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the procurement of French funds in a simple practical form, and fits into the frame of the German-French financial transaction. Naturally, it amounts to a further considerable financial burden on French economy; but it does not appear in the form of an increase of the occupation costs. The idea to balance this internal... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 6,300 | 6,800 |
How large is the part administered by v. Lenz? How large is the part administered by Berlin? Who gives to Roges. To whom else does Berlin give allotments. 2. How far does Lenz know for that purposes the amounts are used which he allots to branches of the Wehrmacht, etc. 3. What are green checks? PART 34 OKW Berlin, 6 N... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 6,750 | 7,250 |
out the flat clearing process [Pauschalclearingverfahren] with France can be reached only by including the purchases made by the Roges "Raw Material Trading Company Ltd." [Rohstoffhandelsgesellschaft m k H] on the black market. Objections have been made hereto, because resale of the goods bought on the black market ["S... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 7,200 | 7,700 |
of French workers working in Germany ..... 1.5 " " f Special commissioner Rumania ..... 1.3 " " g Costs of building completions for directors of French powder factories ..... 0.2 " " Total: 1647 mill. RM Therefrom it appears that the decrease of reserves of occupation cost funds amounting to 3000 mill. RM on 15 January... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 7,650 | 8,150 |
for the French finances. The yearly French national income amounted to 432 billion francs for 1942. The daily per capita war expenses are at present in Germany 2.90 RM and thus 6 times as high as in France with 0.40 RM. 2. The danger point for the French finances lies in the fact that the French government has done not... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 8,100 | 8,600 |
German side has to do its share that nothing should happen in the further course which would enhance the inflationary tendencies in France. I have agreed with State Secretary Koerner that the Foreign Office and the Four Four Years' Plan should most closely follow further development in this respect and intervene as soo... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 8,550 | 9,050 |
subject, that the German government would appoint a plenipotentiary to the French government, whose mission would be to advise the French government. I declared myself ready to cooperate closely in the financial field as in all others, but I formally rejected the appointment of a financial adviser, as this would underm... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 9,000 | 9,500 |
of the French occupation cost payment, previously paid to Italy, because of the condition of the occupation cost and of the increased demand, which has been caused by the occupation of the Southern French area, which was up to now reserved for the Italian armed forces. I therefore request, to demand from the French gov... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 9,450 | 9,950 |
Delegation for Economic Affairs PART 46 Konzept/Ss No. 2318 Paris, 11 July 1944 1. To the Foreign Office Berlin Teletype-C7-(only from to in secret cipher) [In handwriting] "Citissime" No. 87 of 11 July 1944 after cabled order of 8 July No. 71. I ask for the consent of the Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs to enter ne... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 9,900 | 10,400 |
Finance Minister Cathala already expect such a demand. 3. Considering, however, the political necessities and the already mentioned difficult financial situation of France, and in appreciation of the fact that the French Government has kept its financial obligations for 4 years without interruption, I propose the follo... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 10,350 | 10,850 |
been used up in the meantime as you repeatedly had occasion to notice for yourself. By my exchange of notes with Minister Cathala on the future monthly advance payments of occupation costs of 19 and 23 June 1944 the necessarily resulting insolvencies could be overcome, however, the existing deficit could not be removed... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 10,800 | 11,300 |
frs. on 2 trucks of the Bank of France in another transport about the completion of which there is no report yet. Still greater were the difficulties of transport and protection for the transfer of 80 billion reserves in bills from Clermont-Ferrand to Dijon and Lyon, because there direct transport is being obstructed b... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 11,250 | 11,750 |
branches of the Bank of France: Belfort 698 million francs, Besancon 642, Epinal 853, Luneville 93, Nancy 1,411, Nevers 1,016, Saint Die 181, Vesoul 227. Furthermore, 2 billion francs in thousand-franc notes are in the vault of the Bank of France in Nancy or Epinal, which were brought via transport in the middle of Aug... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1741-PS :Negotiation within the German-French Economic Commission | 11,700 | 12,046 |
