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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 Hjalmar Schacht at the Nuremberg Trials, and recollections of his involvement in Nazi politics

Closing statement presented by Hjalmar Schacht at the Nuremberg Trials, and recollections of his involvement in Nazi politics - Closing statement presented by Hjalmar Schacht at the Nuremberg Trials, including his claim that he tried to save the German Jews, and had tried to prevent the worst; - Schacht's recollections of his career as President of the Reichsbank and Reichswirtschaftsminister are presented as mitigating factors for his involvement in Nazi politics.

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Documentation containing a letter appointing Dr. Hjalmar Schacht to the position of Reichsbank Prasidenten (President), signed by Hitler and the three Jewish bankers, Mendelsohn, Wasserman and Wahrburg, 17 March 1933 Included in the file: - Decision of the Genealogy Ministry that the German Hepner is a Mischlinge, 20 January 1943; - Documentation of the Gestapos regarding the detention and the confiscation of the property of the Stern couple from Kitzingen, and their deportation to Izbica; - Reports and correspondence of the SS and the Wehrmacht regarding "Aktions" in Przemysl; - Position of the...

File Number : 186

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Documentation of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Promotional material of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the Jewish Question and increasing the anti-Jewish propaganda, 25 January 1939; - Deportation of German Jews holding Polish citizenship back to Poland, 28 October 1938; (486699-486700); - Request from Eichmann and SS men to learn Hebrew with a rabbi, 18 June 1937; - Request to cease the transfer of German Jewish capital to Eretz Israel, within the framework of the Haavara (Transfer) Agreement, 21 July 1938; - Declaration by Carl Rekowski, a former German Foreign...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding anti-Jewish propaganda and Jewish property, 1934-1944

Documentation regarding anti-Jewish propaganda and Jewish property, 1934-1944 - Instructions of von Neurath regarding anti-Jewish propaganda and the economic boycott against Germany, 1934; - Financial estimate of German Jewish assets, based on asset declarations, 27 April 1938; - Documentation regarding the influence of anti-Jewish legislation on the German economy including correspondence of Schacht, the German bank president, with Lammers, the director of the Fuehrer's bureau.

File Number : 32

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Gau Wien of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP, Vienna): Documents regarding propaganda and information, and a published opinion regarding Hjalmar Schacht

Gau Wien of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP, Vienna): Documents regarding propaganda and information, and a published opinion regarding Hjalmar Schacht 1. Memoranda, letters and forms from various Nazi organizations regarding propaganda and information (including a propaganda sheet against the Jews, No. 17); 2. Information pamphlet regarding the Pfadfinder Jungvolk (Scouts movement), 1931; 3. Opinion regarding Hjalmar Schacht [Hitler's Minister of Economics who joined a resistance group against Hitler after his dismissal from his position, and was arrested after the failure of the assassination...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter to Dr. Hans Lamm, head of Cultural Affairs of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, from Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, including Schacht's claims that he had helped German Jewry during his tenure as President of the Reichsbank, 1933-1939 In the file: 02 April 1959 Letter from Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, to Dr. Hans Lamm, head of Cultural Affairs of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, in which he claims to have helped German Jewry in his capacity as President of the Reichsbank,...

File Number : 321

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : German

Richard Glaser, born 1888 in Brieg, regarding the situation of Jews in the German finance sector between 1933 and 1938 and his experiences as an executive employee in the Commerzbank

Testimony of Richard Glaser, born in Brieg, Poland, 1888, regarding the situation of the Jews in the German financial sector, 1933-1938, and his experiences as an executive employee in the Commerzbank - Service as Vice Director of the Commerzbank in Berlin, a position he had held even before 1933 (the exact date is not mentioned); -Pilot trip to Eretz Israel as part of his emigration plans, 1934; summons to speak with Mr. Reinhard, the Chairman of the Board of Directors along with two other Jews in executive positions on his return; assurance from Reinhard that Hitler is the greatest man since Jesus, and...

File Number : 196

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Articles on guilt and morale of the Nazis

Five articlles on guilt and morale of the Nazis, among them two short essays about Krupp and Schacht.

File Number : 1203

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : German