Order for Protective Custody

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Günter Discher, born March 20, 1925, in Hamburg, became a fan of swing music early on [see
Audio/Video]. He succeeded in avoiding service in the Hitler Youth. He also managed to get around
the difficulties in obtaining jazz records, difficulties imposed by Nazi prohibitions and limitations. He
became an expert in the phonograph record black market. By having soldier friends, who were
stationed in occupied countries, send him records through the military postal system he was able to
supply himself with the coveted disks. He sold them to friends and fellow fans, and also to the dance
halls of the jazz scene in St. Pauli. For these reasons, the Gestapo arrested him when he was
seventeen years old. He was interned in the youth concentration camp of Moringen as Number 852
on the basis of the following Schutzhaftbefehl [Order for Protective Custody]. (In Exhibit Catalog.
"Wir hatten noch gar nicht angefangen zu leben." [We Had Barely Begun to Live], Moringen, 1992.
p.23.)
Secret State Police (Gestapo) Berlin SW 11, January 15, 1943 Secret State Police
Headquarters Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8
IV C2 Arrest-No. D. 10446
Order for Protective Custody
First and last name: Günther Leonhard Johannes Discher Birth date and place: October 20,
1925, in Hamburg Occupation: business apprentice Marital status: single Citizenship:
German Reich Religion: Evangelical Lutheran Race (mandatory for non-Aryans): Street and
city address: Hamburg 19, Charlottenstrasse 21
arrested
Reasons:
He (She), endangers, according to the evidence of the state police, proven by his (her)
behavior the existence and security of the people and state, in that he (she) brings
substantial unrest into the population by his subversive and harmful activities.
(signed) Müller Certified
Criminal Councilor