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"Aside from the t? sk of educating the armed political soldiers,
it is their duty to guard the eaemies of the State interned in
the concentration camps."
In addition, TV units were assi-~red the function of searcliing for es­
caped prisoners, training and commanding detachments of the Hitler-Jut^nd
gtr-tifendienst (Hitler Youth Patrol Service), and furnishing execution squads.
Details of mathods applied by-the TV in the performance of their
dut.es can best be iscertained froi the multitude of reports by concentra­
tion camp inmates. All of then agr>se that the guard duty of the TV man In­
cluded the ruthless exploitation of prison labor, the willful and often pur­
poseless torture of prisoners, and the extermination of prisoners unfit for
heavy work.-*-
iv. Organization. Functionally, the SS-Totenkopfverbgr.de mist be
]>reFijmed to have beon under the jurisdicoicn of the Antsgruppe D. Führung una,
Verwaltung der Konzi tntrat ions lager (Division D, Comnu^nd and Administration of
Concent: ction Canpc) ;*thln the :7irtscha?tr- und Verwaltungghauttaia^, (ftVHA -
Bsonoaic and Administrative -lain Office*) of the F.eichsftihrung-SS (SJ Supreme
1» See reprrt on B-'.chcnwr.ld, or -ed on the core leto rrc« r r of the co:?> etent
service units, on file with 0S3 (SI) F.epcrt B-2833; report on Buchenwald
and Lublin by ?V; i.'.einke, OSS document CID 127249j report on Lounenburg
by US Br hassy in Berlin, on file with Stat« Department. irGEC 362.00/3173;
report on Auschv/ita-Birkenau, by two escapees, 3SÜ Field 'emo 257 (FR-425$;
report.OB Dachau by Vaclav Krejci, OSS document XL 11779; report on Lublin
by ifl Willi Kempf, HIS document C171997, OSS document CID 1355 c .5j report
on Oberrsden by German PW, OSS document CID 135595? report on Kraftfahr-
Iraatzteillager 601 by German PW, CSS document CID 135595; report on Dachau
by German PW, OSS document XL 11931; report on Sachs entlausen oy German PW,
OBS document XL 11969; rerort on Mauthausen by 2 U.S. Army physicians, LM-11;
report on Aussei Lager Gross Earning, on file nit;h OSS (SI); report on Auschwitz
?y a Gorman PW, OB,' iocumont XL 9716; report on Bolzano, on file with OSS;
report oa concerts ati-:n carvx- yaraomel in Estonia, Poland (Lublin), Bohemia-
-V.or;..via; io'danek, There siemtudt', or. file .rich OSS (SI).
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