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which are the fundamentals for the preparedness of National Socialists, is one of the huge tasks of the SA. "All that you are, you are through me; and all that I am, I am through you alone". These words of the Fuehrer, spoken to his SA on the 30th of January 1936, are a recognition as well as an obligation. It is a sho...
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only because it emanates from the Folk and is a part of the Folk. II. ORGANIZATION The Branches of the SA The Fuehrer himself has designated the SA as the guarantor of the National Socialist Movement and the National Socialist Revolution. The SA is the political soldiery. In this concept "political soldiery", which was...
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of special or technical units. Therefore, the following special branches were established: signal, engineer, mounted, naval, bicycle, and sanitary units. Local considerations and geographical situations determine their incorporation into companies and battalions and govern the consideration of subordinate positions. TH...
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latter, on the basis of the SA sports badges must prepare the fighting training of the bodies of all Germans capable of bearing arms and as preparation therefor must organize the execution of corporal exercises (basic physical training) and sports performances, so that the widest stratum of the population is laid hold ...
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training hold good for the group schools, too, which are subordinate to the same office. The work is performed in close understanding with the leader of the group in whose territory the school lies, because he himself possesses the best possibility of choosing his future officers. This division, which is immediately su...
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With this conviction they fight for accomplishment of the directions and orders which emanate from the main office for Folk health and from the Reich Surgeon. In the foremost Place are the sanitation men of the SA who use themselves for that great goal: Purity of blood and Purity of Race. THE MAIN OFFICE FOR PERSONAL A...
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Wyk in foehr, Hohenlychen, or Trillup bie Hamburg. The needy are permitted support, and, in fact, in an understanding with the Reich treasurer, the means of the Adolf Hitler Thanks and the Adolf Hitler Foundation are placed at this office's disposal. Above all, however, this office interests itself in those who were in...
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and settlement office. The salary of SA officers and men who are on the staffs which are essential to the main offices is regulated uniformly on the basis of an office plan. It is composed of base pay, quarters allowance, and increase for marriage and children. Considering it from the political standpoint of population...
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the Reich Sports fuehrer von Tschammer und Osten. By this appointment the guarantee is given that, in comradely cooperation with the Reichsbund for physical training, the tasks set by the Fuehrer in respect to the military fitness of the entire nation and the formation of a Folk will be solved by physical training. The...
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valuable substance. SPECIAL UNITS OF THE SA Engineers and Signal SA In the same measure that the little Shocktroop of the National Socialist Idea grew up into an organization in whose hands the Fuehrer has laid the whole physical and ideological education of our people, so in the same measure the sphere of the tasks of...
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in these technical units of the SA a trained crew whose capabilities and knowledge are not the last things of extraordinary value in the service for defense of the country. On one side the young SA man, who enters the Army from his branch, comes prepared with a multitude of prerequisites which facilitate and speed up h...
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and organization. At present the S.A. cavalry has at its disposition 101 cavalry regiments in whose schools, year in and year out, young Germans who are obligated for service receive the training which fits them for entrance into a section of troops which is of their own choosing. The NSKK has discovered, by creation o...
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speedy aid. Be it hot weather or frost, mischance or sudden sickness, the "Sani-men" are at their post. Highest demands, however, are placed on them if, at time of catastrophe medical assistance is not sufficient and the life of many depends upon the success of appropriate initial treatment. Then the S.A. sanitation me...
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for the acceptance of future members. Out of the apparent forms of political life developed by the present emulating in their behavior the proven example of the old S.A., the Feldlherrnhalle regiment professes itself to the concept of a soldierly life. It unites in its ranks young, consciously political individuals who...
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Zehlendorf. III. PROSPECTUS The Law of Willingness to Volunteer. In the beginning of the fight there was the Party and the S.A. The goal, tasks and changing requirements of the fight have led to the establishment of the branches of the Party out of the great collecting basin of the S.A. The strong impulses which emanat...
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the idea, and its soldierly, combatant attitude will create and preserve in the German people that physical fitness and armed preparedness which the Fuehrer and the Reich need and without which a people cannot live. Great achievements are only produced with unheard of personal application based upon voluntary will. And...
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1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 (3 month) Total Arrivals 2,912 20,122 9,553 2,525 5,890 14,111 42,177 97,866 43,823 238,980 Deceased 48 771 1,235 1,772 1,522 2,898 3,516 8,644 13,056 33,462 It is self-evident that under normal living conditions only a minor fraction of these 33,462 persons would have died. Most of them h...
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by gas at the place of their destination. It is probable that the SS had already at that time perfected its asphyxiation chambers and tested them. On 2, 11 and 12 March 1942 further convoys followed containing 285 prisoners, exclusively Jews. Beginning Fall 1942 increasingly larger mass transports and individual transp...
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Justice Division for "special treatment", which in official language meant, for execution. Unfortunately the SS had already destroyed on 1 and 2 April 1945 all the relating documents therefore no figures of any kind can be quoted. Based on the observations of the prisoners it would seem that approximately 7,000 persons...
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records would announce over the loudspeaker, "If another Jew hangs himself, will he kindly stick a piece of paper with his name on it in his pocket, so that one knows who he is." Where the Jews came from is given in the survey in Table 3. Table 3 Place of Origin Giessen Mainz Kassel Breslau Dresden Magdeburg Chemnitz L...
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snipers and other Poles coming from those parts of Poland which belonged to Germany before 1918. On 15 October 1939 and 16 October no less than 1,000 and 1,098 Poles arrived and were put in tents under the most primitive and barbaric conditions on the half-finished roll call grounds, where they received only half of th...
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about the same and averaged in round numbers about 7,500 prisoners. (Hitler had promised a very generous pardon decree for his 50th birthday. It consisted in discharging in round figures 2,300 mostly "asocial" prisoners. Later delayed pardon act reduced the camp strength from 6,363 on 1 May 1939 to a low figure of 5,37...
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were feared and they did not want to give the impression that the prisoners of war had been turned over to a concentration camp. Nevertheless they were subjected to the same strict camp discipline as the other prisoners and in the first months especially the quality of their food was considerably inferior. They were co...
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many undisciplined and politically undesirable "elements" were to be found among them, which threatened to endanger peace and order. They were harshly treated and locked up for minor infraction in the punishment and concentration camps for "commitment to labor", which in other words meant life-long slavery. No trouble ...
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camp strength and the number of the addition for the 12 months from 1 June 1942 to 31 May 1943 are given. Table 5 Month Camp strength beg. of month Additions during month Special Transport June '42 7,601 1,019 On 5 July-300 invalids July '42 8,000 1,996 and 51 clergymen to Dachau. Aug. '42 8,849 1,715 Sept. '42 9,886 1...
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to Paris and negotiated with Laval for the delivery of forced labor. This development reflected itself in the KL Buchenwald by deliveries of French prisoners of war from the German concentration camp in Compiegne. The poetical talents of the German Security Service and its sneering attitude toward these victims express...
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as "Transport Jews", and no one took the trouble anymore to review their records. That work was left to the concentration camps to which the individuals were finally committed. The SS regarded the labor commitment as their first duty, and the prisoners engaged with the reception of the additions were faced with the gre...
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to Nazism. The efforts of the SS, however, were in vain. Not one volunteered for the SS. Therefore 117 of them were first sent to a SS camp on 7 July 1944 and the rest of them on 23 October 1944, where they had to do heavy work on the field fortifications. When the Front moved closer they were evacuated from the SS cam...
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hope that the Allied air power would not bomb the plants out of consideration for their countrymen. Everything in connection with the production was treated as a top-secret. prisoners who were in the respective headquarters were designated as "secret carriers." In so far as it concerned the Reich nationals and the Czec...
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would only have meant trouble and work. In addition, regulations from the Reich Security Main Office forbade sending certain prisoners with the transports to assure a decree of isolation. Except for a few individual cases, this regulation applied in particular to the half-Jews. On orders of the Reich security Main Offi...
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Russians Auschwitz In this table transports of less 200 prisoners from other camps and transports which went directly to the outside headquarters without passing through the main camp, are not listed. The greater number of these additions, as well as the afore mentioned additions from the East and West proceeded quickl...
