A Secret Instruction that was Ordered to be Destroyed Sent in 1941
Issued by SS Gruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich (Item CAMPS 2-1)

DESCRIPTION: This document is the absolutely rarest one we have ever had. The fact that it survived is absolutely astounding! The heading is from the Chief of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD who, of course, was Reinhard Tristan Heydrich whose office is shown to be Berlin SW11. The letter is dated 5/4/41 and comes from Heydrich's office at #8 Prinz Albrecht Strasse telephone 12-00-40. The letter's main import is that it is a Geheime Reichsachel (secret communication) to the adjutant of the concentration camp Dachau who was SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Zeiter. The letter is marked persolnich (personal) and it goes on to say “I remind you in any case that the prisoner Otto Drossert born May 22nd 1903 in Bamburg shall not come in contact with the other prisoner August Kopinski Born July 3rd in Danzig, Drossert is designated as a “special prisoner”.  The following report will document that this prisoner tried to escape from the work camp and was shot and killed by an SS guard. Your report must be as follows: “The prisoner Otto Drossert was shot and killed on April 12th 1941 at 11 am while trying to escape. After acknowledgment please destroy this order!"

Dachau was a work camp but it also was a re-educaton camp. Thousands of (Red Front) Communists and Sparticists were sent there and after much indoctrination into the history and agenda of the NSDAP many of them when released were recruited and willingly joined such NS organizations as the SA and other Party formations. However, certain Reds were also sent there, who after intense Gestapo investigation, were found to be outright murderers who were responsible for bloody massacres of SA men and Hitler Youth members during the “Kampfzeit” or ’struggle for power’. I would venture to say that this letter and the suggestion put forward to the K.L. official would have been an expedient solution to such a case. This Otto Drussert must have been a ‘special prisoner’ no doubt. I personally believe that since he was put into the ‘Aktion kugel’ (bullet decree) by order direct from SS Gruppenfuhrer Heydrich personally that Dorssert was a properly deserving candidate. How August Kopinsky fits in is a mystery that may never be solved. Interesting enough is the fact that the chief Communist boss, Ernst Thalmann, who undoubtedly was ultimately responsible for many deaths of N.S. members and SA men was not executed during his incarceration from 1933 to 1945, that he got his in an allied air raid when Buchenwald KZ was bombed.  

The letter is in fairly good condition with some gouges along the left edge where it was punched for file storage and there is a hunk of paper missing here and there along the edges. There is a stamp in the right top quarter that is from the Sicherheitdienst Command.  Reinhard Heydrich signs his name across the center of this stamp and in the bottom quarter there is another such stamp with a typed name Muller SS-SD -- could this be Heinrich Muller Chief of the Gestapo? We just don’t know for sure. The document measures 8" x 12" and it should be framed carefully with museum care. Why Zeiter the SS Obersturmbannfuhrer did not destroy this communiqué we may never know but here it is and extremely important and rare. They missed this one at the Nuremberg “star chamber proceedings. Think for a moment to reflect how incredibly rare and important this communiqué truly is.

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