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be reconstructed or newly ordered is concerned, this likewise is also in the very first line to be decided according to the needs, provided by the exploitation of the agriculture and the mineral oil Economy for the German War Economy. For the Economic leadership in the occupied territories the main points are to be cle... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1743-PS :Guiding Principles for the Economic operations in the newly occupied Eastern territories, June 1941 | 450 | 950 |
to be placed on mineral oil. Under these measures, which do not serve the food management, all tasks connected with the production and shipment of mineral oil, will have first priority, by all means. For the execution of the decrees in the mineral oil field, especially to be issued for the Caucasus, the Continental Oil... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1743-PS :Guiding Principles for the Economic operations in the newly occupied Eastern territories, June 1941 | 900 | 1,400 |
into the Army zone and who are under the jurisdiction of the AOK's, also in case of need, economy commands advanced into the Army zone militarily under the jurisdiction of the AOK's. C. Organization of the Economy for the political Administration districts. Regulation will follow later by the Reichsmarschall. The execu... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1743-PS :Guiding Principles for the Economic operations in the newly occupied Eastern territories, June 1941 | 1,350 | 1,850 |
a. stocks of the gas, water, electricity and mine facilities b. gasoline and lubricants for farm and vital Industries c. stocks of the motor tractor stations. War-Booty, Services for pay, Army booty, prize [Page 19]. I. General. 1. Although according to the Hague Convention the entire movable property of the enemy coun... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1743-PS :Guiding Principles for the Economic operations in the newly occupied Eastern territories, June 1941 | 1,800 | 2,300 |
issued in 50, 20, 5, 2, 1 and 0.50 RM denominations. The Reichskreditkassen notes are legal tender along with the currency of the country. The ratio of the Reichsmark in relation to the currency of the Country will be fixed through decrees by the authorities in charge. The Reichskreditkassen notes serve as well the pur... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1743-PS :Guiding Principles for the Economic operations in the newly occupied Eastern territories, June 1941 | 2,250 | 2,750 |
closest co-operation with the Economy agencies. They have, notwithstanding the fact that they are under the jurisdiction of the Chief administration of the Reichskreditkassen, to bring in line their measures with the intentions of the Economy inspector with regard to the Money and Credit system. Foreign Trade and Excha... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1743-PS :Guiding Principles for the Economic operations in the newly occupied Eastern territories, June 1941 | 2,700 | 3,200 |
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The Bulgarian and the German general staff will take all measures in order to camouflage the preparation of the operations and to assure in this way the most favorable conditions for the execution of the German operations as planned. The representatives of the two general staffs consider it to be suitable to inform the... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1746-PS :Conference between Field Marshal List and Representatives of the Bulgarian General Staff (Agreement between Germany, Bulgaria and Rumania for attacking Greece and eventually Turkey). dated February 8, 1941 | 450 | 950 |
will also do its part to guarantee the protection of the two ports by providing forces there. [Page 4, Line 32-Page 5, Line 27:] 6. The supply of the German troops on their march through Bulgaria and during their operations against Greece or Turkey will be provided from their own German stocks. However, in order to rel... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1746-PS :Conference between Field Marshal List and Representatives of the Bulgarian General Staff (Agreement between Germany, Bulgaria and Rumania for attacking Greece and eventually Turkey). dated February 8, 1941 | 900 | 1,400 |
of the crossing of the border by the Germans 10 days ahead of time. Finis PART II Conference of Hitler and the German High Command on the situation in Yugoslavia. Dated March 27, 1941 [Page 1-Page 4, Line 13:] W F St Berlin, March 27, 1941 Top Secret 1st copy W F St 2nd copy L 3rd copy W Kr G Only for general officers ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1746-PS :Conference between Field Marshal List and Representatives of the Bulgarian General Staff (Agreement between Germany, Bulgaria and Rumania for attacking Greece and eventually Turkey). dated February 8, 1941 | 1,350 | 1,850 |