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a single prisoner. The SS had not provided air raid shelters for the prisoners, in fact they did not even allow the prisoners to go into the camp during an airraid alarm. The prisoners were compelled to remain in the workshops or in their immediate vicinity. Bomb proof shelters or trenches for protection against bomb f...
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soon found other ways and means to increase the number of the slaves of the SS by new additions. In November 1944 the first prisoners of a new category arrived which was termed "Zwischenhaft II" (intermediate custody II). This category included members of the Wehrmacht who had been condemned by the military courts to s...
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When the auxiliary headquarters "Dora" was declared an independent concentration camp in October 1944, the construction work had been completed and the production of V-weapons was running at full speed. In connection therewith the demand for unskilled labor had diminished a little. The establishment of a new and even m...
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dead. The SS management did not send the next transport of "shredded" workers to Buchenwald but to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where their final liquidation in the remoteness of the Lueneburger Heide, presumably, could be carried out less openly and more expeditiously. The tragic end of the exterior headquart...
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was a maddening increase in arrivals and a horrible, almost inconceivable increase of unnecessary suffering and senseless sacrifices. The offensive on the Vistula River began 13 January 1945. Within a short time the Red Army reached a menacing position close to the concentration camp Auschwitz, where there must have be...
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Vienna 25 Dec. '44 1,913 Hungarian Jews 17 Jan. '45 263 Various Cologne and Aix-la-Chapelle. 17 Jan. '45 2,740 Polish Jews Tschenstochau. 20 Jan. '45 1,446 Polish Jews Tschenstochau. 22 Jan. '45 2,224 Jews diff.nations Auschwitz. 23 Jan. '45 917 Jews diff. nations Auschwitz. 26 Jan. '45 3,987 Various Auschwitz. 3 Febr....
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10,188 Nov. '38 10,098 2,181 18,105 Dec. '38 185 7,262 11,028 Total 20,122 771 11,655 Jan. '39 184 1,727 9,485 Febr. '39 113 949 8,649 Mar. '39 45 30 8,664 Apr. '39 13 2,314 6,363 May '39 20 713 5,670 June '39 103 250 5,523 July '39 166 297 5,392 Aug. '39 155 165 5,392 Sept. '39 3,314 62 8,634 Oct. '39 5,373 1,232 12,7...
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55,473 Nov. '44 10,305 698 5,207 612 6,517 59,261 Dec. '44 12,555 2,076 5,579 1,113 8,768 63,048 Total 97,867 6,328 57,166 8,644 72,138 Jan. '45 24,197 190 4,756 2,002 6,948 80,297 Febr. '45 13,066 257 1,351 5,523 7,131 86,232 Mar. '45 6,560 488 6,337 5,531 12,356 80,436 Total 43,823 935 12,444 13,056 26,435 TOTAL 1937...
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June 10,322 1,575 11,897 873 1,903 4,080 243 6,899 July 25,716 31,970 31,970 907 4,340 8,536 477 12,260 Aug. 25,407 28,149 28,149 581 2,950 12,733 99 16,363 Sept. 16,763 6,438 23,201 652 6,805 22,598 144 30,199 Oct. 13,873 5,345 19,218 1,089 6,334 11,858 5,945 25,235 Nov. 17,780 4,565 22,345 809 5,514 10,805 2,350 19,4...
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listed is hereto attached as an Exhibit-the number of which is indicated immediately following the witness' name. As a further aid, the name of each camp in the chain at which the said Exhibit was prepared is listed alongside the name of the witness: c. Other Exhibits: Description (a) (Exhibit 4 is a report by an Inter...
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the systemic decimation of these prisoners originated in Berlin under the direct orders of SS Fuehrer Heinrich Himmler (see Exhibit 4). d. American forces liberated this camp on 5 May 1945 and this Investigator-Examiner and his team commenced this investigation on 6 May 1945. e. The victims of the Mauthausen Chain of c...
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Giesler, Pelzer, and other names in Exhibit 2 are but the arch criminals. However, although direct evidence is not established against all the members of the SS guards in this disreputable Chain, the inescapable presumption is that all of them are prima facie guilty of these mass murders and the burden of proof is upon...
