Organization Schmelt

[Stubble]

Fellow forum members,

I'm looking for information about Organization Schmelt. Specifically any collated collections of period documents that may be extant in the various archives.

I'd like to see memoranda to either Heinrich Lindner and or Moshe Merin. Other persons who's communications are of interest are Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser and Friedrich Jeckeln.

These communications would fit with my research target and if you know where I can find extant records I would be in your debt. I will continue to look in the 't' series documents and will be adding these names to my searches.

One of my hopes in this endeavor is to cross reference the labor deployments with the refugee files and see if I can do any 'fingerprinting' of cohorts. I'd also like to get a granular view of the labor pool and its utilization and deployment.

[Hektor]

I presume Albrecht Schmelt would be a person of interest as well. I found some info on him. But it's often the usual presumptious nagging about 'responsibility for extermination'... Typical innuendo that deportation meant 'extermination', but I guess most of us are familiar with this trick now.

[Stubble]

I was actually assuming that if we were to check his files and memos it would be less granular and more 30,000 foot stuff. If you've got them though, I'd sure love to see them.

Im digging. Will report back here with links to things I turned up that may be of interest and less well known.

[Hektor]

I noticed pointing to documents. If and what is accessible I still have to see. There was some pointing to Arolsen and I recall they had a semi-accessible archive. So I'd start there. And low and behold:
https://collections.arolsen-archives.or ... ?s=Schmelt

yields at least some result that still need to be investigated.

[Stubble]

Thanks Herr Hektor, much obliged.

Going through it is interrogation protocols and testimony.

Currently I am personally more interested in interoffice and intraoffice communications regarding labor deployments from 1940-1944 in the RKO and the GG specifically. I'm targeting memos that hit the desk of Heinrich Lindner.

On the jewish side of things I'd like to see what hit the desk of Moshe Merin.

From there I am sure this will branch out.

At some point I will go through the interrogation protocols and witness testimony. My main concern is trying to build a head count and timetable as well as to get an idea of labor strength and deployments.

[Hektor]

If one got names, one can use it to search the archive there. One can try various KI as well. Although Grok it seems has been pushed to reflect exterminationist views. E.g. when a document says Jews were deported from X to Y, commonly it will be insinuated that this is proof of extermination, even if the document doesn't warrant that at all.

[Stubble]

That is where this is headed Sir. 'Fingerprinting' and 'tracing' cohorts to the highest degree possible.