Título: Richard Glücks
Seção: Wannsee conference
Background: Glucks was born 1889 in Odenkirchen (now part of Monchengladbach) in the Rhineland. Having completed gymnasium in Dusseldorf, he worked in his father's business, a fire insurance agency. In 1909, Glucks joined the army for one year as a volunteer, serving in the artillery. In 1913, he was in England, and later moved to Argentina as a trader.

Conteúdo: Just a few days after the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, Himmler ordered Glucks to prepare the camps for the immediate arrival of 100,000 Jewish men and 50,000 women being evacuated from the Reich as labourers in lieu of the diminishing availability of Russian prisoners. In July 1942, he participated in a planning meeting with Himmler on the topic of medical experiments on camp inmates. From several visits to the Auschwitz concentration camps, Glucks was well aware of the mass murders and other atrocities committed there. Correspondingly, Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Hoss routinely informed Glucks on the status of the extermination activities. During one of his inspection-tour visits to Auschwitz in 1943, Glucks complained about the unfavorable location of the crematoria since all types of people would be able to "gaze" at the structures. Responding to this observation, Hoss ordered a row of trees planted between Crematorias I and II. When visits from high officials from the Reich or the Nazi Party took place, the administration was instructed by Glucks to avoid showing the crematorias to them; if questions arose about smoke coming from the chimneys, the installation personnel were to tell the visitors that corpses were being burned as a result of epidemics.  In 1942, the CCI became "Amt D" of the Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Economic and Administrative Department; WVHA) under SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Oswald Pohl. Glucks continued to manage the camp administration

user: What was the Wannsee conference about?

assistant: a few days after the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, Himmler ordered Glucks to prepare the camps for the immediate arrival of 100,000 Jewish men

user: Did the camp actually recieve that many prisoners?

assistant: Himmler ordered Glucks to prepare the camps for the immediate arrival of 100,000 Jewish men and 50,000 women being evacuated from the Reich as labourers

user: Did these inmates eventually get executed?

assistant: Glucks was well aware of the mass murders and other atrocities committed there.

user: What were Glucks thoughts about the murders?

assistant: Glucks complained about the unfavorable location of the crematoria since all types of people would be able to "gaze" at the structures.

user: How curious were people about the structures?

assistant: if questions arose about smoke coming from the chimneys, the installation personnel were to tell the visitors that corpses were being burned as a result of epidemics.

user: Did people believe this?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What else was discussed in meetings?

assistant: nearly all the important matters concerning the concentration camps were "decided directly between the Inspector of Concentration Camps and the Reichsfuhrer-SS."

user: Who was the Reichsfuhrer-SS?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER