Hitler's Black Book - information for Bernhard Menne
Title
First Name(s)
Bernhard
Surname
Menne
Original List ID
M113
Date of Birth / Age
Home Town
Last Seen
Believed Location
67 Warrington Crescent, London W.9.
Occupation
Writer, Emigree
Investigating Office
Involved In
Alias
Editorial Notes
RSHA DEPARTMENT unknown in 1940/1suggest IIIA ,UNKNOWN RSHA DEPARTMENT suggest IIB
Source of Editorial Notes
Wanted by Departments
Amtsgruppe IIIA5 - German Internal Domestic / General Questions of Police Law
Name (Before 1941)
German Internal Domestic
Name (After 1941)
General Questions of Police Law
Address
Wilhelmstrasse 106, Berlin
History
The RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) came into existence on 27/9/39 after being separate offices of the SD (security service) and SS (nazi paramilitaries) since the mid 1930's. AMT I & AMT II were formed officially on 1/10/39 but reorganised completely after March 1941, heads of department were regularly transferred to different departments and the Einsatz Squads of paramilitary murderers when new countries were invaded as all had perceived 'undesirables' to be eliminated.
Head Officers
SS Major & Administrative Councillor Neifeind
Notes
Kurt Neifeind Born 29 September 1908 in Velbert ,Died 15 December 1944 in Nagysurány NSDAP membership number 3385047 and SS membership number 290038, he joined AMT II in 1941 and was later promoted and transferred to AMT III (he is listed in OSS documentation from 1/10/43), later in May 1944 after a transfer to Paris, he fell from grace quite severely (reports simply state 'failure') and was initially sentenced to death but later reduced in the ranks and sent to a penal battalion (effectively a death sentence in any case) on the eastern front under the notoriously brutal chief Dirlewanger and died in battle.
Sources
oss 1 oct 1943
Amtsgruppe II B5 - Liberals / N/A
Name (Before 1941)
Liberals
Name (After 1941)
N/A
Address
History
The RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) came into existence on 27/9/39 after being separate offices of the SD (security service) and SS (nazi paramilitaries) since the mid 1930's. AMT I & AMT II were formed officially on 1/10/39 but reorganised completely after March 1941, heads of department were regularly transferred to different departments and the Einsatz Squads of paramilitary murderers when new countries were invaded as all had perceived 'undesirables' to be eliminated.
Head Officers
Rolf Muhler
Notes
SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Rolf Werner Muhler, Born in Limbach 14/2/1910. SS number 272255, NSDAP number 4583198, he became head of the SD in Marseille, investogated for war crimes in France after 1945 he was sentenced to 20 years hard labour, although released in 1956 and returned to West Germany. Died in 1967.
Sources
CIA war criminal investigation files 1945 (www.foia.cia.gov) & wiki.de