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The SS und Polizeiführer of Lublin
SS-Gruppenführer Globocnik
Shortly after the beginning of the Russian campaign, a concentration camp was established in
Lublin on orders of the RFSS. The Inspector of Concentration Camps, Glücks, took
over the appointed land from Globocnik, together with the beginnings of a camp, and made
Koch – until then commandant of Buchenwald – commandant of the camp. On that
occasion Globocnik promised Glücks enormous quantities of blankets, underwear
and footwear, kitchenware, and medical instruments and medicine for use in the concentration
camps. After that Glücks came to Auschwitz and ordered me to pick out all the
promised supplies for Auschwitz. I went to Globocnik at once with my Verwaltungsführer
(administrative officer), at that time Wagner. After a lot of being sent here and there, we managed
to get something usable for Auschwitz. Today I cannot recall the quantity or the kind of material,
but amongst it there was some medical equipment and instruments and medicine. At any rate
the spoils were miserably small compared with the amount that Globocnik had promised. These
were articles which had been requisitioned ...
RFSS = Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler)