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born others in which they participated because they were too ineffective to alter the governing Nazi policies, and because they had to continue collaboration to save their own skins. Having joined the partnership, the General Staff and High Command group planned and carried through manifold acts of aggression which tur... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 7 - The General Staff and the High Command of the Armed Forces | 33,750 | 34,250 |
killing of commandos, 18 October 1942. (USA 501) ......................... III 416 *503-PS Letter signed by Jodl, 19 October 1942, concerning Hitler's explanation of his commando order of the day before (Document 498-PS). (USA 542) ......................... III 426 *506-PS Draft of top secret letter, 22 June 1944, init... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 7 - The General Staff and the High Command of the Armed Forces | 34,200 | 34,700 |
"Barbarossa" and "Sonnenblume" (African operation). (USA 134) ......................... III 626 *1061-PS Official report of Stroop, SS and Police Leader of Warsaw, on destruction of Warsaw Ghetto, 1943. (USA 275) ......................... III 718 *1279-PS Minutes of meeting concerning treatment of members of foreign "M... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 7 - The General Staff and the High Command of the Armed Forces | 34,650 | 35,150 |
von Brauchitsch, 7 November 1945. (USA 535) ......................... VI 415 *3706-PS Affidavit of Colonel-General Johannes Blaskowitz, 10 November 1945. (USA 537) ......................... VI 417 *3707-PS Affidavit of Colonel-General Franz Halder, 13 November 1945. (USA 533) ......................... VI 419 *3708-PS A... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 7 - The General Staff and the High Command of the Armed Forces | 35,100 | 35,600 |
3 October 1939. (GB 82) ......................... VI 928 *C-126 Preliminary Time Table for "Fall Weiss" and directions for secret mobilization. (GB 45) ......................... VI 932 *C-136 OKW Order on preparations for war, 21 October 1938, signed by Hitler and initialed by Keitel. (USA 104) ........................... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 7 - The General Staff and the High Command of the Armed Forces | 35,550 | 36,050 |
offenses by non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 301) ......................... VII 226 *D-767 Memorandum, 13 September 1944, on offenses by non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 303) ......................... VII 228 *D-769 Telegram signed by Gen. Christiansen, 21 September 1940, relative to a... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 7 - The General Staff and the High Command of the Armed Forces | 36,000 | 36,500 |
lecture delivered by Jodl on 7 November 1943 at Munich to Reich and Gauleiters. (USA 34) ......................... VII 920 *L-180 Report by SS Brigade Commander Stahlecker to Himmler, "Action Group A", 15 October 1941. (USA 276) ......................... VII 978 *L-323 Entry in Naval War Diary concerning operation "Wes... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 7 - The General Staff and the High Command of the Armed Forces | 36,450 | 36,950 |
707 **Chart No. 7 Organization of the Wehrmacht 1938-1945. (Enlargement displayed to Tribunal.) ......................... VIII 776 **Chart No. 10 1938 Proposals for Luftwaffe Expansion 1938-1950. (L-43; GB 29) ......................... VIII 779 Chapter XV Part 6 Contents Chapter XVI Part 1 Avalon Home Document Collecti... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 7 - The General Staff and the High Command of the Armed Forces | 36,900 | 37,027 |
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of street fighters. He was designated Hitler's first political assistant. "The movement was conducted by the Fuehrer from Munich. But one man has to act for him in Berlin, while Gauleiter Goebbels stirs up the masses and makes them ripe for National Socialism, a man on whom he could rely unconditionally to the same ext... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 450 | 950 |
followed him for over a decade with unreserved faith, and I will follow him with the same unconditional faith until my end." (3251-PS) (b) Prussia, 1933-36. Immediately after the 30th of January 1933, Goering was awarded the key post of acting Prussian Minister of the Interior, and shortly thereafter, that of Minister ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 900 | 1,400 |
the most important points on our program. In the former Weimar Constitution the destruction of Communism was unthinkable. For the execution of these measures we needed the instrument of a through and through reliable, and of the highest degree powerful, police force. I have created this instrument through the reorganiz... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 1,350 | 1,850 |
those who made critical remarks ("Miesmacher"); failure to do so regarded as proof of hostile attitude. Directive of 23 June 1933 (Ministerial-Blatt fuer die Preussische innere Verwaltung, 1933, p. 749): Suppressed all activities of the Social Democratic Party, including meetings and press, and ordered confiscation of ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 1,800 | 2,300 |
