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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 28 November 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 28 November 1949 Volume 54 Important note: This was the reply by Sir Arthur Comyns Carr on behalf of the Prosecution to the submissions and arguments of the Defense. (p. 65) Reply by Sir Arthur Comyns Carr on behalf of the Prosecution to the submissions and arguments of the Defense: Stalin's order: Speech broadcast by Stalin dealing with Hitler’s speech about the Jewish-Bolshevist system: “Destroy the Bolshevist-Jewish system”. (pp. 3-4) Massacre of Jews in...

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Indictment, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 22 November 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 22 November 1949 Volume 50 Order given by Stalin in broadcast speech (06/11/1941): Extermination of all Germans (ethnic Germans [Volksdeutsche] and captured German soldiers) on Russian soil. (pp. 6-7) Discussion between the Defense and the Prosecution regarding documents (pp. 3-4 and 8-9) Question/s regarding International Law: Documents from the International Military Tribunal (IMT) Judgment; Soviet government information to the Reich Government concerning...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation, Indictment

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 27 August 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 27 August 1949 Important note: Page 297, Page 298 and Page 363 are missing; Page 347 is a duplicate. Exhibit 33: Document PS 4064: Personal order of von Manstein (issued on 20/11/1941). Battle against the Bolshevik system: Punishment of Jewry as the spiritual bearer of the Bolshevist terror; Information regarding the food situation; Reichenau Order dated 28/10/1941. (pp. 3-8) Exhibit 34: Extract from the trial of the major war criminals before the International...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Indictment, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 28 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 28 October 1949 Important note: This is a Cross-examination of Field Marshal von Manstein in the witness box: (pp. 3-57) Treatment of POWs: (pp. 3-38) There were approximately 1,000 so-called auxiliary volunteers (Hiwis; Hilfsfreiwillige) in every division; Number of POWs; Food situation; OKH orders and reports; Transports of POWs during the winter; Reichenau order; Situation in the Crimea (pp. 3-12); War diary entry regarding the POWs in Simferopol (food and health...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 17 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 17 October 1949 Important note: The following statement is from the point of view of the Defense. Charge 7: Prohibited labor by POWs (pp. 4-24) Employment of POWs on prohibited and dangerous work: Construction of field positions and the clearing of mines; Law regarding prohibited and dangerous work: Arguments and definitions regarding this case by the Geneva Convention, The Hague Land Warfare Convention and Professor Oppenheim’s book “International Law”. (pp....

File Number : 28

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 07 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 07 October 1949 Continuation of the opening speech by the Defense of von Manstein; Important note: it is not from the point of view of the Defense. Overview of the four aspects in relation to the Crimea: 1. Treatment of POWs in the Crimea 2. Guerilla warfare 3. Propaganda: Reichenau Order 4. Activities of the Einsatzgruppen Included in this document are aspects no. 3 and 4: 3. Propaganda: Reichenau Order (pp. 05-12) 4. Activities of the Einsatzgruppen (pp....

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Indictment

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 05 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 05 October 1949 Erich von Manstein is called to the stand. (p. 3) Opening speech by the Defense: (pp. 4-27) Opening of the Defense of von Manstein (p. 5); Discussion regarding International Law, The Hague Convention, Law of Nations, and the Statute of Nuremberg (pp. 6-12); Field Marshal Montgomery at Glasgow, 28/10/1946: No legal limit to the duty of a general officer to obey (p. 12); Adolf Hitler had the sovereign authority (p. 15); Regarding the judgment in the Von...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Indictment, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 24 August 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 24 August 1949 Important note regarding the order of the material: File 1 ends with Charge 7.File 2 starts with the opening address of Charges 1-5 (pp. 4-55 and 71-74).Charges 8-17 are to be found on pp. 56-71.Page 85 is missing. Arraignment, continued: Charge 8: War crimes in the Soviet Union, between 22/06/1941-31/03/1944, in violation of the Laws and Usages of War, successively by the Commander of LVI Corps, Commander-in-Chief of the 11th Army, Army Group Don...

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Indictment

Language : English

Testimony of Schalom Karmesser born in Klimentow Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Radom prison and detention camps for British citizens in Holzburg and Sprottau

Testimony

Testimony of Schalom Karmesser born in Klimentow Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Radom prison and detention camps for British citizens in Holzburg and Sprottau Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1933; visit to his parents in Klimentow, summer 1939. Outbreak of the war; attempt to escape across Ukraine; return to Klimentow; arrest as a foreign citizen; transfer to the prison in Radom; transfer to the detention camp for British citizens in Holzburg; camp life conducted according to the Geneva Convention; transfer to Sprottau; camp life conducted according to the Geneva Convention until the liberation;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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