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CANADIAN “ENEMY JEW” ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED
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A NAZI POLICE DOSSIER ON THE DISPOSITION OF
A “CANADIAN ENEMY JEW” IMPRISONED IN 1940 AT
NÜRNBERG-LANGWASSER ON HIMMLER’S ORDER
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This is an extremely rare and interesting Nazi police dossier consisting of five different pieces of police correspondence related to the case of one Samuel Seliger, a Jew, an “Enemy Foreigner” and “Citizen of the British Dominion of Canada” who was ordered arrested by Heinrich Himmler himself. |
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| This dossier was consolidated in the files of the Nazi police of Wien (Vienna) as a result of the top sheet. The top sheet of the dossier is a letter from the office of the Reichsführer-SS at Prinz Albrecht Straße 8 in Berlin and dated 25 September 1940 to the Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Wien. The Reichsführer-SS demanded to know why the “enemy foreigner Jew” Seliger had not been arrested as ordered. The arrival of this letter on 28 September 1940 set in motion an investigation within the Gestapo in Wien that resulted in this dossier being completed. |
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It probably did not happen often, but in this specific case, the Reichsführer-SS was misinformed and Gestapo record keeping proved decisive! The Nazi Police in Wien under Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach found letter copies proving not only that Seliger had been arrested on Himmler’s order on 17 October 1939, but that he had been transported to Stammlager XIII at Nürnberg-Langwasser on 21 December 1939. |
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| Copies of the correspondence were sent to Himmler by Reichsleiter von Schirach to show that the ever vigilant Wien Gestapo was doing its job!
Very rare, complete police file in very good condition.
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