the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich." (2986-PS) In 1936, Goering was made Plenipotentiary for the Four-Year Plan and acquired plenary legislative and administrative powers over all German economic life. (1862-PS) Goering was a member of the Secret Cabinet Council established in 1938 to act as "an advis... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 2,250 | 2,750 |
secure the food supply for Germany for many years ahead and to make Germany self-sufficient. The most important items were iron, petroleum and rubber. * * * The industry only wanted to have very high grade Swedish iron for business reasons. There was danger that during the war Germany would not be able to get iron from... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 2,700 | 3,200 |
nothing but the complete preparation of each plant for mobilization day." (R-140) A few weeks after the Munich agreement, on 14 October 1938, another conference was held in Goering's office. He began with the statement that Hitler had instructed him to organize a gigantic armament program which would make insignificant... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 3,150 | 3,650 |
such as Goering, Goebbels, Ley, Frick, Frank, Darre and others, repeatedly scoffed at my position as to the binding character of treaties and openly stated to me that Germany would observe her international undertakings only so long as it suited Germany's interests to do so." (2385-PS) (2) The Launching of Aggressive W... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 3,600 | 4,100 |
was to send to Berlin requesting the Nazi Government to send German troops to "prevent bloodshed". Two days later he was able to call Ribbentrop in London and say: "Yes, the last march into the Rhineland is completely overshadowed. The Fuehrer was deeply moved, when he talked to me last night. You must remember it was ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 4,050 | 4,550 |
negotiations toward independence are to be supported in a suitable manner. Czechoslovakia without Slovakia is still more at our mercy." (2801-PS) In the following year, with the rape of Czechoslovakia complete Goering frankly stated what Germany's purpose had been throughout the whole affair: "In a rather long statemen... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 4,500 | 5,000 |
of 8 February 1941 and 27 March 1941, at which Hitler outlined the prospective operations against Yugoslavia and Greece. (1746-PS) Orders and Other Directives Received: Directive of Blomberg to the armed forces containing plans for military operations in the event that sanctions were applied against German withdrawal f... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 4,950 | 5,450 |
often directly in the German armament industry, and the second was to destroy or weaken the peoples of the occupied territories. Millions of foreign workers were taken to Germany, for the most part under pressure and generally by physical force. These workers were forced to labor under conditions of indescribable bruta... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 5,400 | 5,900 |
Labor Service of the Poles. Upon the demands from the Reich it has now been decreed that compulsion may be exercised in view of the fact that sufficient manpower was not voluntarily available for service inside the German Reich. This compulsion means the possibility of arrest of male and female Poles. Because of these ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 5,850 | 6,350 |
order to secure "blameless conduct". He stated: "The steps to be taken to combat insubordination and noncompliance with the duty to work, must be decided according to the severity of the case and to the spirit of resistance of the offender. It is of most importance that they be taken immediately after the offense is co... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 6,300 | 6,800 |
in Germany after most careful screening. "This mobilization shall first of all, as heretofore, be carried out on a voluntary basis. For this reason, the recruiting effort for employment in the German Reich must be strengthened considerably. But if satisfactory results are to be obtained, the German authorities, who are... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 6,750 | 7,250 |
particularly for armaments, it is necessary that the utilization of all available manpower, including that of workers recruited [erwerben] abroad and of prisoners of war, should be subject to a uniform control, directed in a manner appropriate to the requirements of war industry, and further that all still incompletely... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 7,200 | 7,700 |
these crimes. At a conference on 7 November 1941, the subject of which was the employment of Russians, including Russian prisoners of war, it appears from a memorandum signed by Koerner, State Secretary to the defendant Goering as Plenipotentiary for the Four-Year Plan, that Goering gave the following directives for us... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 7,650 | 8,150 |
for Russian prisoners of war. In both categories, particularly good production can be acknowledged by a limited distribution of luxury items. Sufficient, adequate nourishment is also the main thing for the free workers." (1193-PS) In a set of top secret notes on what was apparently the same conference, the following ap... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 8,100 | 8,600 |
