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Report on the duty of obedience of SS leaders


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 650

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Report on the duty of obedience of SS leaders

Date(s): 1960

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1960

Name of creator(s): Seraphim | Hans-Günther | fl 1960 | lecturer of Göttingen University

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The provenance of the document is unknown. Whilst the document states that it was produced for the Landgericht, Münster, 1960, the case to which it pertains is not known.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of an expert report on the duty of obedience of SS leaders particularly with regard to orders to murder, by Dr Hans-Günther Seraphim, lecturer of Göttingen University, 1960. The report deals with the implications of refusal by SS officers to comply with orders to execute those regarded as enemies of the state. Produced for the Landgericht, Münster.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

N/A

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War crimes | Humanitarian law

Personal names

Corporate names
SS x Schutzstaffel

Places