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of it-that "Since England, despite her militarily hopeless situation, shows no signs of willingness to come to terms, I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England and if necessary to carry it out. The aim is * * * to eliminate the English homeland as a base for the carrying on of the war against German... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 100,800 | 101,300 |
Russo-German relations. Any hope that now at the end of the term of the agreement a new Russo-German tension could arise is childish. Germany has taken no step which would lead her outside her sphere of interest, nor has Russia. But England's hope, to achieve an amelioration of her own position through the engineering ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 101,250 | 101,750 |
a communiqué was issued in the following terms: "The exchange of ideas took place in an atmosphere of mutual trust and led to a mutual understanding on all important questions interesting Germany and the Soviet Union." It is not to be supposed that the USSR would have taken part in those conversations or agreed to tha... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 101,700 | 102,200 |
weeks, after that no serious opposition was to be expected. On the 22d June at 3.30 in the morning the German Armies marched again. As Hitler said in his Proclamation: "I have decided to give the fate of the German People and of the Reich and of Europe again into the hands of our soldiers." The usual false pretexts wer... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 102,150 | 102,650 |
may be carried on without the assistance of representatives of the people. But it cannot be carried on without any assistance at all. It is no use having a leader unless there are also people willing and ready to serve their personal greed and ambition by helping and following him. The dictator who is set up in control... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 102,600 | 103,100 |
put to this nightmare and we come to consider how the future is to be lived, perhaps their guilt as murderers and robbers is of less importance and of less effect to future generations of mankind than their crime of fraud-the fraud by which they placed themselves in a position to do their murder and their robbery. This... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 103,050 | 103,550 |
1939 an extensive indoctrination in the ideas of Mein Kampf was pursued in the schools and universities of Germany, as well as in the Hitler Youth, under the direction of Baldur von Schirach, and in the SA and SS, and amongst the German population as a whole, by the agency of Rosenberg. A copy of Mein Kampf was officia... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 103,500 | 104,000 |
the general view held by Hitler and accepted and propagated by the conspirators concerning war and aggression generally. On page 556 of Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote: "The soil on which we now live was not a gift bestowed by Heaven on our forefathers. But they had to conquer it by risking their lives. So also in the future ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 103,950 | 104,450 |
one of the most essential prerequisites." In a later passage in Mein Kampf, at page 344, Hitler applies these general ideas to Germany: "If in its historical development the German people had possessed the unity of herd instinct by which other people have so much benefited, then the German Reich would probably be mistr... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 104,400 | 104,900 |
frontiers as they were in 1914 would be wholly insufficient for his purposes: "In regard to this point I should like to make the following statement: To demand that the 1914 frontiers should be restored is a glaring political absurdity that is fraught with such consequences as to make the claim itself appear criminal. ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 104,850 | 105,350 |
exist at all. But in order to become a world power, it needs that territorial magnitude which gives it the necessary importance today and assures the existence of its citizens." "We must take our stand on the principles already mentioned in regard to foreign policy, namely, the necessity of bringing our territorial are... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 105,300 | 105,800 |
the Teutonic Knights, this time to acquire soil for the German plough by means of the German sword and thus provide the nation with its daily bread." To this program of expansion in the East Hitler returns again, at the end of Mein Kampf. After discussing the insufficiency of Germany's pre-war frontiers, he again point... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 105,750 | 106,250 |
our foreign policy will be recognized as rightly conducted only when, after barely a hundred years, there will be 250 million Germans living on this continent, not packed together as the coolies in the factories of another Continent but as tillers of the soil and workers whose labour will be a mutual assurance for thei... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 106,200 | 106,700 |
of a treaty in German law should not be forgotten. The appearance of a treaty in the Reichsgesetzblatt makes it part of the statute law of Germany, so that a breach thereof is also a violation of German domestic law. (This section deals with fifteen only of the treaties which Hitler and the Nazis broke. The remainder o... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 106,650 | 107,150 |
