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NAZI PRISONER TRANSPORTATION PAPERWORK 1940
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NAZI POLICE PAPERWORK FOR THE TRANSPORTATION
OF FIVE PRISONERS FROM WIEN TO BERLIN
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The 36 page Nazi police dossier offered here is the complete police file regarding the transportation of five prisoners from Wien (Vienna - the second largest city in Großdeutschland) to Berlin, Germany in October 1940. The five, all in their early twenties, were Leopold Kuhn, Siegfried Köhl, Regina Köstenbauer, Josef Csarmann and Friederike Christoph who were found guilty by the Hitler government with “preparation for treason”. |
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While the dossier does not cover the specific arrest of each of the prisoners, they were probably arrested by the Gestapo as a part of a single conspiracy earlier in 1940. They were tried and convicted in Wien in September 1940 and sentenced to the hellhole prison, Berlin Alt-Moabit. |
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| The paperwork in this dossier consists of similar sets of pages for each of the prisoners. The principal page is a Transportzettel für die Gefangenen-Beförderung or “Transportation Papers for Prisoners” which details all pertinent data about the prisoner such as name, occupation, birth date, place of birth, height, weight, description, clothing in which he or she was dressed, identity documents, etc.
The Transportzettel is filled in for each segment of the prisoner's journey by train from Wien to Mährische Schönberg, Breslau, Görlitz and finally Berlin.
Attached to each Transportzettel für die Gefangenen-Beförderung is a Kostennachweis or “Expense Account for Transportation”.
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The distance from Vienna to Berlin by rail was 689 kilometers and the cost per kilometer was assessed at 10 Reichspfennigs for a total of RM68.90 or about $28.00 per prisoner. Attached to the Kostennachweis is a Bescheinigung über die Übernahme des Gefangenen or “Recap of the Prisoner’s Journey and Handing Over” in Berlin on 4 October 1940. This Bescheinigung is filled out down to the minute for each prisoner, for each segment of the journey, and signed for by the receiving guard in Berlin. |
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| Each of the Transportzettel and its accompanying paperwork were combined in this stapled dossier in the office of the Reichsstatthalter (Baldur von Schirach) in Wien, the highest civil authority in the area. The third and fourth pages of this dossier are a letter on the stationary of the Reichsstatthalter bearing an embossed Nazi eagle and swastika and the handwritten initials BVS written in green pencil to show that Von Schirach had read it and approved it. Persons and businesses along the route taken by the prisoners were reimbursed by the Reichsstatthalter for expenses incurred for things such as meals. |
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We know of no other complete Nazi Police Transportzettel dossier of this type in existence. It is Third Reich police material of an extremely rare and interesting detailed sort, complete and bearing the hand signed initials of Baldur von Schirach, Head of the Hitler Youth, Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsstatthalter.
This Nazi police dossier is from the collection of authors Ray & Josephine Cowdery and comes with a signed and dated Certificate of Authenticity. |
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