day, a message will still be addressed to the Duce. Politically, it is especially important that the blow against Yugoslavia is carried out with unmerciful harshness and that the military destruction is done in a lightning like undertaking. In this way, Turkey would become sufficiently frightened and the campaign again... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1746-PS :Conference between Field Marshal List and Representatives of the Bulgarian General Staff (Agreement between Germany, Bulgaria and Rumania for attacking Greece and eventually Turkey). dated February 8, 1941 | 1,800 | 2,300 |
on March 28, 1941 at 4 P. M. Only for general officers To be transmitted by officers only KW/W F St [Stamp] [several pencil marks] Tentative Plan for the coordination of the German and Italian operations against Yugoslavia. 1. In the event that the political development requires an armed intervention against Yugoslavia... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1746-PS :Conference between Field Marshal List and Representatives of the Bulgarian General Staff (Agreement between Germany, Bulgaria and Rumania for attacking Greece and eventually Turkey). dated February 8, 1941 | 2,250 | 2,750 |
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Dr. Frank 2. Preparations abroad The Foreign Office has accepted the task of contacting the prominent European people, with the exception of a few of the occupied territories in Europe, via its representatives abroad. The German representatives abroad have received several official instructions, according to which they... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1752-PS :Preparations already made for the International Congress, 15 June 1944 | 450 | 950 |
out the slowly rising anti-Semitic feeling in the countries of our opponents. It seems necessary that the feeling caused by enemy propaganda that National Socialism is retreating on all fronts, be reputed by this great anti-Jewish Congress. The invasion army is not fighting against the barbarian Germany of annihilation... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1752-PS :Preparations already made for the International Congress, 15 June 1944 | 900 | 1,208 |
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had been made illusory. We were of the opinion (particularly myself) that we should now act on our own initiative in this respect. I proposed to the Gauleiter that, in view of the great existing lack of houses, the best thing would be to put the Jews into a kind of internment camp. Then the houses would become free in ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1757-PS :Report of Goering's Commission for the investigation of the Aryanisations carried out in the Gau of Franconia between 9.11.38 and 9.2.39 and the irregularities connected therewith which have been established | 450 | 950 |
true. [P.70] Favoritism shown to third parties and irregularities during the Aryanization of properties. [P.72] Schoeller case. c. Gauamtsleiter Fritz Schoeller bought Grimmstrasse 3, Nurnberg by a contract of the 15th November 1938. The house has a nominal value of RM 43,300 and an exchange value of RM 50,000. The buy... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1757-PS :Report of Goering's Commission for the investigation of the Aryanisations carried out in the Gau of Franconia between 9.11.38 and 9.2.39 and the irregularities connected therewith which have been established | 900 | 1,400 |
estate of the Gauleiter on Lake Constance without ever having seen it, for a price of Reichsmark 240,000. It is noteworthy that the Gauleiter and people close to him had a very bad opinion of Consul Pfaller, but after the purchase of the estate the Gauleiter sent him a picture. In order to avoid the Gauleiter's appeari... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1757-PS :Report of Goering's Commission for the investigation of the Aryanisations carried out in the Gau of Franconia between 9.11.38 and 9.2.39 and the irregularities connected therewith which have been established | 1,350 | 1,850 |
significant. He declared that he was convinced that the Gauleiter would have him bumped off one of these days, as soon as he found out that Fink had told the truth to the investigating commission. [P. 161] According to reports of reliable witnesses, Gauleiter Streicher is in the habit of pointing out on the most varied... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1757-PS :Report of Goering's Commission for the investigation of the Aryanisations carried out in the Gau of Franconia between 9.11.38 and 9.2.39 and the irregularities connected therewith which have been established | 1,800 | 2,300 |
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were under guard. It was apparent with respect to others that an attempt was made to preserve secrecy. I recall in particular that the large anti-aircraft station near my house in the Gruenwald was built under secrecy, likewise a munitions dump burrowed in the hills of Wildpark near Potsdam was also built under secrecy... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 450 | 950 |
required the use of roads or paths along which I was riding. It was not considered wise to get too close to these operations, particularly if they were on an extensive scale. The Deutsche Jungvolk (boys from the ages of 6 to 14) was also the vehicle for military training. They were also in evidence throughout the count... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 900 | 1,400 |
