georg konrad morgen (8 june 1909 â 4 february 1982) was an ss judge and lawyer who investigated crimes committed in nazi concentration camps. he rose to the rank of ss-sturmbannfÃ¼hrer (major). after the war, morgen continued his legal career and died on 4 february 1982. ==life== born to a railwayman in frankfurt, morgen graduated from the university of frankfurt and the hague academy of international law, before becoming a judge in stettin. considered a pacifist by many, morgen published the book war propaganda and the prevention of war in 1936, a year after first meeting adolf hitler, arguing against the militarization of germany. it was published by the reich. as a ss-sturmbannfÃ¼hrer (major), he was ordered to serve in the wiking division on the eastern front as punishment for insubordination. in 1943, now a judge-advocate in the hauptamt ss-gericht while retaining his military rank, morgen was sent to investigate other ss members on charges of corruption. he had no difficulty gaining access to the concentration camps in eastern germany, which held primarily anti-nazi germans and other political prisoners, but during a mid-1943 attempt to enter the jewish extermination camp at treblinka in central poland, he and his associates were thrown out. during octoberânovember 1943, morgen looked into rumors that ss-general odilo globocnik, former commandant of jewish labor camps in the lublin district of eastern poland, had assembled an enormous personal trove of valuables confiscated from the inmates.joseph poprzeczny (2004). hitler's man in the east - odilo globocnik, pp. 263-273 though unable to bring charges, he became in the course of this investigation an accidental eyewitness to part of operation harvest festival: the liquidation of three large (majdanek, poniatowa, and trawniki) and several smaller jewish labor camps in the lublin area. the operation, a pre-emptive security measure, was ordered by reichsfÃ¼hrer-ss heinrich himmler after learning that the inmates had obtained weapons and made contact with communist partisans active in the surrounding forests.samuel hoffenberg (1988).le camp de poniatowa - la liquidation des derniers juifs de varsovie, p. 117-18 in fact the jews in each camp were disarmed with negligible resistance and no casualties; and during the mass executions which followed, carried out on the spot over a two-day span, some 43,000 male and female prisoners were shot. at poniatowa on 4 november, morgen witnessed the entire drama, as the camp inmates - "6,000 jews and 9,500 jewesses" - reported to the execution site, surrendered their personal effects and clothing, then went naked to self-
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