"I confirm, that it was the official policy of the Governor General, Hans Frank, to take into custody all important art treasures, which belonged to Polish public institutions, private collections and the Church. I confirm, that the art treasures, mentioned, were actually confiscated, and it is clear to me, that they w... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 8,550 | 9,050 |
the assistance which he had rendered to the work of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg. In a letter to Rosenberg, of that date, he stated: "* * * On the other hand I also support personally the work of your Einsatzstab wherever I can do so, and a great part of the seized cultural goods can be accounted for because I was able to... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 9,000 | 9,500 |
General all raw materials, scrap materials, machines, etc., which are of use for the German war economy. Enterprises which are not absolutely necessary for the meager maintenance of the naked existence of the population must be transferred to Germany, unless such transfer would require an unreasonably long period of ti... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 9,450 | 9,950 |
Germanism, so requires." (1665-PS). The spoliation of Soviet territory and resources and the barbarous treatment inflicted on Soviet citizens were the result of plans long made and carefully drawn up by the Nazis before they launched their aggressive war on the Soviet Union. The Nazis planned to destroy the industrial ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 9,900 | 10,400 |
1941, kept by Bormann, disclose Hitler's announcement that the Nazis never intended to leave the countries then being occupied by their Armies. The Fuehrer further declared that although the rest of the world was to be deceived on this point, nevertheless, "this need not prevent us taking all necessary measures-shootin... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 10,350 | 10,850 |
and in the camp. Such installations are necessary in order to secure production of the now fully developed most modern airplanes. The Fuehrer upon his visit in Insterburg has attached great value to these airplanes. Intermediate negotiations have already been held between my and your departments. I would be especially ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 10,800 | 11,300 |
Himmler on 31 August 1942: "Dear Mr. Himmler: "I thank you very much for your letter of the 25 Aug. I have read with great interest the reports of Dr. Rascher and Dr. Romberg. I am informed about the current experiments. I shall ask the two gentlemen to give a lecture combined with the showing of motion pictures to my ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 11,250 | 11,750 |
step in his campaign was a law requiring registration of all Jewish-owned property. In April 1938 Goering and Frick signed such a law (1406-PS). Armed with the information thus secured, the Nazi conspirators were fully prepared to take the next step. The killing of von Rath in Paris on 9 November 1938 was made the pret... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 11,700 | 12,200 |
this aryanizing, if it is to be done quickly, cannot be made in the Ministry for Economy in Berlin. That way, we would never finish * * *. "It is my lot, so that the damage will not be greater than the profit, which we are striving for. "It is obvious, gentlemen, that the Jewish stores are for the people, and not the s... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 12,150 | 12,650 |
You make a wonderful Petidum there. You'll fulfill your obligations, you may count on that." (1816-PS) It is impossible here to quote further from the extensive discussion of all phases of persecution of the Jews which took place at this meeting. It is sufficient to point out that on the same day Goering, over his own ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 12,600 | 13,100 |
During the later years of the war, the program of the Nazi conspirators for the complete physical annihilation of all Jews in Europe achieved its full fury. While the execution of this program was for the most part handled by the SS and the Security Police, Goering remains implicated in the final phases of the Nazi "So... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 13,050 | 13,550 |
1937. (USA 25) ......................... III 295 *440-PS Directive No. 8 signed by Keitel, 20 November 1939, for the conduct of the war. (GB 107) ......................... III 397 *447-PS Top Secret Operational Order to Order No. 21, signed by Keitel, 13 March 1941, concerning Directives for special areas. (USA 135) ..... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 13,500 | 14,000 |
p. 1579 ......................... IV 6 *1584-I-PS Teletype from Goering to Himmler, 14 February 1944, concerning formation of 7th Airforce Group squadron for special purposes. (USA 221) ......................... IV 117 *1584-III-PS Correspondence between Himmler and Goering, 9 March 1944, concerning use of concentratio... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 13,950 | 14,450 |
by SA Sturmfuehrer Dr. Ernst Bayer, entitled "The SA", depicting the history, work, aim and organization of the SA. (USA 411) ......................... IV 772 *2194-PS Top secret letter from Ministry for Economy and Labor, Saxony, to Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, enclosing copy of 1938 Secret Defense Law of 4... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 14,400 | 14,900 |
