German WWII Preliminary Record for POW Report for Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk- von Krosigk was a German senior government official who served as the minister of Finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto chancellor of Germany during May 1945. Besides Adolf Hitler himself, von Krosigk was one of the few members of the Third Reich's cabinet to serve continuously from Hitler's appointment as Chancellor until his death. By accepting the Golden Party Badge personally by Adolf Hitler, he automatically became a member of the Nazi Party. At the 1949 Ministries Trial, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 10 years for the laundering of property stolen from Nazi victims and financing the concentration camps. His sentence was reviewed by the "Peck Panel" and he was released during an amnesty in 1951.He later worked as an author and publicist. He died on 4 March 1977 at age 89.
Note: These are original vintage reprints of Prisoner of War Preliminary reports These are guaranteed as described. This paperwork would have been a prisoner “intake form”, with all of the individual’s personal details including the prisoner's name, fingerprints, place of birth, next of kin, date of capture, date of arrival, date of transfer, physical description, distinguishing marks, etc.
Copies of these would have been supplied to the different departments that needed access to this information. This is one of the vintage reprints that survived from the infamous Allied prisoner-of-war camp in the Palace Hotel of Mondorf-les-Bains, in Luxembourg, code named "Camp Ashcan". Each card is annotated "CCPWE #32", an abbreviation for the Central Continental Prisoner of War Enclosure #32. Operating from May to August 1945, it served as a processing station and interrogation center for the 86 most prominent surviving Nazi leaders prior to their trial in Nuremberg, including Hermann Göring and Karl Dönitz.