Punishment for Mistreating SS Camp Prisoners
In this June 4, 1937, internal circular notice, Theodor Eicke, SS General and “Inspector of the Concentration Camps,” announces that the SS does not tolerate mistreatment of concentration camp inmates. In a section headed “Mistreatment of Prisoners,” Eicke announces that an SS Sergeant named Zeidler was being punished because, “in a sadistic mood,” he had…