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many as 20,000 prisoners at one time, but however, Gunskirchen, like Steyr and Lenzing and the Linz Group (Exhibit 22), and even Ebensee, were not equipped for Mass Murder (Extermination), like Mauthausen and the Gusens, and when deaths were "required" other than through starving, beatings, exposure, or lack of hygieni...
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for RL/LV. I. 2861/39 g. The Reich Traffic Minister RL/W 10. 2212/38 secret state matter Berlin, W8, Wilhelmstrasse 80, the 7th October 1938 47 and 3 copies Examination Nr. 49 To the following Reich and State authorities from whom have been ordered (a) deputies for water ways, (b) deputies for the local traffic, (c) de...
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can transmit their right of issuing directives to subordinate officers down to the village counselor. par. 3 (1) With the declaration of the state of defense the plenipotentiaries for the Reich administration (GBV) named by the leader and Reich chancellor takes over the uniform leadership of the non-military administra...
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minister for the sue and distribution of the complete communication connections to the armed forces and the other agencies. (3) The Reich transportation minister must comply, with the declaration of the state of defense, with the demands of the GBW according to the directions given to him by the OKW for the use of the ...
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the chief plenipotentiary for economics, the reich minister of foreign affairs, the Reich minister of interior, the Reich finance minister, the reich minister for popular enlightenment and propaganda, the president of the Reich bank directory. The other Reich ministers and the Reich offices directly subordinate to the ...
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the framework of these directives, already bound for the preparation of the Reich defense to the directions of the GBW, the Reich transporation minister to his demands according to paragraph 5 (3). IV. Final directions par. 15 Penal Directions. Whoever acts against the orders of a decree promulgated on the basis of thi...
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to doubt my trustworthiness. I have never paid attention to such things because I am satisfied with the opinion which the Fuehrer and the men close to him have of me. [Seyss-Inquart] Source: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality Washington...
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native population for the fight against Bolshevism. B. Wrong ways chosen for the fulfillment of these tasks. The German Administration in the Government General has failed by a wide margin in achieving the tasks listed under A. Although, in the year of 1942, one succeeded in meeting the delivery quota of agrarian produ...
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million metric tons were demanded, only 1.2 million metric tons of bread grain could be taken hold of, of which 690,000 m.t. were delivered to the Reich and the Armed Forces, so that for roughly 16 million natives only 510,000 m.t. were left. Accordingly, the weekly bread rations for the normal consumer had to be cut d...
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is given a free hand to do what he wants, in the unrestricted play of forces. These trustees very often make use of former Polish and Jewish owners of enterprises as agents empowered to sign in their names. These trustees make tremendous profits in clandestine trading, tolerated by the Government, and make them within ...
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led into the right channels based on a foundation of a clear-cut and well-organized administration and management. Only such a foundation permits that the native population may be handled strictly if necessary, even severely. On the other hand, it can be dealt with in a big-hearted manner and may be granted certain lib...