from Heydrich on termination of protest actions. (USA 240) ......................... V 797 *3054-PS "The Nazi Plan", script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167) ......................... V 801 *3058-PS Letter from Heydrich to Goering, 11 November 1938, reporting action against the Jews. (USA ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 14,850 | 15,350 |
VI 817 *C-39 Timetable for Barbarossa, approved by Hitler and signed by Keitel. (USA 138) ......................... VI 857 *C-59 Order signed by Warlimont for execution of operation "Marita", 19 February 1941. (GB 121) ......................... VI 879 *C-62 Directive No. 6 on the conduct of war, signed by Hitler, 9 Oct... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 15,300 | 15,800 |
of "Terrorist"-aviators. (GB 316) ......................... VII 240 *D-785 Note from OKW to Supreme Commander of "Luftwaffe", 4 July 1944, concerning "Terror"-flyers. (GB 318) ......................... VII 241 *EC-3 Letter of Liaison Staff at Supreme Headquarters, Armament Procurement Office directed to General Thomas,... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 1 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering | 15,750 | 16,250 |
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Political Committee of the Party, in order to restore its strength and unity (3132-PS). Shortly thereafter, Hess took part in the decisive negotiations which brought the Nazi conspirators into power on 30 January 1933 (3132-PS). C. ESTABLISHMENT OF TOTALITARIAN CONTROL OVER GERMANY. Upon the conspirators' accession to ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 450 | 950 |
status of Reich and State civil servants (3183-PS). A further decree of 3 April 1936 provided for Hess's participation in the appointment of Labor Service officials (3182-PS). (3) Hess gained control over Local Government Administration. This control was effected through the German Municipality Act of 30 January 1935 p... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 900 | 1,400 |
these were the Secret Order of 27 July 1938 making clergymen ineligible for party offices (113-PS); the Party directive of 14 July 1939 making the clergy and theology students ineligible for Party membership (840-PS); the letter of 22 February 1940 discussing ways and means of eliminating religious instruction from the... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 1,350 | 1,850 |
Army (388-PS, Item 32). (2) Political Planning for War. when the Reich Defense Council was reorganized in September 1938, Hess became one of its members with the express assignment of assuring "the political direction of the nation" (2261-PS). Hess was also made a member of the Ministers' Council for the Defense of the... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 1,800 | 2,300 |
[Volks-Genossen] in foreign countries. It has made them conscious and proud members of this racial community! * * * "Under the leadership of the Foreign Organization, Germandom abroad is also becoming more and more filled with the National Socialist spirit. The Foreign Organization of the NSDAP has brought together the... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 2,250 | 2,750 |
abroad for spreading Nazi propaganda (3124-PS). The DAI also based its activities on the proposition that all persons of German ancestry belonged to the Nazi German Reich, though they held citizenship in foreign countries. This was stated by Nazi Minister-President Mergenthaler of Wuerttemberg in his address at the 193... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 2,700 | 3,200 |
orders of Hess. As early as 1934 Hess had appointed Reinthaler leader of the Nazi peasants in Austria, and thus placed him in a position to take over the leadership of the Nazi Fifth Column in Austria (812-PS). Hess took a major part in the negotiations carried on by Seyss-Inquart and other members of the conspiracy in... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 3,150 | 3,650 |
Part I, p. 2077). When in July 1941 the Nazi conspirators occupied Greece, the members of the local Nazi Party were ready to take over as an auxiliary Army service (3258-PS). Thus, wherever the conspirators sent their invading armies Hess' fifth-column had prepared the soil. E. PARTICIPATION IN THE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 3,600 | 4,100 |
wars, the Nazi conspirators embarked on the execution of their plan to exterminate the non-German populations which fell into their hands. This plan, especially insofar as it concerned the Jews, had been bluntly revealed by Hitler well in advance in his address to the Reichstag on 30 January 1939: "If inter-national fi... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 4,050 | 4,550 |
conspiracy's most powerful instrument of political action rested in his hands. Hess used this power to penetrate and dominate the German government administration with National Socialist functionaries; to control legislation and education; and to persecute all independent groups, especially the churches and the Jews. B... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 4,500 | 5,000 |
*101-PS Letter from Hess' office signed Bormann to Rosenberg, 17 January 1940, concerning undesirability of religious literature for members of the Wehrmacht. (USA 361)....III 160 *107-PS Circular letter signed Bormann, 17 June 1938, enclosing directions prohibiting participation of Reichsarbeitsdienst in religious cel... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 4,950 | 5,450 |
