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International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg indictment against the major war criminals

International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg indictment against the major war criminals Charges cited in the indictments: - Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace; - Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace; - War crimes; - Crimes against humanity. The 24 defendants: Martin Bormann; Karl Doenitz; Hans Frank; Wilhelm Frick; Hans Fritzsche; Walther Funk; Hermann Goering; Rudolf Hess; Alfred Jodl; Ernst Kaltenbrunner; Wilhelm Keitel; Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach; Robert Ley; Konstantin von...

File Number : 38

Type of Material : Indictment

Language : English

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish

Testimony

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish Life before the war; his mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was a Jewish Communist; life in a non-Jewish workers' neighborhood. Visits by the Gestapo in his family's home; his father's work building hangars for the German Army; his father leaves his work due to relations with the factory manager; escape to an apartment with non-Jewish families; life in a room in the apartment; birth of his brother, 1942; his family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the International Court of Law in Nuremberg against Hans Frank

Documentation of the International Court of Law in Nuremberg against Hans Frank - Order by Goering and Frank, regarding the potential economic subservience of the Generalgouvernement to the German economy (the copy includes documents of the International Court of Law in Nuremberg); request not to administer economic policies in the Generalgouvernement for a long period of time, and to direct the economy in the region for the production of agricultural products and raw materials for the purpose of implementing urgent missions of the Wehrmacht and to supply laborers to Germany, 25 January 1940 (pp. 2-6); -...

File Number : 285

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Manifesto, Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Alfred Petersen, a member of the board of the Metallgesellschaft company in Frankfurt am Main, regarding the Aryanization of the company, dated, 1947

Testimony of Alfred Petersen, a member of the board of the Metallgesellschaft company in Frankfurt am Main, regarding the Aryanization of the company, dated, 1947 Status of the Jews in the company in 1933; process for the dismissal of the Jews from the company and the taking control over the company by the Germans; resignation of Heinrich Strauss, the company director, 1938; arrest of Alfred Petersen, 1938; escape of the remainder of the company's board members from Germany; taking over control of the company by Avieny, a protégé of the German Gauleiter; Rudolf Euler remains [in the company] due to his...

File Number : 234

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : German

Testimony of Rudolf Euler, vice president of the directorate of the Metallgesellschaft company in Frankfurt am Main, regarding the Aryanization of the company, dated, 1947

Testimony of Rudolf Euler, vice president of the directorate of the Metallgesellschaft company in Frankfurt am Main, regarding the Aryanization of the company, dated, 1947 Establishment and administration of the Metallgesellschaft metal company (one of the largest in Germany) by Jews; Goering and others are interested in the company due to its status; status of the Jews in the company in 1933; process for the dismissal of the Jews from the company and the taking control over the company by the Germans; resignation of Heinrich Strauss, the company director, 1938; arrest of Alfred Petersen, 1938; escape of the...

File Number : 233

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : English

Report from Krakow, regarding the situation of the Jews from Germany who were deported to the Lublin area, 1940

Report from Krakow, regarding the situation of the Jews from Germany who were deported to the Lublin area, 1940 Information received by the Combined Help Committee of Poles and Jews in the Generalgouvernement; Continuation of the deportation of German Jews to Poland by Himmler's order despite the opposition of the [governor? of the] Generalgouvernement; experiences of 160 Jews from Schneidemuehl who were deported to the Lublin area on 12/03/1940, including a march [of approximately 30 kilometers] to the villages of Piaski, Glusk and Selcyca; population of the villages with the Jews who survived, among the...

File Number : 210

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : German

Documentation of the Commissioner for the Four Year Plan (Beauftragter fuer den Vierjahresplan), Germany, 1933-1945

Documentation of the Commissioner for the Four Year Plan (Beauftragter fuer den Vierjahresplan), Germany, 1933-1945 The Four Year Plan is an economic plan, that began in 1936, and that was meant to prepare Germany for war. Hermann Goering was appointed to head the program. The monitoring of the economy in the Third Reich before the war was not absolute and the objectives of the program were only partially achieved, due to, among others, lack of coordination between the supervisors in the various fields. At the beginning of the war, the German economy became more centralized and the responsibility for...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jews in Herne, Germany, 1933-1942

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jews in Herne, Germany, 1933-1942 - Photograph and plan of the synagogue in Herne, 1910, (pp. 2-3); - Ad in the "Herner Zeitung" newspaper regarding the cessation of publishing ads advertising Jewish-owned businesses and Jewish organizations by the paper, from 21 June 1933 (p. 4); - Instructions from the mayor of Herne, 29 May 1934: It is obligatory for all clerks wishing to get married to report the Aryan background of their future spouse, and the immediate dismissal of all clerks who married a non-Aryan after 01 July 1933, (p. 5); - Instructions from...

File Number : 427

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Regina (Fertig) Scheinmann, born in Berlin, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Neusalz, on a death march, Flossenbuerg and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Regina (Fertig) Scheinmann, born in Berlin, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Neusalz, on a death march, Flossenbuerg and Bergen-Belsen camps The Fertig household; childhood in Hindenburg. Deportation to Oswiecim, 28 October 1938; deportation of her father to a labor camp; life in the Sosnowiec Ghetto with her mother and sister, 1941-1942; deportation of her mother and sister to Auschwitz; transfer of the witness to the Neusalz labor camp; camp life and labor in the Gruschwitz Werke factory, 1942-1945; death march to Flossenbuerg camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen by...

File Number : 12151

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Ghetto and the deportation from Berlin to Lodz, 1945 - 1968 Note: This file includes not only material of the proceedings against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, but also memoirs of a Jewish survivor from Berlin and material of other proceedings against Nazi Criminals in the years since 1956. The recording of these material here was in order to substantiate the evidences against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle. The file includes...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Reports, Letter, Testimony, Diaries and Memoirs, List of Names

Language : German

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