best efforts to insure the pacific settlement of international differences." (TC-2) C. Convention Relative to the Opening of Hostilities, signed at the Hague on 18 October 1907. This Convention (TC-3) applies to Germany, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Russia. It relates to a procedur... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 107,100 | 107,600 |
certain territorial boundaries in Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Poland, Memel, Danzig etc. This treaty is interwoven with the next, which is the Treaty of Restoration of Friendly Relations between the United States and Germany. Parts I, II, and III of the Versailles Treaty are not included in th... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 107,550 | 108,050 |
concerns the nationality of inhabitants." (TC-8) The formal document by which Germany incorporated Memel into the Reich, reads as follows: "The transfer Commissioner for the Memel territory, Gauleiter und Oberpraesident Erich Koch, effected on 3 April 1939, during a conference at Memel, the final incorporation of the l... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 108,000 | 108,500 |
is signed in duplicate." (TC-49) Hitler's proclamation to the German people, dated 15 March 1939, reads as follows: "Proclamation of the Fuehrer to the German people, 15 March 1939. "To the German People: "Only a few months ago Germany was compelled to protect her fellow-countrymen, living in well-defined settlements, ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 108,450 | 108,950 |
Agreement bound themselves to cooperate for a peaceful settlement. "His Majesty's Government must also take this occasion to protest against the changes effected in Czechoslovakia by German military action, which are, in their view, devoid of any basis of legality." (TC-52) The French Government also made a protest on ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 108,900 | 109,400 |
of other organizations for the command of troops or for preparation for war is forbidden. "The great German General Staff and all similar organizations shall be dissolved and may not be reconstituted in any form." (TC-10) Article 163 provides the steps by which the reduction will take place. Chapter 2 which deals with ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 109,350 | 109,850 |
armed forces of Germany must not include any military or naval air forces." (TC-10) The formal statement made at the German Air Ministry about the reinauguration of the Air Corps is reproduced in TC-44. The public proclamation of compulsory military service is contained in TC-45. F. Treaty between the United States and... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 109,800 | 110,300 |
with certain inapplicable exceptions; and Article 3 provides that Germany and France, and Germany and Belgium agree to settle all disputes between them by peaceful means. (TC-12) The first important violation of the Treaty of Mutual Guarantee appears to have been the entry of German troops into the Rhineland on 7 March... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 110,250 | 110,750 |
of the High Contracting Parties notified to the other signatory powers three months in advance, and voting at least by a two-thirds majority, decides that the League of Nations ensures sufficient protection to the High Contracting parties; the treaty shall cease to have effect on the expiration of a period of one year ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 110,700 | 111,200 |
but to the fact that it was unanimously adopted by the Assembly of the league of Nations, of which Germany was a free and active member at the time. Referring to the unanimous adoption of the Declaration, M. Sokal, the Polish Rapporteur, had this to say: "The Committee was of opinion that, at the present juncture, a so... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 111,150 | 111,650 |
of solidarity due to a common national descent, that the right to self-determination should be guaranteed not only to foreign nations, but to the German people everywhere. "I myself believe that no regime which is not anchored in the people, supported by the people, and desired by the people, can exist permanently." (T... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 111,600 | 112,100 |
Munich Pact). "I assured him, moreover, and I repeat it here, that when this problem is solved there will be no more territorial problems for Germany in Europe. And I further assured him that from the moment when Czechoslovakia solves its other problems, that is to say, when the Czechs have come to an arrangement with ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 112,050 | 112,550 |
to Czechoslovakia." (TC-23) The provision concerns "the Polish and Hungarian minorities," not the question of Slovakia. That is why that the German action of the 15th of March was a flagrant violation of the letter and spirit of that Agreement. (For fuller discussion see Section 4 of this Chapter relating to aggression... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 112,500 | 113,000 |
VIII 331 *TC-18 Declaration concerning wars of aggression; resolution of 3rd Committee of League of Nations, 24 September 1927. (GB 17)....... VIII 357 *TC-19 Kellogg-Briand Pact at Paris. 1929 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part II, No. 9, pp. 97-101. (GB 18)....... VIII 359 *TC-21 German-Polish Declaration, 26 January 1934. (GB ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 112,950 | 113,450 |
and Assurances. (Enlargement displayed to Tribunal.)....... VIII 782 8. AGGRESSION AGAINST POLAND, DANZIG, ENGLAND AND FRANCE A. Treaties Breached. In addition to the general treaties involved-The Hague Convention in respect of the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (TC-2) ; other Hague Conventions of 1907 (T... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 113,400 | 113,900 |