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Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2222-PS : Report of investigation of alleged War Crime, 25 May 1945
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Bleicherode Quedlinburg Dora Regenstein Ellrich Rossla Gross Werther Rottleberode Harzungen Sollstedt Hohlstedt Sonderhausen Ilfeld Tettenborn Ilsenburg Trautenstein Kelbra Walkenried Klein Bodungen Wickerode Kleissingen Wieda Mackenrode Wolffleben Nixei The camps were guarded by SS troops (Exhibit A-1), and SS troop h...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2222-PS : Report of investigation of alleged War Crime, 25 May 1945
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(Exhibits MM, UU, & JJJ). During the period of construction of the camp at Dora no housing facilities were present. Prisoners for three months were required to sleep in the tunnels in which they worked. Many of them died from respiratory diseases contracted in the damp tunnels, and others died of heart ailments due to ...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2222-PS : Report of investigation of alleged War Crime, 25 May 1945
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TT). One instance of a prisoner's failure to tip his hat to an SS man was sufficient justification for his being beaten (Exhibit V). Executions were often performed without apparent trial under the shallow guise of the condemned man having been a saboteur. 75 prisoners were hanged on 10 March 1945 at Dora (Exhibit K). ...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2222-PS : Report of investigation of alleged War Crime, 25 May 1945
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Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 2224-PS Previo...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2224-PS : 'The End of the Marxist Class Struggle' and other NSK publications, 2 May 1933
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German Trade union League] and of the AFA [General Independent Employees' Federation]. New German labor leaders have replaced senile ward-Heelers [verkalkte Bonzen]. The proven pioneers of the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization [NSBO], who have fought to the limit for the rights of German labor from the begin...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2224-PS : 'The End of the Marxist Class Struggle' and other NSK publications, 2 May 1933
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The united front of German workers will be formed there. Adolf Hitler will be asked to assume the position of Honorary Patron. THE ACTION COMMITTEE WITH ADOLF HITLER NSK. On Tuesday noon, at about two o'clock, the gentlemen of the Action Committee for the Protection of German Labor visited the Reich Chancellery under t...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2224-PS : 'The End of the Marxist Class Struggle' and other NSK publications, 2 May 1933
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Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 2225-PS Previo...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2225-PS : 'The Front of German Workers has been Erected!', an NSK publication, 3 May 1933
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Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 2226-PS Previo...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2226-PS : 'The Labor Front Stands!', an NSK publication, 4 May 1933
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Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 2228-PS Previo...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2228-PS : Order issued by the German Labor Front, 26 June 1933
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Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 2229-PS Previo...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2229-PS : 'The Reich Youth Leader at Work,' an NSK publication, 22 June 1933
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residence, and telephone number (if applicable); 3. information relative to person authorized to represent the society; 4. office of the society (telephone); 5. banking and postal checking accounts of the society, with indication who is authorized to sign for the society there; 6. accurate membership figures with indic...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2229-PS : 'The Reich Youth Leader at Work,' an NSK publication, 22 June 1933
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Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 2230-PS Previo...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2230-PS : Agreement entered into between the Reich Leader of the German Labor Front, Party member Dr. Ley, and the Chief of Staff of the Storm Troops [SA], Viktor Lutze, with regard to the factory troops [Werkscharen], October 1936
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headquarters of Storm Troop Groups, respectively Brigades, and of Standards. They are to be merged with the previous Special Sections for Social Work at Storm Troop Bureaus. The District respectively County Factory Troop Leaders are in charge of this Special Section. Simultaneously these Storm Troop leaders are to be c...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2230-PS : Agreement entered into between the Reich Leader of the German Labor Front, Party member Dr. Ley, and the Chief of Staff of the Storm Troops [SA], Viktor Lutze, with regard to the factory troops [Werkscharen], October 1936
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Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2231-PS :Die Reichskanzleiby Hermann von Stutterheim [Pages 19-34]
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Reich Cabinet. The same applied to administrative measures, political resolutions and legal decisions. Later, this situation also gained its legal semblance by the duty of obedience of the Reich Ministerate to the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor. This occurred at the time of the Reich Law of 16th October 1934, on the oath...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2231-PS :Die Reichskanzleiby Hermann von Stutterheim [Pages 19-34]
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might lack the required authority if they were not issued as laws or Fuehrer Edicts. Anyone who has a certain amount of experience in the sphere of administration knows how extraordinarily difficult it is to gauge what retrospective effects interference with the traditional and established administrative system will ha...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2231-PS :Die Reichskanzleiby Hermann von Stutterheim [Pages 19-34]