349 *1866-PS Record of conversation between Reich Foreign Minister and the Duce, 13 May 1941. (GB 273).....IV 499 1942-PS Hess' participation in legislative process, published in Legal Regulations and Legal Problems of the Movement, by Dr. O. Gauweiler, p. 20.....IV 584 1969-PS Correspondence of Party officials, concer... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 5,400 | 5,900 |
from Rudolf Hess - Speeches. (GB 253)....V 902 3132-PS Extracts from Dates of the History of the NSDAP, 1939.....V 906 3163-PS The Deputy of the Fuehrer - Rudolf Hess, published in National Socialist Yearbook, 1941, pp. 219-22.....V 914 *3178-PS Law to Secure the Unity of Party and State, 1 December 1933. 1933 Reichsge... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 5,850 | 6,350 |
38 3347-PS Seniority List of the SS, of NSDAP, as of 1 December 1936.....VI 78 *3385-PS Hess Order of 14 December 1938 concerning position of the SD within the Party, from Decrees, Regulations, Announcements, Vol. IV, Part I, p. 231. (GB 257).....VI 104 *3401-PS National Socialism and German Nationalism Abroad, from Vo... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 6,300 | 6,800 |
Record of interview with Hess, 14 May 1941. (GB 271)....VIII 43 *M-119 Record of conversation with Hess, 15 May 1941. (GB 272)....VIII 45 M-120 "The VDA and the Nazi Party", extracted from German Basic Handbook, Part III, Chap. IV...VIII 46 M-121 "German Foreign Institute", extracted from German Basic Handbook, Part II... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 2 - Rudolf Hess | 6,750 | 7,017 |
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with Japan in November 1936, and also the additional pact by which Italy joined it in 1937. Finally, on 24 February 1938, Ribbentrop was appointed Foreign Minister in place of von Neurath, and simultaneously was made a member of the Secret Cabinet Council (Geheimer Kabinettsrat) established by decree of Hitler of the s... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 450 | 950 |
to Ribbentrop in London in order that he might placate and reassure political circles in London (2949-PS). The third step was taken by Ribbentrop after his return from London. Although he had been appointed Foreign Minister in February, he had gone back to London to clear up his business at the embassy. Although he was... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 900 | 1,400 |
to get assurances of Hungarian help, and that the Hungarian Government at the time was not too ready to commit itself to action, although it was ready enough with sympathy. Contacts had been established with the Sudeten Germans, for theirs was the long-term grievance that had to be exploited. But the next stage was to ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 1,350 | 1,850 |
to assist in the disintegration of Czechoslovakia (2802-PS). A previous meeting along the same lines had been held a month before (2790-PS). Thus, Ribbentrop was assisting in the task, again, of fomenting internal trouble. On 14 March 1939, the following day, Hacha, the President of Czechoslovakia, was called to Berlin... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 1,800 | 2,300 |
20 February 1938 (2357-PS), the secret Foreign Office memorandum of 26 August 1938 (TC-76), and the conversation between M. Lipski, the Polish ambassador, and Ribbentrop (TC-73, No. 40). A final illustration of this technique is Hitler's speech at the Sportzpalast on 26 September 1938, in which he said that this was th... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 2,250 | 2,750 |
myself, and on August 11th I went to Salzburg. It was in his residence at Fuschl that Ribbentrop informed me, while we were waiting to sit down at the table, of the decision to start the fireworks, just as he might have told me about the most unimportant and commonplace administrative matter. 'Well, Ribbentrop,' I aske... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 2,700 | 3,200 |
interrogated (after capture) regarding the significance of this event, Ribbentrop expressed a complete absence of recollection of ever having seen the German Ambassador to England after his return. Ribbentrop thought he would have remembered him if he had seen him, and therefore he accepted the probability that he did ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 3,150 | 3,650 |
your representatives would be broken up, which just now, under certain circumstances, could be very unfavorable. "Therefore I trust that it is in everybody's interest, if P. M. Scheidt goes back immediately." (957-PS) In a report to Hitler on the Quisling activities, Rosenberg outlined Ribbentrop's part in the preparat... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 3,600 | 4,100 |
for three months, commencing on the 15 of March, to support his work". (004-PS) This sum was paid through Scheidt. In a letter to Ribbentrop dated 3 April 1940, Keitel wrote: "Dear Herr von Ribbentrop: "The military occupation of Denmark and Norway has been, by command of the Fuehrer, long in preparation by the High co... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 4,050 | 4,550 |
decided to liquidate certain neutrals (1871-PS): "* * * Generally speaking, it would be best to liquidate the pseudo-neutrals one after the other. This is fairly easily done, if one Axis partner protects the rear of the other, who is just finishing off one of the uncertain neutrals, and vice versa. Italy may consider Y... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 4,500 | 5,000 |
