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87) ......................... VI 883 *C-64 Raeder's report, 12 December 1939, on meeting of Naval Staff with Fuehrer. (GB 86) ......................... VI 884 *C-65 Notes of Rosenberg to Raeder concerning visit of Quisling. (GB 85) ......................... VI 885 *C-66 Memorandum from Raeder to Assman, 10 January 1944, concerning "Barbarossa" and "Weseruebung". (GB 81) ......................... VI 887 *C-78 Schmundt's Order of 9 June 1941, convening conference on Barbarossa on 14 June. (USA 139) ......................... VI 909 *C-102 Document signed by Hitler relating to operation "Otto", 11 March 1938. (USA 74) ......................... VI 911 *C-102 Directives for Armed Forces 1939-40 for "Fall Weiss", operation against Poland. (GB 41) ......................... VI 916 *C-122 Extract from Naval War Diary. Questionnaire on Norway bases, 3 October 1939. (GB 82) ......................... VI 928 *C-126 Preliminary Time Table for "Fall Weiss" and directions for secret mobilization. (GB 45) ......................... VI 932 *C-136 OKW Order on preparations for war, 21 October 1938, signed by Hitler and initialed by Keitel. (USA 104) ......................... VI 947 *C-138 Supplement of 17 December 1938, signed by Keitel, to 21 October Order of the OKW. (USA 105) ......................... VI 950 *C-139 Directive for operation "Schulung" signed by Blomberg, 2 May 1935. (USA 53) ......................... VI 951 *C-142 Intention of the Army High Command and Orders, signed by Brauchitsch. (USA 538) ......................... VI 956 *C-148 Keitel Order, 16 September 1941, Subject: Communist Insurrection in Occupied Territories. (USA 555) ......................... VI 961 *C-156 Concealed Rearmament under Leadership of Government of Reich, from "Fight of the Navy against Versailles 1919-1935". (USA 41) ......................... VI 970 *C-159 Order for Rhineland occupation signed by Blomberg, 2 March 1936. (USA 54) ......................... VI 974 *C-167 Report of meeting between Raeder and Hitler, 18 March 1941. (GB 122) ......................... VI 977 *C-174 Hitler Order for operation "Weseruebung", 1 March 1940. (GB 89) ......................... VI 1003 *C-178 Order of Navy concerning treatment of saboteurs, 11 February 1943. (USA 544) ......................... VI 1012 *C-179 Hitler's
Hitler, 18 March 1941. (GB 122) ......................... VI 977 *C-174 Hitler Order for operation "Weseruebung", 1 March 1940. (GB 89) ......................... VI 1003 *C-178 Order of Navy concerning treatment of saboteurs, 11 February 1943. (USA 544) ......................... VI 1012 *C-179 Hitler's second decree, 18 October 1942, regarding annihilation of terror and sabotage units. (USA 543) ......................... VI 1014 *C-182 Directive No. 2 from Supreme Commander Armed Forces, initialed Jodl, 11 March 1938. (USA 77) ......................... VI 1017 *D-39 Telegrams relating to activities against partisans in Italy. (GB 275) ......................... VI 1023 *D-411 Letters of 26 and 28 November 1941, enclosing orders concerning protection of troops against Partisans and sabotage. (USA 556) ......................... VII 49 *D-569 File of circulars from Reichsfuehrer SS, the OKW, Inspector of Concentration Camps, Chief of Security Police and SD, dating from 29 October 1941 through 22 February 1944, relative to procedure in cases of unnatural death of Soviet PW, execution of Soviet PW, etc. (GB 277) ......................... VII 74 *D-730 Statement of P W Walther Grosche, 11 December 1945. (GB 279) ......................... VII 177 *D-731 Statement of PW Ernst Walde, 13 December 1945. (GB 278) ......................... VII 183 *D-762 Order of Hitler, 30 July 1944, concerning combating of "terrorists" and "saboteurs" in Occupied Territories. (GB 298) ......................... VII 221 *D-763 Circular of OKW, 18 August 1944, regarding penal jurisdiction of non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 