A memo attesting to Richard Glucks’ death
5 October 1945
College Park, US National Archive

In a memo to Somerhough drafted in early November 1945, Draper summarised the position of the outstanding members of Amtsgruppe D: Dr Enno Lolling had committed suicide; Karl Sommer was in American custody in Berlin; Richard Glücks was said to have committed suicide after being discharged from a hospital near Flensburg in north Germany, although Draper was not convinced by this story; and Oswald Pohl, Gerhard Maurer and Rudolf Höss were still at large. There was much work to be done
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