German, formerly a member of Meile Printing Company of Chicago and a man strongly opposed to the Nazis. he had been an officer in the German army in the First World War; therefore he knew a large number of the officers of Reichswehr. Occasionally he gave in his house beer-evenings which a number of Reichswehr officers ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 1,350 | 1,850 |
program in the East, we shall have to go to war with you." During this conversation he made it clear to me that the program of the Nazis for expansion in the East was unalterably fixed and decided upon. It included the attack on Poland, the annexation of Austria, territorial expansion in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Rum... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 1,800 | 2,300 |
much longer delayed. He did not know the plans and details but he confirmed the information that I had from all sources, that Germany intended to strike in the East and that the war in the West depended on whether or not the Western powers would endeavor to intervene when the German war machine started moving. Of these... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 2,250 | 2,750 |
famous Gestapo [Geheimstaatpolizei], its first chief was Rudolf Diels, who was succeeded by Heinrich Himmler, in May, 1934. I knew well not only Diels but also Himmler, his second in command, Reinhard Heydrich and his administrative officer, Dr. Werner best. The organization at No. 8 was huge with over 1,000 persons em... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 2,700 | 3,200 |
in March, 1933, on the morning of the sixth, the accumulated passion blew off in wholesale attacks on the Communists, Jews, and those who were suspected of being either. Mobs of S.A. men roamed the streets, beating up, looting, and even killing persons. No American citizen, so far as I am aware, was killed, but a numbe... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 3,150 | 3,650 |
right, and especially not as a Jew." One of the men then proceeded to bind my hands and feet as closely and as painfully as possible. I still bear the marks of the bruises on my wrists. I was questioned about various English and French letters which had been found in my room and taken along with them and then I was lef... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 3,600 | 4,100 |
the life out of me and "You can walk back afterwards." I replied that I hoped I would be able to walk. This was probably about eight o'clock and we were entirely alone as nobody had followed us. I took off my coat myself and remarked "If one can't help oneself, one may as well make the best of it." One of them threw my... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 4,050 | 4,550 |
direction of the S.A., and that there were S.A. [Sturm-Abteilung] in the police itself. Thereupon I departed Another American, Mrs. Jean Klauber, made an affidavit which stated: That on the night of Friday, March 10, 1933, she and her husband had retired for the night when they were awakened by a prolonged ringing of t... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 4,500 | 5,000 |
Mrs. Krauber then found it and handed it over. Then the intruders returned to the unconscious Mr. Klauber, saying "He hasn't had enough yet," and beat him further. Then they left, saying "We are not yet finished," and just as they departed, one of them said to Mrs. Klauber "Why did you marry a Jew? I hate them" and str... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 4,950 | 5,450 |
with the Nazis, even though they were reduced to the status of second or third class citizens. In 1935, however, the pressure on them began to increase and they began to be excluded completely from certain civil activities. The terrorism was continued all the time to some degree; but the enforcement of the new decrees ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 5,400 | 5,900 |
a common outward sign that they had been at Saxonhausen. The Gestapo authorities with whom I spoke on my frequent, and often daily visits to the Gestapo headquarters did not hesitate to state that they regarded Communists in particular as subversive and as an element dangerous to the State, and that it was necessary to... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 5,850 | 6,350 |
leader of the Communists in the Reichstag, was, as is well known, kept during the Hitler regime in perpetual confinement. His ultimate fate has never been revealed. On another occasion I was given considerable information by a high official of the Gestapo as to the policy of the Nazis with respect to the Jews. I had ha... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 6,300 | 6,800 |
November 8, 1938, Garbaty applied for a passport and received one only after paying a bribe of 500,000 marks to the corrupt Count Heldorf, Chief of Police in Berlin, and enough other fines to equal the million marks that he had received for his factory. He left Germany with nothing, except that earlier, by bribing the ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 6,750 | 7,250 |
