The SS Main Economic and Administrative Office was a Nazi organization responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects of the Allgemeine-SS. It also ran the concentration c
Heinrich Himmler at an SS construction site, 1940.
US troops, while liberating Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, found thousands of wedding rings that had been stolen from victims of The Holocaust.
Structure of the WVHA, according to an exhibit presented at the WVHA trial
Oswald Pohl, former Chief of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Dept, standing, is indicted on war crimes charges in connection with the operation of concentration camps at the Nuremberg Trials in 1947. After making numerous appeals, he was executed in Landsberg Prison on June 7, 1951.
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The United States of America vs. Oswald Pohl, et al., commonly known as the Pohl trial, was the fourth of the twelve "subsequent Nuremberg trials" for war crimes and crimes against humanity after the
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…and murder of prisoners of war." To that end, the SS and its subordinated entities were officially recognized as a criminal organization in 1946. Pohl trial August Frank memorandum…
SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl receives his sentence of death by hanging