that the maintenance and assurance of a permanent peace between their countries is an essential condition for general peace in Europe." "The declaration shall remain in effect for a period of ten years counting from the day of exchange of instruments of ratification. In case it is not denounced by one of the two govern... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 113,850 | 114,350 |
improvement in the European atmosphere. I merely recall an agreement with Poland which has worked out to the advantage of both sides. True statesmanship will not overlook reality but consider them. The Italian nation and the new Italian state are realities. The German nation and the German Reich are equally realities, ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 114,300 | 114,800 |
point used as a basis for concentration plans Red and Green can be aggravated if either England, Poland or Lithuania join on the side of our opponents. Thereupon our military position would be worsened to an unbearable, even hopeless, extent. The political leaders will therefore do everything to keep these countries ne... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 114,750 | 115,250 |
realize the following: "Change of the status quo in the east in the German sense can only be carried out by force. So long as France knows that England, which so to speak has taken on a guarantee to aid France against Germany, is on her side, France's fighting for her eastern allies is probable in any case, always poss... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 115,200 | 115,700 |
the Fuehrer some of these viewpoints verbally." (TC-75) On 20 February 1938, Hitler spoke in the Reichstag. In that speech he said: "In the fifth year following the first great foreign political agreement with the Reich, it fills us with sincere gratification to be able to state that in our relations with the state wit... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 115,650 | 116,150 |
basis of the assumptions for war and peace made in Section 1: "1. Attack Forces: Principal adversaries: England, France, and Russia." (L-43) The study then goes on to show all the one hundred forty-four Geschwader employed against England, very much concentrated in the Western half of the Reich; that is to say, they mu... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 116,100 | 116,600 |
of dissolution of the Czech form of states may or may not be finally speeded up by the mechanical means as well. The fate of the actual body of Czechoslovakia, however, would not as yet be clearly decided by this, but would nevertheless be definitely sealed. "This method of approach towards Czechoslovakia is to be reco... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 116,550 | 117,050 |
It is known now form what Hitler said in talking to his military commanders at a later date, that, in his own words, from the first he never intended to abide by the Munich agreement, but that he had to have the whole of Czechoslovakia. As a result, although not ready to proceed in full force against Poland, after Sept... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 117,000 | 117,500 |
out the instructions that Mr. Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, gave to Mr. Lipski to hand to the German government in reply to the suggestions put forward by Ribbentrop at Berchtesgaden on 24 October. The first part reviews the history of Polish-German relationship and emphasizes the needs of Poland in respect to Dan... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 117,450 | 117,950 |
Reich. The first stage in producing the crisis had been accomplished. Shortly afterwards, within a week or so, and after the Polish government had offered to enter into discussions with the German government, another top secret order was issued by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, signed by Keitel (C-137). Copie... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 117,900 | 118,400 |
ease. On the day after the conversation between Beck and Hitler, Beck and Ribbentrop conferred, as follows: "Mr. Beck asked M. Von Ribbentrop to inform the Chancellor that whereas previously, after all his conversations and contacts with German statesmen, he had been feeling optimistic, today for the first time he was ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 118,350 | 118,850 |
students' demonstrations during Count Ciano's visit." "Further, M. von Ribbentrop referred to the conversation at Berchtesgaden between you and the Chancellor, in which Hitler put forward the idea of guaranteeing Poland's frontiers in exchange for a motor road and the incorporation of Danzig in the Reich. He said that ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 118,800 | 119,300 |
on 21 March. The world soon learned what the solution to Memel was. On the next day German armed forces marched in. As a result of these events, considerable anxiety was growing both in the government of Great Britain and the Polish government, and the two governments therefore had been undertaking conversations betwee... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 119,250 | 119,750 |
the three branches of the armed forces. "3. The plan of the branches of the Armed Forces and the details for the time-table must be submitted to the OKW by the 1st of may, 1939." (C-120) This order was distributed to the OKH, OKM, and OKW. Another document, dated 11 April, and signed by Hitler, is annexed. It reads: "I... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 119,700 | 120,200 |
