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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

Material of the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, 1941-1944

Material of the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, 1941-1944 After the German attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Reich Commissariat Ukraine was established on September 1, 1941. At the beginning, its borders were the Generalgovernement in the west, the Dnjestr river in the south, the Slutsch and the Horyn rivers to the East, and the Reich Commissariat Ostland in the north. With the further occupation by the German troopes, the Reich Commissariat was expanded by and by until September 1, 1942. During 1943 the Red Army re-gained most parts of the commissariat. At the beginning of 1944 the Reich...

Type of Material : Protocol, Laws and Decrees, Correspondence, Survey Report, Telephone Directory, Propaganda, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Official Documentation, List of Names in Government Records

Language : German

Summary of a discussion held by Rosenberg with Hitler, 14 December 1941

Summary of a discussion held by Rosenberg with Hitler, 14 December 1941 Rosenberg details the subjects that were raised in the discussion with Hitler on 14 December 1941, including: The political status of Ostland; propaganda use of the political will of the Russian Czar, Peter the Great, ban on marriages between Germans and residents of the Eastern territories; attempts by Koch to circumvent Rosenberg and to report directly to Hitler; establishment of "Caucasian" units within the Wehrmacht; danger of nationalist movements among the Tatars; Hitler's intentions "to clean" Crimea; arrangement of the border...

File Number : 252

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent by Alfred Rosenberg to Hans Lammers, the head of the Reichskanzlei (Reichs Chancellor's office), including his objection to the appointment of von Hentig as the German Ambassador in Afghanistan, 1941 The letter was also sent to the Staatssekretaer Weissaecker, with a request to convey it to Hitler; explanation of his objection, in the Aktennotiz document attached to the letter; Rosenberg accuses von Hentig of creating a gap and conflict between the Nazi Party's Aussenpolitisches Amt (Foreign Policies Office) and the Auswaertiges Amt (Foreign Ministry) of Germany; objection by Rosenberg to the...

File Number : 205

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent to the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland) by the Reichsminister fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Minister for the Occupied Territories in the East), regarding the Solution of the Jewish Question, 1941 Agreement by Rosenberg, the Reichs Minister for the Occupied Territories in the East, to the proposal by Lohse, the Reichs commissioner in Ostland, regarding the Solution of the Jewish Question; included is a document regarding a deliberation held between Dr. Wetzel, the Sachbearbeiter (Clerk responsible for the matter) and Brack, a representative of the office of Hitler...

File Number : 200

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Ten sample documents regarding the fate of French Jewry, 1939-1944 from a collection entitled "In Order to Remember", prepared as an exhibition by the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC- Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) In the file: - A partial list of the deportees in the transport from Drancy to Pithiviers, 17 August 1942. Indexed separately in the Sapir system, Entry Number 4319461.

File Number : 391

Type of Material : Documents, Official Documentation, Identity Card

Language : French, German

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Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin and Berlin Jewish survivors, 1965 The file includes i. A.: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin as witnesses: Information on the participation of former members of the Gestapoleitstelle in the prosecution and deportation of the Jews from Berlin; information on the act of confiscation and seizure of Jewish property by the...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 14 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 14 October 1949 Important note: The following statement is from the point of view of the Defense. Charge 4: The inhumane treatment of POWs: Number of POWs; There were a total of 430,000 POWs between 09/1941 until von Manstein left the Crimea in July 1942 (p. 4); History of the campaign (pp. 4-5); Food situation (pp. 5-9); Handing over of POWs to the SD: Persons in the hands of the SD were not candidates for a death sentence; Employment of persons, even Jews, by the SD;...

File Number : 27

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

Language : English

Documentation regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in the "occupied Eastern territories" (Soviet Union) during 1941-1944, including postwar testimonies and affidavits, administrative correspondence, reports, anti-Jewish decrees and orders, and other documents; documents dated, 1941-1965 Included in the file: 18/06/1943 (p. 3) Letter by the Reich Commissioner for the Ostland (Hinrich Lohse), addressed to the Reichsminister for the occupied Eastern territories (Alfred Rosenberg), regarding secret reports of the General Commissioner in Minsk, Wilhelm Kube, concerning the handling of the "Jewish...

File Number : 137

Type of Material : Letter(s), Reports, Circular, Laws and Decrees, Note, Legal Documentation, Survey Report, Testimony, Correspondence

Language : German

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