the Duce." (1842-PS). Several months later, in January 1941, at the meeting between Hitler and Mussolini in which Ribbentrop participated, the Greek operation was discussed. Hitler stated that the German troops in Rumania were for use in the planned campaign against Greece (C-134). Count Ciano, who attended that meetin... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 4,950 | 5,450 |
be his liaison man with Rosenberg and also assigned a Consul General, Brauetigam, who had many years experience in the USSR, as a collaborator with Rosenberg (1039-PS). The following month, on 18 May 1941, the German Foreign Office prepared a declaration setting forth operational zones in the Arctic Ocean and the Balti... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 5,400 | 5,900 |
in the vent of war occurring between Japan and the United States as a result of Japanese aggression in the Pacific (1881-PS). The development of Ribbentrop's views is indicated by the minutes of another conversation with the Japanese Foreign Minister (1882-PS): "* * * Matsuoka then spoke of the general high morale in G... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 5,850 | 6,350 |
that that will not only be to the interest of Germany and Japan jointly, but would bring about favorable results for Japan and herself.'" (D-656). Then the Japanese Ambassador replied: "'I can make no definite statement as I am not aware of any concrete intentions of Japan. Is Your Excellency indicating that a state of... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 6,300 | 6,800 |
closest possible way, with the aggression by Japan against the United States. Another intercepted diplomatic message from the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin states (D-657): "At 1 p.m. today [8 December 1941] I called on Foreign minister Ribbentrop and told him our wish was to have Germany and Italy issue formal declarat... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 6,750 | 7,250 |
part must fight alone." (2954-PS) Ribbentrop's pressure on Japan to attack Russia is shown in another report of Japanese-German discussions on 18 April 1943 (2929-PS): "The Reichsminister for Foreign affairs then stressed again that without any doubt this year presented the most favorable opportunity for Japan, if she ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 7,200 | 7,700 |
of this seems to be that if they were not lynched under the first scheme, by the crowd, then they were to be kept from prisoners of war, where they would be subject to the protecting power's intervention. And if the suspicion was confirmed, they would be handed over to the SD to be killed. The conference reached a deci... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 7,650 | 8,150 |
by the Security Service, SD. "1. In the cases of lynching, the precise establishment of the circumstances deserving punishment, according to points 1-4 of the communication of 15 June, is not very essential. First, the German authorities are not directly responsible, since death had occurred before a German official be... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 8,100 | 8,600 |
of the violation of existing treaties, and maybe not even the adoption of reprisals upon German prisoners of war. At any rate this solution would enable us clearly to define our attitude, thus relieving us of the necessity of openly having to renounce the present agreements or of the need of having to use excuses, whic... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 8,550 | 9,050 |
able to commit numerous violations of the laws of war, and crimes against humanity. (Discussion of these matters was assumed as the responsibility of the Soviet prosecuting staff.) Similarly, with regard to the Netherlands, on 18 May 1940 a decree of the Fuehrer concerning the exercise of governmental authority in the ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 9,000 | 9,500 |
elaborated in a long document which he had sent out by the Foreign Office (3358-PS). This document, entitled "The Jewish Question As A Factor In German Foreign Policy in the year 1938" contains the following: "It is certainly no coincidence that the fateful year 1938 has brought nearer the solution of the Jewish questi... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 9,450 | 9,950 |
D. CONCLUSION Hitler summed up Ribbentrop's contribution to the Nazi conspiracy for aggression, as follows: "In the historic year of 1938 the Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, was of great help to me, in view of his accurate and audacious judgment and the exceptionally clever treatment of all problems of foreign policy... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 9,900 | 10,400 |
1942 between Hitler, Rosenberg, Lammers, Bormann. (GB 156)....IV 65 *1746-PS Conference between German and Bulgarian Generals, 8 February 1941; speech by Hitler to German High Command on situation in Yugoslavia, 27 March 1941; plan for invasion of Yugoslavia, 28 March 1941. (GB 120)....IV 272 *1752-PS Preparation for I... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 10,350 | 10,850 |
Ribbentrop and Attolico, 27 August 1938 and 2 September 1938. (USA 87)....V 426 *2796-PS German Foreign Office notes on conversations between Hitler, Ribbentrop and von Weizsacker and the Hungarian Ministers Imredy and von Kanya, 23 August 1938. (USA 88)....V 430 *2797-PS German Foreign Office memorandum of conversatio... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 10,800 | 11,300 |