the Polish government with the British government is in such obvious contradiction to these solemn declarations of a few months ago that the German government can take note only with surprise and astonishment of such a violent reversal of Polish policy. "Irrespective of the manner in which its final formulation may be ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 120,150 | 120,650 |
rendered this declaration null and void." (TC-72 No. 14) In the last paragraph the German government says, that nevertheless, they are prepared to continue friendly relations with Poland. On the same day that memorandum was issued, 28 April, Hitler made a speech in the Reichstag, in which he repeated, in effect, the te... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 120,600 | 121,100 |
on 26 March, and that it then proposed joint guarantees by the Polish and German governments of the City of Danzig, based on the principles of freedom for the local population in internal affairs. The Poles stated their preparedness to examine the possibilities of a motor road and railway facilities. They received no r... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 121,050 | 121,550 |
Fuehrer and Supreme Commander a 'preliminary timetable' for 'Fall Weiss' based on the particulars so far available from the Navy, Army and Air Force. Details concerning the days preceding the attack and the start of the attack were not included in this timetable. "The Fuehrer and the Supreme Commander is, in the main, ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 121,500 | 122,000 |
right up to the time of the war, steps were being taken to arm the population of Danzig and to prepare them to take part in the coming occupation. The reports which were coming back almost daily during this period from Mr. Shepherd, British Consul-General in Danzig, to the British Foreign Minister, and published in the... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 121,950 | 122,450 |
attack England and France ultimately, if not at the same time as Poland. In trying to show the strength of Germany and its certainty of winning the war as a means of persuading the Italians to come in, Hitler declared: "At sea, England had for the moment no immediate reinforcements in prospect. Some time would elapse b... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 122,400 | 122,900 |
they would stand on the side of the enemies of Germany and Italy, a quick liquidation at the present moment could only be of advantage for the unavoidable conflict with the Western Democracies. if a hostile Poland remained on Germany's eastern frontier, not only would the eleven East Prussian divisions be tied down, bu... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 122,850 | 123,350 |
he had made plans for a period of two or three years. If immediate conflict were unavoidable, the Duce, as he had told Ciano, would certainly stand on the German side, but for various reasons he would welcome the postponement of a general conflict until a later time. "Ciano then showed, with the aid of a map, the posit... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 123,300 | 123,800 |
Beck had received the proposal with the remark that he was willing to examine it. The plain refusal of it came only as a result of English intervention. The general Polish aims could be seen clearly from the press. They wanted the whole of East Prussia, and even proposed to advance to Berlin." (TC-77) The meeting was h... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 123,750 | 124,250 |
decision because the Fuehrer believed that the conflict with Poland could be localized on the basis of long experience. He-Ciano-quite saw that so far the Fuehrer had always been right in his judgment of the position. If, however, Mussolini had no decision to make, he had to take certain measures of precaution, and the... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 124,200 | 124,700 |
my Fuehrer, yesterday evening approved in principle the measures prepared by me for financing the war and for shaping the relationship between wages and prices and for carrying through emergency sacrifices, made me deeply happy. I hereby report to you with all respect that I have succeeded by means of precautions taken... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 124,650 | 125,150 |
another significant passage, Hitler stated: "We need not be afraid of a blockade. The East will supply us with grain, cattle, coal, lead and zinc. It is a big arm, which demands great efforts. I am only afraid that at the last minute some Schweinehund will make a proposal for mediation. "The political arm is set farthe... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 125,100 | 125,600 |
twentyfour Germans were recently killed at Lodz and eight at Bielsko. Story is without any foundation whatever." (TC-72 No. 54) The report of the next day, 27 August, reads as follows: "So far as I can judge, German allegations of mass ill-treatment of German minority by Polish authorities are gross exaggeration, if no... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 125,550 | 126,050 |
the Russian-German Non-aggression Pact was signed in Moscow. The orders to invade Poland were given immediately after the signing of that treaty, and the H-hour was actually to be in the early morning of 25 of August. (5) Pleas for peace. On the same date, 22 August, news reached England that the German-Russian agreeme... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 126,000 | 126,500 |
