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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

Closing statement presented by Joachim von Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg Trials; notes regarding Hitler's testament

Closing statement presented by Joachim von Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg Trials; notes regarding Hitler's testament - Closing statement presented by Joachim von Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg Trials: The International Military Tribunal is part of a conspiracy against Germany; - Notes on Hitler's testament: disagreement with Hitler's opinion that there will always be hatred between Jews and Germans.

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Documentation including summaries regarding the economic persecution of Jews, in the context of the preparations by the Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1946

Documentation including summaries regarding the economic persecution of Jews, in the context of the preparations by the Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1946 - Summary (in English) regarding the responsibility of the various organizations of the occupation authorities, for the economic persecution of the Jews in Luxemburg and Belgium; it was determined that Gustav Simon, the head of the civil administration in Luxemburg, was responsible for most of the steps of the anti-Jewish persecutions, including adoption of the Nuremberg Laws and declaring the registration of Jewish property; imposition of most...

File Number : 283

Type of Material : Survey Report, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Letter sent to Karl Frank, Der SS und Polizeifuehrer (SS and Police commander) in Bohemia and Moravia by the SIPO commander, regarding the appointment of the SIPO and SD commander as the political advisor for the Reichsprotektor, 1939 Decision by the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia to appoint the commander of the Sicherheitspolizei-SIPO (Security Police) and the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD –BdS (SD) in the Protectorate, to the position of Politischer Referent (political advisor); claim that the decision is not known and was not implemented as yet; request to take action to implement...

File Number : 265

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Documentation including investigation material of the charge against Nazi dentist Viering, accused of the coordination of the murder of a Jew in Germany, from the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946 Viering, a dentist from Barmen, is accused of the coordination of the murder of his Jewish competitor, Dr. Alfred Meyer; Viering held senior membership in the local Nazi Party; Viering's belief that he received a "License to Kill" from the authorities following the Nazi Party's rise to power; he thought of Meyer as a rival; spreading of slander against Meyer by Viering; theft of valuables from Alfred Meyer's...

File Number : 263

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Persecuted Persons, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Investigation material of the charges against Johann Rauter, chief of the Amsterdam Police, at the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946

Investigation material of the charges against Johann Rauter, chief of the Amsterdam Police, at the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946 Charge submitted against Johann Rauter, chief of the Amsterdam Police, for his order for the arrest of 400 young Jews, who were deported to Mauthausen camp in February 1941, following a clash between Nazi demonstrators who rioted in the Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam against Dutch and Jewish workers; death of most of the deportees [from exhaustion] due to the harsh labor in which they worked; survey of the affair; biographical details regarding Rauter; list of witnesses [and]...

File Number : 261

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Record of Survivors, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Orders by Hess in the name of Hitler, regarding the treatment of British and American pilots and paratroopers who land on German territory, 1940

Orders by Hess in the name of Hitler, regarding the treatment of British and American pilots and paratroopers who land on German territory, 1940 - Translation to English, including comments, of an order regarding the capture of pilots, guarding the contents of the aircraft, and reporting the incident to the nearest Police station; in special cases, it is permitted to kill the pilot on the spot; transmission of the order, by means of the Nazi Party; the order is meant to be dispersed among the population - only by verbal means; - Document in German, including an explanation regarding in which cases pilots...

File Number : 259

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : English, German

Documentation of the International Military Tribune - IMT in Nuremberg, 1945-1946, regarding the destruction of synagogues in Germany before Kristallnacht

Documentation of the International Military Tribune - IMT in Nuremberg, 1945-1946, regarding the destruction of synagogues in Germany before Kristallnacht List of people accused of the destruction of 20 synagogues and historical buildings in Nuremberg, Munich and Dortmund during 06-09/1938, including: Willy Liebel, the Kreisleiter (District head) and Mayor of Nuremberg; Julius Streicher, the Gauleiter of Franken; Koglmeier, the Secretary of the Office of the Interior of Bavaria; Hesseldieck, the Kreisleiter of Dortmund; Rudolf Hess, to whom the general order for the implementation of the destruction...

File Number : 258

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : English

Documentation of the International Military Tribune - IMT in Nuremberg, regarding anti-Jewish legislation in Germany

Documentation of the International Military Tribune - IMT in Nuremberg, regarding anti-Jewish legislation in Germany Anti-Jewish legislation; the part taken by the accused in the legislation of the laws; - Names of the accused: Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Frick, Wilhelm Stuckarth, Arthur Gutt, Berhard Losener, Martin Bormann, Fritz Reinhardt, Franz Schlegelberger, Ludwig Graf von Schwerin-Krosigk, and George Thierack; - Survey of the anti-Jewish legislation in Germany during 1933-1943, including the Nuremberg Laws, the regulations for the implementation of the anti-Jewish legislation, and the part taken...

File Number : 257

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : English

Two articles by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, including notes regarding Heinrich Himmler and general notes regarding the SS, with historical observations concerning the SS

Two articles by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, including notes regarding Heinrich Himmler and general notes regarding the SS, with historical observations concerning the SS Notes written in his Nuremberg prison cell by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA-Reich Main Security Office) at the request of Dr. G.M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist - General notes regarding the SS as the military branch of the NSDAP in its struggle for power; - Letter accompanying the notes regarding Heinrich Himmler, in actuality an apology for Kaltenbrunner's criminal actions; - Notes regarding...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English, German

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