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and, at the same time, of concerning himself in the preliminary work of legislation. It falls to him in particular to see whether and in what form any direct interference is to be recommended to the Fuehrer in as much as he must in any case be informed of occurrences in public life. As they are so numerous, it is almos...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2231-PS :Die Reichskanzleiby Hermann von Stutterheim [Pages 19-34]
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which the Secret Cabinet Council has to deal. This is purely a deliberating body which is not called on or empowered to make orders or measures by itself. The special conditions of the war, especially the need to change the legal position and to meet the fast-arising wartime requirements however, made it vital to disem...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2231-PS :Die Reichskanzleiby Hermann von Stutterheim [Pages 19-34]
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decree) dated 8th September 1939 (Reich Law Gazette I p 1754), Decree on the concession of delayed payment in legal disputes dated 7th October 1939 (Reich Law Gazette I p 2004), Decree on the treatment of enemy capital dated 15th January 1940 (Reich Law Gazette I p 191). This short list of the most important Cabinet Co...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2231-PS :Die Reichskanzleiby Hermann von Stutterheim [Pages 19-34]
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differences of opinion. These Ministerial Conferences under the chairmanship of the Reich Chanceller, took place before the assumption of power. Apart from exceptional occasions, this no longer occurs. Summonses to Ministerial Conferences are sent out by the Chief of the Reich Chancellery at the request of one or more ...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2231-PS :Die Reichskanzleiby Hermann von Stutterheim [Pages 19-34]
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of the Reich Chancellery who, as we know, directs the affairs of the Cabinet Council plays a similar part in the work of the Cabinet Council for the defence of the Reich in issuing decrees which, as mentioned above, have the authority of laws, as he does with the cabinet laws. It must be noted, that the peculiarity in ...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2231-PS :Die Reichskanzleiby Hermann von Stutterheim [Pages 19-34]
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Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2232-PS : Excerpts from Frank's administrative policy
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complete catalogue of "attempts dangerous to the State" can never be drawn up because it can never be foreseen what may endanger leadership and people sometime in the future. National Socialist recognition of threatening danger and National Socialist knowledge of responsibility will understand and fulfill the duties of...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2232-PS : Excerpts from Frank's administrative policy
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matters of the Secret State Police are not subject to the check of the administrative courts." IN its decision of 2 May 1935 (III C 43/35) the Prussian High Court of Administration had already come to the same conclusion, before the decree of 10 February 1936 was issued, by reason of the legal situation in Prussia. Als...
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Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2233-A-PS - 2233-CC-PS : Excerpts from Frank's diary
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18 would also be desirable. One should not neglect the danger that particularly the youth of this age group in high schools could become a source of national resistance. Governor General Reich Minister Dr. Frank orders the preparation of a supplementary decree, according to which the compulsory labor was to be extended...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2233-A-PS - 2233-CC-PS : Excerpts from Frank's diary
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the Reich will be impaired. As an extra allowance for the unemployment pay the Reich Ministry for labor has held out the prospect of an additional sum of 3 million Reichmarks a month. [Pages 183-184] March 7th, 1940 Citadel of Cracow 1645 Conference with SS Brigadier General Schreckenbach 1650 Attache Dr. Albers is int...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2233-A-PS - 2233-CC-PS : Excerpts from Frank's diary
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furthermore, the necessary quantities of soap had been provided. 5,000 sets of underwear and linen, 32,000 Kg. flour, 4,000 Kg. of beef and of pork and other merchandise had been distributed. The Governor-General ordered that the exact figures should be published in the press. Now, as before, he thinks that the soup gi...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2233-A-PS - 2233-CC-PS : Excerpts from Frank's diary
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He gathered from this conversation that a great deal was said about the treatment of the churches and apparently it was attempted to push many things off into the government general, for which it was not at all responsible. Ambassador v. Wuehlisch thinks it worth while that those and similar questions be discussed in B...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2233-A-PS - 2233-CC-PS : Excerpts from Frank's diary
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On account of the snowfall, the passenger cars could not be used, and by using field sleighs, the recruiters could have travelled not more than 60 km. daily. Also, the Warsaw district was never really an emigration-area for Polish agricultural workers. It has to be observed, that unfortunately the agricultural workers ...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2233-A-PS - 2233-CC-PS : Excerpts from Frank's diary
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far above the highest Pole in this room [Page 1158, 2nd par. to p. 1159 4th line] And another thing was told me by the Fuehrer in all seriousness, a few days ago: that the old Japanese proverb:- after the war tighten your helmet strap-should retain its validity. Comrades, never again shall we be a weak Reich. The Armed...
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you to agree with me on the following formula: We will principally have pity on the German people only, and nobody else in the whole world. The others, too had no pity on us. As an old National-Socialist, I must say: This war would only be a partial success, if the whole lot of Jewry would survive it, while we would ha...
Yale Avalon (nca_vol4): 2233-A-PS - 2233-CC-PS : Excerpts from Frank's diary
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