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        <titleproper>Sievers, Wolfram (1905-1948): SS Dossier (microfilm)</titleproper>
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        <publisher>The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust &amp; Genocide</publisher>
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      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Sievers, Wolfram (1905-1948): SS Dossier (microfilm)</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">55 frames</physdesc>
      <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">1937-1944</unitdate>
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      <p><![CDATA[Microfilm file of documents on Wolfram Sievers concerning his SS membership, including Lebenslauf, SS muster roll extract; personnel questionnaire; service career; examination certificates, 1937-1944.]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[The SS (Schutzstaffel) was founded in 1925 with the object of protecting the Nazi Perty leader, Adolf Hitler. By 1936, under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, the SS had assumed responsiblity for all police and security matters throughout the Third Reich.

Wolfram Sievers, who became the Reichsgesch?ftsf?hrer der Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutschen Ahnenerbe (the Director of the Society for Research into the Spiritual Roots of Germany's Ancestral Heritage), was born in 1905 the son of an evangelical church musician in Hildesheim. His Gymnasium schooling was aborted not, as he claimed on the witness stand at the Nuremberg Trials, because he had to find a practical occupation on account of the difficulties caused by the separation of his parents, but, as he states in his SS- Personalfragebogen, because of his desire to be more actively involved in the 'deutsch-v?lkisch' Schutz und Trutzbund. Thus demonstrating from early on his fascination for German ethnicity and pre-Christian culture.

Sievers was a witness at the first Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and was himself convicted of being a war criminal on account of his involvement in experimentation on concentration camp prisoners. He was executed on 2 June 1948.]]></p>
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      <subject>World wars (events)</subject>
      <subject>War crimes</subject>
      <subject>World War Two (1939-1945)</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1159">Third Reich</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1008">Political doctrines</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1080">War</subject>
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      <subject>International conflicts</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="381">Nazism</subject>
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      <persname>Sievers, Wolfram, 1905, Director of the Society for Research into the Spiritual Roots of Germany's Ancestral Heritage,</persname>
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