will weigh with the utmost deliberation the considerations which I have put before you." (TC-72 No. 56). On the following day, 23 August, Hitler replied to Prime Minister Chamberlain. He started off by saying that Germany has always sought England's friendship, and went on to say that Germany, "like every other State, ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 126,450 | 126,950 |
on a peaceful basis is not a decision which rests on Germany, but primarily on those who since the crime committed by the Versailles dictate have stubbornly and consistently opposed any peaceful revision. Only after a change of spirit on the part of the responsible powers can there be any real change in the relationshi... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 126,900 | 127,400 |
Germany and Poland over the question of Danzig, there is not one which could not be submitted to such a method, the purpose of reaching a peaceful and just solution. "Moreover, I can declare on my honor that there is nothing in France's clear and loyal solidarity with Poland and her allies, which could in any way preju... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 127,350 | 127,850 |
I sent to you on the 14th April, I stated that it appeared to me that the leaders of great nations had it in their power to liberate their peoples from the disaster that impended, but that unless the effort were immediately made with good will on all sides to find a peaceful and constructive solution to existing contro... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 127,800 | 128,300 |
a peaceful and happier relationship, if you and the Government of the German Reich will agree to the pacific means of settlement accepted by the Government of Poland. All the world prays that Germany, too, will accept." (TC-72 No. 127) But Germany would not accept those proposals, nor would it pay heed to the Pope's ap... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 128,250 | 128,750 |
to keep out. On 28 August, Sir Neville Henderson handed the British Government's reply to that communiqué to Hitler. That reply stressed that the differences ought to be settled by agreement. The British Government put forward the view that Danzig should be guaranteed, and that any agreement reached should be guarante... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 128,700 | 129,200 |
all. As Sir Neville Henderson described it, the offer amounted to an ultimatum. At midnight on 30 August, at the time by which the Polish Plenipotentiary was expected to arrive, Sir Neville Henderson handed a further message to Ribbentrop in reply to the message that had been handed to him the previous evening. Ribbent... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 129,150 | 129,650 |
or the beginning of April, was it not fairly obvious that a peaceful solution was impossible?" (TC-90) This was Goering's answer: "Yes, it seemed impossible according to my conviction, but not according to the convictions of the Fuehrer. When it was mentioned to the Fuehrer that England had given her guarantee to Polan... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 129,600 | 130,100 |
would play their part. (798-PS) Hitler's verbal communiqué, as it is called in the British Blue Book, which he handed to Sir Neville Henderson on 25 August, after he had heard of the signing of the Anglo-Polish agreement, in an endeavor to keep England from aiding Poland, commences by stating Hitler's desire to make o... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 130,050 | 130,550 |
was not of course aware of the real object that lay behind that message, and, taking it at its face value, wrote back on 28 August saying that they were prepared to enter into discussions. They agreed with Hitler that the differences must be settled, as follows: "In the opinion of His Majesty's Government a reasonable ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 130,500 | 131,000 |
75) The German reply, as outlined before, was handed to Sir Neville Henderson at 7.15 P.M. on 29 August. The reply sets out the suggestion submitted by the British Government in a previous note, and goes on to say that the German Government is prepared to enter into discussion on the basis that the whole of the Corrido... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 130,950 | 131,450 |
evening of 29 August. As previously explained, insufficient time was allowed for the Polish Emissary to reach Berlin by midnight the following night. Sir Neville Henderson's account of his interview on the evening of 29 August summarizes what took place then: "I remarked that this phrase sounded like an ultimatum, but ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 131,400 | 131,900 |
me yesterday. This he denied, saying that idea of an ultimatum was figment of my imagination. Why then I asked could he not adopt normal procedure and give me copy of proposals and ask Polish Ambassador to call on him, just as Herr Hitler had summoned me a few days ago, and hand them to him for communication to Polish ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 131,850 | 132,350 |
Army is concerned, from the fact that it has in the meantime almost completed its dispositions. "Allotment of tasks and the operational target remain unchanged. "Date of attack-1 September 1939 "Time of attack-04:45 [inserted in red pencil] "This time also applies to the operation at Gdynia, Bay of Danzig and the Dirsc... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 132,300 | 132,800 |
of arms. "The Germans in Poland are being persecuted with bloody terror and driven from their homes. Several acts of frontier violation which cannot be tolerated by a great power show that Poland is no longer prepared to respect the Reich's frontiers. To put an end to these mad acts I can see no other way but from now ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 132,750 | 133,250 |
