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Homme politique allemand (Munich 1900-Lüneburg 1945). Issu d'une famille bavaroise, bourgeoise et catholique pratiquante, le jeune Heinrich est un élève assidu mais de constitution fragile qui accueille avec enthousiasme l'annonce de l'éclatement de la...

Né à Munich (Allemagne) le 07/10/1900 ; Mort à Lüneburg (Allemagne) le 23/05/1945. Heinrich Himmler naît au sein d'une famille catholique en 1900. Il est d'abord ingénieur agricole dès 1922, puis s'intéresse de plus en plus à la politique. Il prend part...

* 25. Oktober 1889, Thorn † 9. Februar 1975, Bad Wimpfen. Ritterkreuz (13. Dezember 1941) Karl Böttcher trat am 13. März 1909 als Fähnrich in die Kaiserliche Armee ein. Er kam dabei zum Niederschlesisches Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 5. Nach der Absolvierung...

Christian Wirth was born on 24 November 1885 in Oberbalzheim, Wurttemburg, Germany. Following the completion of his education, he was employed as an apprentice carpenter with the Buhler brother’s timber firm. Christian Wirth when assigned to Hartheim,...

Konrad Morgen was born on the 8 June 1908 in Frankfurt –am – Main, the son of a railroad worker. He chose a career in the legal profession and graduated from the University of Frankfurt and The Hague Academy of International Law, and became a judge in...

Executive Order 9547 Providing for Representation of the United States in Preparing and Prosecuting Charges of Atrocities and War Crimes Against the Leaders of the European Axis Powers and Their Principal Agents and Accessories May 2, 1945 By virtue of...

Amendment of Executive Order No. 9547 of May 2, 1945, Entitled "Provisions for Representation of the United States in Preparation and Prosecuting Charges of Atrocities and War Crimes Against the Leaders of the European Axis Powers and Their Principal...

TRANSLATION FROM GERMAN. "Certified,Translation from Polish language." File: N.T.N. 5/47 EXCERPTS FROM THE VERDICT in connection with the accused HANS MUNCH. In the name of the Peoples Republic POI, AND on Dec. 22 1947 The Highest Peoples Court under...

Reference Charter of the International Military Tribunal Trial Defendants & Verdicts In-Depth Overview of Defendants & Crimes In-Depth Overview of Judgements & Sentencings Photographs Justice Jackson's Report to President Truman on Atrocities and War...

MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I have the honor to report accomplishments during the month since you named me as Chief of Counsel for the United States in prosecuting the principal Axis War Criminals. In brief, I have selected staffs from the several services,...

Schacht is indicted under Counts One and Two of the Indictment. Schacht served as Commissioner of Currency land President of the Reichsbank from 1923 to 1930; was reappointed President of the bank on 17th March, 1933; Minister of Economics in August,...

Fritzsche is indicted on Counts One, Three, and Four. He was best known at a radio commentator, discussing once a week the events of the day on his own programme, " Hans Fritzsche Speaks." He began broadcasting in September, 1932; in the same year he...

Von Schirach is indicted under Counts One and Four. He joined the Nazi Party and the SA in 1925. In 1929 he became the Leader of the National Socialist Students Union. In 1931 he was made Reichs Youth Leader of the Nazi Party with control over all Nazi...

Von Neurath is indicted under all Four Counts. He is a professional diplomat who served as German Ambassador to Great Britain from 1930 to 1932. On 2nd June, 1932, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the von Papen cabinet, a position which...

Speer is indicted under all Four Counts. Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1932. In 1934, he was made Hitler's architect and became a close personal confidant. Shortly thereafter he was made a Department Head in the German Labour Front and the official in...

Doenitz is indicted on Counts One, Two and Three. In 1935 he took command of the first U-boat flotilla commissioned since 1918, became in 1936 commander of the submarine arm, was made Vice-Admiral in 1940, Admiral in 1942, and on 30th January, 1943, Commander-in-Chief...

Raeder is indicted on Counts One, Two and Three. In 1928, he became Chief of Naval Command and in 1935 Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine (OKM); in 1939 Hitler made him Gross-Admiral. He was a member of the Reich Defence Council. On 30th January, 1943,...

Funk is indicted under all four counts. Funk, who had previously been a financial journalist, joined the Nazi Party in 1931, and shortly thereafter became one of Hitler's personal economic advisers. On 30th January, 1933, Funk was made Press Chief in...

Ribbentrop is indicted under all four counts. He joined the Nazi Party in 1932. By 1933 he had been made Foreign Policy Adviser to Hitler, and in the same year the representative of the Nazi Party on Foreign Policy, In 1934 he was appointed Delegate for...

Streicher is indicted on Counts One and Four. One of the earliest members of the Nazi Party, joining in 1921, he took part in the Munich Putsch. From 1925 to 1940 he was Gauleiter of Franconia. Elected to the Reichstag in 1933, he was an honorary general...

