, and also to Wolff, 4 March 1941 (all ibid.).
146. Ibid. Himmler to Schwarz, 20 February 1941.
147. Siegfried J. Pucher, ‘ . . . in der Bewegung fu
¨
hrend ta
¨
tig.’ Odilo Globocnik—
Ka
¨
mpfer fu
¨
r den ‘Anschluß’,Vollstrecker des Holocaust (Klagenfurt, 1997 ), 70 ff.
148. Christian Jansen und Arno Weckbecker, Der ‘Volksdeutsche Selbstschutz’ in
Polen 1939/40 (Munich, 1992 ), 77 f. The Selbstschutz was perforce dissolved
in the summer of 1940;
Globo
cnik, however, created a successor organization
in the shape of the ‘Sonderdienst’ (ibid. 194 f.).
149. BAB, BDC, SS-O Globo cnik, correspondence, 5 and 14 July 1941.
150. Ibid. Personal Staff to G lobocnik, 16 July 1941, and letter of thanks to
Himmler, 28 August 1941.
151. Pucher, ‘Bewegung’, 77 ff.; Bogdan Musial, Deutsche Zivilverwaltung und Ju-
denverfolgung im Generalgouvernement. Eine Fallstudie zum Di strikt Lublin
1939–1944 (Wiesbaden, 1999), 110 ff.
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152. See below pp. 572 and 528.
153. BAB, BDC, SS-O Globocnik, letter of 30 August 1942 and Himmler’s reply
of 11 September 1942. In April 1942 a letter was already in Himmler’s hands
in which an SS Sturmbannfu
¨
hrer complained that in Zakopane Globocnik’s
fiance
´
e had flirted extravagantly and without embarrassment in front of
everyone in a public house, annoying and repelling in the process all the
other people there, whose attention she had meanwhile attracted, by her
appearance and carry-on’ (ibid. letter of 10 April 1942).
154. Ibid. assessment on the occasion of SS-Gruppenfu
¨
hrer Herff’s official tour of
the General Government.
155. Ibid. Himmler to Kru
¨
ger, 5 July 1943. At first Himmler planned to make
Globocnik deputy HSSPF Russia-Centre. Shortly after, however, the District
Governor Wendler asked Himmler to see to Globocnik’s transfer ‘as soon as
possible’ as it was impossible to work with him (letter to Himmler, 27 July
1943; Himmler’s reply, 4 August 1943).
156. Ibid. letter of 1 August 1944; Himmler’s reply, 6 August 1944; letter from the
Personal Staff (Brandt) to Globocnik, 18 September 1944; Brandt to Rainer,
28 September 1944. On Globocnik’s engagement in 1942 and marriage in
1944 see Pucher, ‘Bewegung’, 145 f.
chapter 13
1. BAB, NS 19/4004, speech to the Gruppenfu
¨
hrer meeting in Munich in the
officers’ quarters of the SS-Standarte Deutschland, 8 November 1937. On the
SS as a clan community see in particular Schwarz, Frau, 17 ff.
2. IfZ, PS-2204, Himmler’s note in the file concerning his discussion with Hitler
on 1 November 1935.
3. BAB, NS 19/4002, speech at the leaders’ conference of the SS-Oberabschnitt
South-East in Breslau, 19 Janu ary 1935.
4. BAB, NS 19/4011, 16 December 1943.
5. ‘Im Dienst des Fu
¨
hrers . . . Vom Kampf der SS. Ein geschichtlicher Ru
¨
ck-
blick’, SS –Leitheft, 7/1b(1941), 10–14, here 13: ‘Thus although it can be still
be said that the SS is a National Socialist order of men, it can never be said that
it is meant to be an order for men alone.’
6. Schwarz, Frau, 64.
7. BAB, NS 2/166, leaflet on the submission of documents supporting petitions
to get engaged or married, 27 April 1937. On the procedure for approving
marriages see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 50 ff., also Schwarz, Frau, 24 ff. The most
important
orders
from Himmler on procedures for the approval of marriages
are in NS 2/232 (4 June 1934), 2/280 (20 April 1935 and 19 March 1936), and
also 2/53 (11 March 1936).
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