years before, had come to fruition despite all appeals to peace, all appeals to reason. It mattered not what anybody but the German Government had in mind or whatever rights anybody else but the German nation thought they had. If there is any doubt left about this matter, two more documents remain for consideration. Ev... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 133,200 | 133,700 |
this fast success could be achieved in one or two years. England and France would have armed their allies, to such an extent that the crushing technical superiority of the German Armed Forces could not have become so apparent anymore. I am aware, Duce, that the fight which I enter, is one for life and death. My own fat... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 133,650 | 134,150 |
indicates that the document was referred to during the trial but was not formally received in evidence, for the reason given in parentheses following the description of the document. The USA series number, given in parentheses following the description of the document, is the official exhibit number assigned by the cou... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 134,100 | 134,600 |
*2818-PS Secret additional protocol to the Friendship and Alliance Pact between Germany and Italy. (GB 292)....... V 453 2834-PS letter from Mussolini to Fuehrer, 25 August 1939....... V 502 *2835-PS German Foreign Office memorandum on conversation between Ribbentrop and the Duce, 10 March 1940. (GB 291)..... V 502 *28... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 134,550 | 135,050 |
24)........ VIII 368 *TC-28 German assurance to Czechoslovakia, 26 September 1938, from Documents of German Politics, Part VI,pp.345-346. (GB 22)....... VIII 378 *TC-29 German assurances to Poland, 26 September 1938, from Documents of German Politics, Part VI,p.336. (GB 32)......... VIII 378 *TC-53-A Marginal note to d... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 135,000 | 135,500 |
Sir N. Henderson conversation, midnight 30 August 1939. (GB 71)......... VIII 472 *TC-72 No. 110 British Blue Book. British Government's ultimatum, 1 September 1939. (GB 74)......... VIII 473 TC-72 No. 113 British Blue Book. Copy German proposals handed to Sir N. Henderson 9:15 P.M., 31 August 1939.......... VIII 474 T... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 135,450 | 135,950 |
779 **Chart No. 12 German Aggression. (Enlargement displayed to Tribunal.)........ VIII 781 **Chart No. 13 Violations of Treaties, Agreements and Assurances. (Enlargement displayed to Tribunal.)....... VIII 782 9. AGGRESSION AGAINST NORWAY AND DENMARK In the early hours of the morning of 9 April 1940 Nazi Germany invad... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 135,900 | 136,400 |
by the Nazi forces less than a year after the signature of this treaty showed the utter worthlessness of treaties to which Ribbentrop put his signature. With regard to Norway, Ribbentrop and the Nazi conspirators were party to a similar perfidy. Hitler gave an assurance to Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands on 28 Apr... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 136,350 | 136,850 |
victims of Nazi aggression to be unprepared to meet the Nazi attack. For it is now known that as early as October 1939 the conspirators were Plotting the invasion of Norway, and that the most active conspirators in that plot were Raeder and Rosenberg. B. Early Planning for Invasion. The Norwegian invasion is in one res... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 136,800 | 137,300 |
shows that the evolution of this Nazi campaign against Norway affords a good example of the participation of the German High Command in the Nazi conspiracy to attack inoffensive neighbors. Before this report of October 1939 was made to the Fuehrer, Raeder sought a second opinion on the Norwegian invasion. On 3 October ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 137,250 | 137,750 |
in a "Brief Report on Activities of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Party (Aussenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP) from 1933 to 1943" (007-PS). This was Rosenberg's Bureau. The report reads: "When the Foreign Affairs Bureau (Aussenpolitische Amt) was established on the 1st of April 1933, the Fuehrer directed that it should ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 137,700 | 138,200 |
annex reads: "As previously mentioned, of all political groupings in Scandinavia, only 'Nasjonal Samling', led in Norway by the former Minister of War and Major of the Reserve, Vidkun Quisling, deserved serious political attention. This was a fighting political group, possessed by the idea of a Greater Germanic Communi... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 138,150 | 138,650 |
prolonging its own life which is to become operative on January 12th. Quisling still retains in his capacity as a long-standing officer and a former Minister of War, the closest relations with the Norwegian Army. He a short time previously from the Commanding Officer in Narvik, Colonel Sunlo. In this letter, Colonel Su... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 138,600 | 139,100 |
German forces summoned by Norway, or "(b) To agree to do so by force." (C-64) It was at a meeting on 12 December that Raeder made the above report to Hitler. Raeder's record of these transactions reports the next event: "Thus, we got in touch with Quisling and Hagelin, who came to Berlin at the beginning of December an... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 139,050 | 139,550 |
