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Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 16 December 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 16 December 1949 Volume 61 Summing up by the Judge Advocate of the evidence relating to the 17 Charges: (pp. 3-49) Individual Charges: Statement by the Judge Advocate concerning Charge 15: (pp. 3-5) Orders for the forced labor of civilians of the Soviet Union for the purpose of carrying out military operations, or work directly connected therewith; Employment of civilians of the Soviet Union for such forced labor (p. 3); International law concerning the employment of...

File Number : 61

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, 14 December 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 14 December 1949 Volume 59 Summing up of the evidence relating to the 17 Charges, by the Judge Advocate: (pp. 3-55) Individual Charges: Statement by the Judge Advocate concerning Charge 9 and Charge 10. (pp. 3-46) Executive power of the Reichsfuehrer SS (p. 3); Organization of the Security Police and the SD (pp. 3-4); Co-operation between Special Task Forces (Einsatzgruppen, Einsatzkommandos) of the SD, also Secret Field Police. (p. 5) Concerning Charge 9 and...

File Number : 59

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, 13 December 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 13 December 1949 Volume 58 Summing up of the evidence relating to the 17 Charges by the Judge Advocate: (pp. 3-70) Individual Charges: Statement by the Judge Advocate concerning Charge 4: (pp. 3-11) Treatment of prisoners of war (POWs); Evidence before the International Military Trial - I.M.T. at Nuremberg (p. 3); Food situation and food rationing (pp. 3-5); POW camps in the Crimea (p. 4); Different cases concerning the maltreatment of POWs (pp. 6-8); Killing of...

File Number : 58

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, 15 November 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 15 November 1949 Important note: Volume 46 and 47 (Yad Vashem Archives TR.4/ 46-47): nonexistent. Volume 48 Note: The document starts mid-sentence with a discussion between the Prosecution and the Defense, regarding a translation concerning the killing of POWs. (p. 3) Articles regarding the guerilla movements, activities and operations in the Soviet Union, Crimea and Ukraine; Killing of German and Romanian soldiers by guerillas; Explosion of German Army trains....

File Number : 48

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, 25 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 25 October 1949 Important note: This statement was [given] by the accused. Examination of Field Marshal von Manstein in the witness box, by Dr. Laternser (for the Defense): Correction/Objection by the Defense: Discussion regarding the translation of the term “battle zone”; Is it “Gefechtsgebiet” or “Kampfzone” (pp. 3-4); Regarding a map (pp. 4-6); Report by von Manstein regarding the course of war in Russia: The battle of Stalingrad; Role of the Romanian Army;...

File Number : 33

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, 24 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 24 October 1949 Important note: This was a statement by the accused; Examination of Field Marshal von Manstein in the witness box, by Dr. Laternser (for the Defense): Reichenau Order: Barbarossa Jurisdiction Order (p. 4); Manstein Order: Similar order to General Reichenau’s Order (p. 5); Danger of partisans in the Crimea (p. 5); Exhibit 33: Reichenau Order to Manstein: Close connection between Jews and Bolsheviks in Russia (p. 5; p. 9); Order initials (p. 7); von...

File Number : 32

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, 06 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 06 October 1949 Continuation of the opening speech by the Defense of von Manstein; Important note: This is from the point of view of the Defense. Barbarossa order by Adolf Hitler before the war. (p. 4) Russian campaign: Killing of Russian commissars. (pp. 5-10) Von Manstein’s own account of what happened in the Crimea (pp. 10-17); Important note: Von Manstein does not use or mention, at any time, the words: Jew, Jewish, Bolshevist, final aim [solution], or...

File Number : 23

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, 20 September 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 20 September 1949 Continuation of Charge 17: Reports regarding the number of evacuations, destructions and demolitions in the area of Army Group South by the Army, SS, Einsatzgruppe, SD, Military Police, civilian police forces and other units under the command of Army Group South, between 23/09/1943-04/1944 (pp. 3-31); Selection of workers/POW camps (p. 11); Civilian labor (p. 12); Number of forced laborers and Hiwis. (pp. 18-19) Testimony: Witness Johann Gaffal,...

File Number : 20

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

Language : English

Documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 19 September 1949

Documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 19 September 1949 Continuation of indictment no. 17: Deportation/ evacuation of Russian civilian residents and the destruction of all industrial works, power plants, waterworks and mines (p. 4) Objection by the Defense (Mr. Silkin): Correction of some textual mistakes (pp. 8-12) Orders by the Army Group Don regarding the evacuation and preparation for demolition in the army-occupied territories, the draft of local residents fit for labor and, in this connection, the draft of...

File Number : 19

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

Language : English

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