Seyss-Inquart is indicted under all Four Counts. Seyss-Inquart, an Austrian attorney, was appointed State Councilor in Austria in May, 1937, as a result of German pressure. He had been associated with the Austrian Nazi Party since 1931, but had often...

Sauckel is indicted under all four counts. Sauckel joined the Nazi Party in 1923, and became Gauleiter of Thuringia in 1927. He was a member of the Thuringian legislature from 1927 to 1933, was appointed Reichsstabthalter for Thuringia in 1932, and Thuringian...

Rosenberg is indicted on all four counts. He joined the Nazi Party in 1919, participated in the Munich Putsch of 9th November, 1923, and tried to keep the illegal Nazi Party together while Hitler was in jail. Recognised as the Party's ideologist, he developed...

Keitel is indicted on all four counts. He was Chief of Staff to the then Minister of War von Blomberg from 1935 to 4th February, 1938; on that day Hitler took command of the armed forces, making Keitel Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces. Keitel...

Kaltenbrunner is indicted under Counts One, Three and Four. He joined the Austrian Nazi Party and the SS in 1932. In 1935 he became leader of the SS in Austria. After the Anschluss he was appointed Austrian State Secretary for Security and when this position...

Jodl is indicted on all four counts. From 1935 to 1938 he was chief of the National Defence Section in the High Command. After a year in command of troops in August, 1939, he returned to become Chief of the Operations Staff of the High Command of the...

Goering is indicted on all four counts. The evidence shows that after Hitler he was the most prominent man in the Nazi Regime. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan, and had tremendous influence with Hitler,...

Frick is indicted on all four counts. Recognised as the chief Nazi administrative specialist and bureaucrat, he was appointed Reichminister of the Interior in Hitler's first cabinet. He retained this important position until August, 1943, when he was...

Frank is indicted under Counts One, Three and Four. Frank joined the Nazi Party in 1927. He became a member of the Reichstag in 1930, the Bavarian State Minister of Justice in March, 1933, and when this position was incorporated into the Reich Government...

Bormann is indicted on Counts One, Three, and Four. He joined the National Socialist Party in 1925, was a member of the Staff of the Supreme Command of the SA from 1928 to 1930, was in charge of the Aid Fund of the Party, and was Reichsleiter from 1933...

Death by Hanging Martin Bormann Hans Frank Wilhelm Frick Hermann Goering Alfred Jodl Ernst Kaltenbrunner Wilhelm Keitel Alfred Rosenberg Fritz Sauckel Artur Seyss-Inquart Julius Streicher Joachim von Ribbentrop Life Imprisonment Walter Funk Rudolf Hess...

A. SCHIRACH'S NSDAP MEMBERSHIP, NSDAP POSITIONS, AND GOVERNMENT POSITIONS. In an affidavit (3302-PS), Schirach has declared that he held the following positions: Positions in the Nazi Party (1) NSDAP member, 1925 to 1945 (2) Leader of the National Socialist...

A. POSITIONS HELD BY RIBBENTROP. According to Ribbentrop's own certified statement (2829-PS), he became a member of the Nazi Party in 1932, but according to the semi-official statement in "Das Archiv," he had gone to work for the Party before that time...

A. POSITIONS HELD BY VON PAPEN. (1) Awarded the Golden Party Badge by Hitler, thereby becoming member of NSDAP (2902-PS; Das Archiv vol. 48, p. 1614). (2) Member of Reichstag, 1933-1945 (2902-PS). (3) Reich Chancellor, 1 June 1942 to 2 December 1942,...

A. POSITIONS AND HONORS HELD BY VON NEURATH. He was a member of the Nazi Party from 30 January 1937 until 1945, and vas awarded the Golden Party Badge on 30 January 1937. He was General in the SS. He was personally appointed Gruppenfuehrer by Hitler in...

Through his words and his deeds Julius Streicher assumed for himself the unofficial title of "Jew-baiter Number One" of Nazi Germany. For the course of some twenty-five years, Streicher educated the German people in hatred and incited them to the persecution...

Within the Nazi conspiracy Seyss-Inquart became the expert manipulator and subjugator of countries to be invaded or already invaded by the Nazi conspirators, first of Austria, later of Poland and The Netherlands. For the benefit of the Nazi conspirators...

The prosecution concedes, at the outset, that although Schacht believed that the Jews of Germany should be stripped of their rights as citizens, he was not in complete sympathy with that aspect of the Nazi Party's program which involved the wholesale...

A. THE POLITICAL CAREER OF ROSENBERG. I. The political career of Alfred Rosenberg embraced the entire history of National Socialism and permeated nearly every phase of the conspiracy. In order to obtain a full conception of his Influence upon and participation...

A. POSITIONS HELD BY RAEDER. Erich Raeder was born in 1876 and joined the German Navy in 1896. By 1915 he had become commander of the Cruiser Koeln. In 1928 he became an admiral, Chief of Naval Command, and head of the German Navy. In 1935 he became Commander-in-...