defrayed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs [Ribbentrop's organization], the Minister for Foreign Affairs [Ribbentrop] being kept continuously informed by the Foreign Affairs Bureau [Rosenberg's organization]. "Chief of Section Scheidt was charged with maintaining liaison with Quisling. In the course of further develo... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 139,500 | 140,000 |
February reads: "Fuehrer has talked with General von Falkenhorst, and charges him with preparation of 'Weser Exercise.' Falkenhorst accepts gladly. Instructions issued to the three branches of the armed forces." (1809-PS) The entry for 28 February reads: "I propose, first to the Chief of OKW and then to the Fuehrer tha... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 139,950 | 140,450 |
21st Army Corps, General von Falkenhorst. * * *" "The crossing of the Danish border and the landings in Norway must take place simultaneously. I emphasize that the operations must be prepared as quickly as possible. In case the enemy seizes the initiative against Norway, we must be able to apply immediately our own cou... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 140,400 | 140,900 |
to the Fuehrer through Reichsleiter Rosenberg. During the night of the 16th to 17th of February, English destroyers attacked the German steamer 'Altmark' in Jessingjord. * * *" (007-PS) (That is a reference to the action by the British destroyer Cossack against the German naval auxiliary vessel Altmark, which was carry... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 140,850 | 141,350 |
anyone and wants to show that all preparations so far made are worthless. "Result: (a) Stronger forces to Narvik. "(b) Navy to leave ships in the ports (Hipper of Luetzow in Trondheim). "(c) Christiansand can be left out at first. "(d) Six divisions envisaged for Norway. "(e) A foothold to be gained immediately in Cope... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 141,300 | 141,800 |
particular stress on the importance of not giving away the operation before zero hour." (C-115) An order for reconnaissance forces, dated 24 March 1940, entitled "Behavior during entrance into the harbor," reads in part: "The disguise as British craft must be kept up as long as possible, All challenges in Morse by Norw... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 141,750 | 142,250 |
does not intend to make use of the points occupied by German troops as bases for operations against England, so long as it is not forced to do so by measures taken by England and France. German military operations aim much more exclusively at protecting the north against proposed occupation of Norwegian strong points b... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 142,200 | 142,700 |
of his division, technical staffs and specialists who were to take over the control of Oslo, was sunk. The plan to capture the King and members of the Government and Parliament failed in spite of the surprise of the attack; resistance was organizes throughout the country." (TC-56) What happened in Denmark is described ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 142,650 | 143,150 |
my staff from actual eye-witnesses or from reliable information subsequently received and are given below. Early in the morning towards 5 o'clock three small German transports steamed into the approach to Copenhagen harbor, whilst a number of airplanes circled overhead. The northern battery, guarding the harbor approac... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 143,100 | 143,600 |
war with us, the task of the Foreign Office is finished. In the Fuehrer's opinion, force has to be used. It is said that Gauleiter Terboven will be given a post. Field Marshal [presumably a reference to Goering] is moving in the same direction. He criticizes as defects that we didn't take sufficiently energetic measure... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 143,550 | 144,050 |
themselves politically, economically and militarily to be completely dependent on Germany. If the following results are achieved-that expansion is undertaken (on a scale I shall describe later) by means of the military measures for occupation taken during the war, that French powers of resistance (popular unity, minera... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 144,000 | 144,500 |
Nazi Plan", script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167)...... V 801 *3596-PS Covering memorandum and notes of conversation on 8 August 1940, between Chief Custodian of Army Archives GOES and Major-General Himer....... VI 299 *C-5 Memorandum to Supreme Command of the Navy by Doenitz, 9 October... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 144,450 | 144,950 |
LUXEMBOURG The independence of Belgium, which for so many centuries was the cockpit of Europe, was guaranteed by the great European powers in 1839. that guarantee was observed for 75 years, until it was broken by the Germans in 1914, who brought all the horrors of war, and the even greater horrors of German occupation,... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 144,900 | 145,400 |
Germany was entitled to renounce obligations under the Locarno Pact. But Belgium was left in the air, in the sense that it had itself entered into various obligations under the Locarno Pact in return for the liabilities which other nations acknowledge, and now one of those liabilities, namely, the liability of Germany ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol1): Chapter IX - The Plotting of Aggressive War | 145,350 | 145,850 |
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