operates a restaurant in those premises. He has been in arrears in his rent for about a year. Since the first of February of this year, that is, since the new Government came into power, he has refused to pay his rent. I gave instructions to the Sheriff to have him put out. Yesterday two uniformed men came to my office... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 7,200 | 7,700 |
letter to the tenant Zink, stating that the order of eviction was called off. I hesitated to sign and they drew their revolvers on me, and my wife in terror fell to her knees, and then I signed. I asked if they had credentials, and they pointed to the "Hakenkreuz" on their sleeves and said that was their credentials. T... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1759-PS :Deposition of Raymond H. Geist, 28 August 1945 | 7,650 | 8,150 |
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In consequence of this responsibility I had to see frequently almost all of the high ranking members of the German Government with the exception of Hitler and a very large number of officials below the rank of Minister. The nature of my duties was such that a considerable portion of my days had to be spent in visits on... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 450 | 950 |
of, the following: 1. Hermann Goering 2. General Milch 3. Hjalmar Schacht 4. Hans Frank 5. Wilhelm Frick 6. Count Schwerin von Krosigk 7. Joseph Goebbels 8. Richard Walther Darre 9. Robert Ley 10. Hans Heinrich Lammers 11. Otto Meissner 12. Franz von Papen 13. Walther Funk 14. General Wilhelm Keitel 15. Admiral Eric vo... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 900 | 1,400 |
told by both high and secondary Government officials in Germany that incorporation of Austria into Germany was a political and economic necessity and that this incorporation was going to be accomplished "by whatever means were necessary". Although I cannot assign definite times and places, I am sure that at various tim... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 1,350 | 1,850 |
during that period I was told by high Nazi officials in conversation with them that these waves of terror were being instigated and directed by them. I found no concealment in my conversations with high Nazi officials of the fact that they were responsible for these activities in Austria. These admissions were entirely... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 1,800 | 2,300 |
of these bomb fragments myself, I recall specifically having been told by high Austrian authorities that they had been them and that there was no doubt as to the origin of the bombs. A further proof that these outrages were directed from Germany, although in most cases the bombs were actually planted by Austrian Nazis,... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 2,250 | 2,750 |
crimes, now punishable by death, include malicious acts against public order, and damage to the railway, telegraph, telephone and wireless services of the State. The new development in the recent outrages was that many of the acts were directed against the property of the Roman catholic Church, which in the eyes of the... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 2,700 | 3,200 |
attempted bomb attack on the post office in Bregenz, the capital of the Province of Vorarlberg, the police seized a supply of explosives bearing labels of "Sprengstoffwerke Kloster Lechfeld, G.m.b.H.", "Dynamit A.G. Hamburg, Alfred Nobel & Co.", and "Fabrik Wurzendorf", explosive factories domiciled in Germany. Officia... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 3,150 | 3,650 |
threat of violent action against Austria. It was without any question sanctioned by the Nazi Government of Germany as it could otherwise not have existed, and it was armed by them. It was made up of Austrian Nazis who had fled from Austria after committing various crimes in Austria and by Austrians in Germany who were ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 3,600 | 4,100 |
my information that Dr. Rieth was in close touch and constant touch with the Nazi agents in Austria; these agents being both German and Austrian. Dr. Rieth could not have been unfamiliar with the Putsch and the details in connection therewith. I recall, too, very definitely from my conversations with the highest offici... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 4,050 | 4,550 |
knowledge at that time, proved. Early in January, the Austrian Foreign Minister, Berger-Waldenegg, furnished me a document which I considered accurate in all respects and which stated: "The German Minister here, von Papen, on the occasion of his last visit to Berlin, was received three times by Chancellor Hitler for fa... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 4,500 | 5,000 |
visit the more westerly Austrian Alps sections and to go to fixed towns and live in specified hotels or inns." This policy of the Nazis was dictated solely by considerations of expediency. The basic aim of achieving Anschluss remained wholly unchanged. The brutal murder of Dollfuss, the Austrian Chancellor, and the unq... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 4,950 | 5,450 |
calling on him in the German Legation, that I had to listen to what he had to say and of course I was prepared to hear what he had to say although I already knew what his instructions were. I was nevertheless shocked to have him speak so baldly to me and when he finished I got up and told him how shocked I was to hear ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 5,400 | 5,900 |
district to prepare lists of all those persons who are known to actively support the present Government and who are prepared closely to cooperate with it. "When the next action against the Government takes place these persons are to be proceeded against just as brutally as against all those other persons, without disti... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 5,850 | 6,350 |
the course of a conversation with von Papen, the latter had remarked "Yes, you have your French and English friends now and you can have your independence a little longer". The Foreign Minister, of course, told me this remark in German but the foregoing is an accurate translation. The Foreign Minister told me that he h... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 6,300 | 6,800 |
full sovereignty of the Federal State of Austria.1 "2. Each of these two Governments shall regard the internal political conditions of the other country, including the question of Austrian National-Socialism, as a domestic concern of that country, upon which it will exert neither direct nor indirect influence: "3. The ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 6,750 | 7,250 |
being expressed with regard to conversations which Chancellor Schuschnigg was reported as having with the "moderate Nazis", Reinthaller and Riehl. I then reported as follows: "It is obvious, however, that in view of certain well known facts, these conversations will be followed with interest. A major consideration whic... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 7,200 | 7,700 |
the government, there is reason for the gravest concern, not only so far as the internal situation in Austria is concerned, but this might become the focal point of disturbance without the country" The sequel of the agreement was the only one which could have been expected in view of all the facts and previous recorded... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 7,650 | 8,150 |
soon after July 11 as July 29, 1936, when the Olympic Torch was carried through the streets of Vienna, there were violent Nazi disorders. From then on, and until austrian sovereignty was destroyed, there were constant arrests and trials of persons accused of distributing illegal literature or staging illegal demonstrat... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 8,100 | 8,600 |
to devise a means whereby the "Nationalists" could be incorporated into the Patriotic Front. Dr. Seyss-Inquart himself was a prominent Vienna Lawyer, who had long been an intimate personal friend of Chancellor Schuschnigg. The Chancellor himself told me on various occasions that Dr. Seyss-Inquart had frequently attempt... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 8,550 | 9,050 |
do it and when he considered it opportune. The work of disintegration, set forth in this statement, had had its effect. Early in 1938, apparently satisfied that England and France would not move and knowing that Italy could not and would not oppose him, Hitler struck the final blow at Austria's independence, bringing t... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1760-PS :Deposition of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945 | 9,000 | 9,287 |
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b. Attention to the under secretary of state von Jagwitz, or his representative c. Attention for the President Kehrl, or his representative d. Attention to the Ministerial Councillor Dr. Drexl, or his representative e. Attention of the Chief Councillor of government Dr. Goetze, or his representative 13. The Main Office... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 450 | 950 |
market since the 1 July 1942. 1. General 2. The organization created by the plenipotentiary for special missions. 3. Scope of the previous purchases (per 30 Nov. 1942). III. The further development B. Obtaining of harbor installations and machines from shut down plants. I. Harbor installations II. Machines C. Christmas... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 900 | 1,400 |
northern France and the Reichscommissar for the occupied territories of the Netherlands therefore took measures during the course of the year 1941 to bring this development to a halt. However, in this respect the lever was not-at any rate not primarily-inserted at the price side because this promised only little succes... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 1,350 | 1,850 |
black market is not a phenomenon evoked through the activity of the plenipotentiary for special missions or other departments, but-as is shown under I-has developed inevitably from the economic situation of the market and will exist and have to be exploited in the German interest as long as no way has been found to bre... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 1,800 | 2,300 |