Party between 1935 and 1938. (USA 96)....V 855 *3060-PS Dispatch from German Minister in Prague to foreign Office in Berlin about policy arrangements with Henlein, 16 March 1938. (USA 93)....V 856 *3061-PS Supplement No. 2 to the Official Czechoslovak Report entitled "German Crimes Against Czechoslovakia" (document 998... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 11,250 | 11,750 |
Minister on 29 April 1939. (GB 289)....VII 192 *D-738 Memorandum on second conference between German Foreign Minister with Hungarian Prime and Foreign Minister on 1 May 1939. (GB 290)....VII 193 *D-740 Minutes of conference between German Foreign Minister and Secretary of State Bastianini on 8 April 1943. (GB 297)....V... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 11,700 | 12,200 |
37 Polish White Book. Hitler's Reichstag speech, 20 February 1938.....VIII 481 TC-73 No. 40 Polish White Book. Lipski and Ribbentrop, 10 September 1938.....VIII 481 TC-73 No. 42 Polish White Book. Extracts from speech by Hitler at Sportspalast, 26 September 1938....VIII 482 *TC-73 No. 44 Polish White Book. Lipski, Ribb... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 3 - Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 12,150 | 12,454 |
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the supreme consideration guiding the work of the committee was to be secrecy. "No document", he said, "ought to be lost, since otherwise it may fall into the hands of the enemy's intelligence service. Orally transmitted matters are not provable; they can be denied by us in Geneva." He requested that written documents ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 450 | 950 |
of the Working Committee of the Reich Defense Council, held on 14 May 1936, was opened by Field Marshal von Blomberg, War Minister and Supreme Army Commander. he stressed the necessity for a total mobilization, including the drafting of the necessary laws, preparations in the re-militarized Rhineland zone, financing an... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 900 | 1,400 |
collaboration between the armed forces, the chief Reich offices, and the Party. Keitel regulated the activities of this committee and issued directions to the plenipotentiaries and certain Reich ministries to assure uniform execution of the council's decisions. (2194-PS) The two plenipotentiaries and the OKW formed wha... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 1,350 | 1,850 |
on 5 March 1941. This order was distributed to the OKH, OKM, and OKL, and also to Jodl. It stated that Japan must be drawn actively into the war, and that the taking of Singapore would mean a decisive success for the three powers. (C-75) At about the time this order was issued, a meeting was held with Hitler, in which ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 1,800 | 2,300 |
as a rule within a week after arrest. In case of trial in Germany, it was provided that alien witnesses could be heard only with the consent of the High Command of the Armed Forces and that the public would not be admitted to the proceedings. (L-90) In a communication issued by him in his capacity as Chief of the High ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 2,250 | 2,750 |
On 8 September 1942 Keitel initialed a Hitler order requiring citizens of France, Holland, and Belgium to work on the "Atlantic Wall". The order was to be enforced by the withdrawal of food and clothing ration cards (556-2-PS). Keitel was informed of the quotas of foreign laborers which Sauckel and his agents were to f... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 2,700 | 3,200 |
is immaterial, for it is certain that Keitel and Jodl knew of the lynchings, did nothing to prevent them, and in fact considered giving them official justification. (See also "F", 8, infra, in which the joint responsibility of Keitel and Jodl for the lynching of Allied airmen is discussed.) Keitel's criminal activities... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 3,150 | 3,650 |
(081-PS) An order of Keitel's OKW provided that escaped officers and non-working non-commissioned officers other than Americans and British were to be turned over to the SIPO and SD upon recapture. The SIPO and SD, upon instructions from their chief, would then transport the men to the Mauthausen concentration camp und... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 3,600 | 4,100 |
other occupied territories. (2926-PS) (8) Persecution of Minorities. Keitel's responsibility for the persecution of minorities in Germany appears from the fact that, with Hitler, Goering, and Lammers, he signed a decree on 7 October 1939 which provided that the harmful influence of foreigners must be eliminated from Ge... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 4,050 | 4,550 |
the southeast." A surprise attack on Czechoslovakia was considered possible (C-175). Through the late spring and summer of 1938 Case Green was revised and modified. The memoranda and correspondence are frequently signed or initialed by Keitel, and it is clear that he knew of Hitler's intention to use force against Czec... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol2): Part 4 - Wilhelm Keitel | 4,500 | 5,000 |
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