particular in unoccupied France-by the English or-evidently through British instigation-from neutral sources, as for instance the Portuguese which do not serve any other purpose than that of depriving Germany of the merchandise. The consequence of such sudden cessation of purchases through the organization of the pleni... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 2,250 | 2,750 |
commissioning of the plenipotentiary for special missions, the prices on the black markets rose always further,-for the most part a consequence of the mutual competition of the individual German buyers-it has since been possible, to stabilize the prices of most goods, and this in spite of the fact that the general leve... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 2,700 | 3,200 |
was necessary, because the black marketeers by experience want to sell for the most part only to certain departments, with which they have cooperated before and because they refuse to cooperate with other buyers whom they did not know previously; it had to be taken care, however, that none of the existing sources dried... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 3,150 | 3,650 |
which there are 5,053,000 kg raw hides, 3,390,000 square feet of finished leather, 1,783,000 pieces of hides, chamois, etc., 801,000 pairs of shoes, and 694,000 kg leather for soles and other shoe soling articles. Furthermore was bought: industrial oils and fats (1,330 tons) food oils and fats (346 tons) wool household... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 3,600 | 4,100 |
was bought (up to 30/11/1942): Altogether for RM 840,382,893.00 of which metals RM 174,982,697.00 textiles RM 318,013,354.00 leather, skins and hides RM 82,265,070.00 The figures mentioned above comprise roughly about the same period of time (1/7/ - 30/11, i.e., five months) as the purchasing action of the military com... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 4,050 | 4,550 |
of the enterprise. Often the capacity of the enterprise is exploited only incompletely so that the entrepreneur, even if it is only in order to avoid a shut-down, turns to procurement of raw materials illegally in order to produce beyond his quota, that is, illegally. Previously the purchases in unoccupied France which... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 4,500 | 5,000 |
result in the issue of such a decree for France also in cooperation with the military commander. Most important and promising of success for the beginning appears the measure outlined in 2 whereby the initial effort should be made toward commerce and there again first toward retail business. As soon as a number of drac... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 4,950 | 5,450 |
So far installations of that kind could already be provided for Oslo and for Hamburg; further transactions are in the process of being executed. II. Machines. Another task of the plenipotentiary for special missions is the seizure of machines from closed down plants. It is certain that large potentialities, particularl... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 5,400 | 5,900 |
been made to the commissioner for the four-year plan on the other fields of activity of the plenipotentiary for special missions insofar as the providing of additional shipping space for war important purposes is concerned. A report on the special imports by way of blockade running is anticipated. On the orders issued ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1765-PS :Report of the plenipotentiary for special missions, 15 January 1943 | 5,850 | 6,060 |
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Article 84 of the Factory Council Law is not applicable if the dismissed is suspected of an unfriendly attitude towards the State. The worker can appeal within a week to the authority declared competent according to Chapter I, Article 2. That authority decides, after hearing all those concerned, whether the suspicions ... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1770-PS :Law concerning Factory Representative Councils and Economic Organizations of 4 April 1933 | 450 | 870 |
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determined later on whether and to what extent an indemnification can be granted to persons, especially to rightful foreign claimants, for legal losses suffered through the action. Article 3-The seizure and administration of the property mentioned in Article 1 will be executed until further notice on the basis of the r... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1773-PS :On the Seizure and Redistribution of Polish Valuables | 450 | 950 |
on the basis of Article 2 of this regulation as public art property. He also will decide on the eventual necessary exceptions. Article 5-1. He will be punished with imprisonment 1. Who undertakes to conceal, sell or remove objects of art from the General Gouvernement. 2. Who refuses or else gives incorrect or incomplet... | Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 1773-PS :On the Seizure and Redistribution of Polish Valuables | 900 | 1,400 |
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