300) ......................... VII 222 *D-764 Circular of OKW, 18 August 1944, concerning combating of "terrorists" and "saboteurs" in Occupied Territories and jurisdiction relative thereto. (GB 299) ......................... VII 223 *D-765 Directives of OKW, 2 September 1944, regarding offenses by non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 302) ......................... VII 225 *D-766 Circular of OKW, 4 September 1944, regarding offenses by non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 301) ......................... VII 226 *D-767 Memorandum, 13 September 1944, on offenses by non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB
......................... VII 225 *D-766 Circular of OKW, 4 September 1944, regarding offenses by non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 301) ......................... VII 226 *D-767 Memorandum, 13 September 1944, on offenses by non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 303) ......................... VII 228 *D-769 Telegram signed by Gen. Christiansen, 21 September 1940, relative to application of capital punishment in connection with Railway strike in Holland. (GB 304) ......................... VII 229 *D-770 Circular, 24 September 1944, on offenses of Non-German civilians in Occupied Territories. (GB 305) ......................... VII 229 *D-774 Directive of Chief of OKW to German Foreign Office at Salzburg, on Treatment of Allied "Terrorist"-flyers, 14 June 1944. (GB 307) ......................... VII 231 *D-775 Draft of directive, 14 June 1944, from OKW to Supreme Commander of "Luftwaffe", regarding treatment of Allied "Terrorist"-flyers. (GB 308) ......................... VII 232 *D-776 Draft of directive of Chief of OKW, 15 June 1944, to German Foreign Office at Salzburg, concerning treatment of Allied "Terrorist"-flyers. (GB 309) ......................... VII 233 *D-777 Draft of Directive, 15 June 1944, from OKW to Supreme Commander of "Luftwaffe" concerning treatment of Allied "Terrorist"-flyers. (GB 310) ......................... VII 234 *D-778 Notes, 18 June 1944, concerning treatment of Anglo-American "Terrorist"-flyers. (GB 311) ......................... VII 235 *D-779 Letter from Reichsmarschall to Chief of OKW, 19 August 1944, regarding treatment of Allied "Terrorist"-flyers. (GB 312) ......................... VII 235 *D-780 Draft of communication from Ambassador Ritter, Salzburg, to Chief of OKW, 20 June 1944, on treatment of Allied "Terrorist"-flyers. (GB 313) ......................... VII 236 *D-781 Note of OKW to Supreme Commander of "Luftwaffe", 23 June 1944, regarding treatment of Allied "Terrorist"-flyers. (GB 314) ......................... VII 239 *D-782 Note from German Foreign Office, Salzburg, 25 June 1944, to OKW. (GB 315) ......................... VII 239 *D-783 Note of a telephone communication, 26 June 1944, with regard to treatment of "Terrorist"-aviators. (GB 316) ......................... VII
314) ......................... VII 239 *D-782 Note from German Foreign Office, Salzburg, 25 June 1944, to OKW. (GB 315) ......................... VII 239 *D-783 Note of a telephone communication, 26 June 1944, with regard to treatment of "Terrorist"-aviators. (GB 316) ......................... VII 240 *D-784 Note from Operation Staff of OKW signed Warlimont, 30 June 1944, concerning treatment of Allied "Terrorist"-flyers. (GB 317) ......................... VII 240 *D-785 Note from OKW to Supreme Commander of "Luftwaffe", 4 July 1944, concerning "Terror"-flyers. (GB 318) ......................... VII 241 *D-786 Note, 5 July 1944, on "Terror"-flyers. (GB 319) ......................... VII 242 *L-43 Air Force "Organizational Study 1950", 2 May 1938. (GB 29) (See Chart No. 10.) ......................... VII 788 *L-51 Affidavit of Adolf Zutter, 2 August 1945. (USA 521) ......................... VII 798 *L-52 Memorandum and Directives for conduct of war in the West, 9 October 1939. (USA 540) ......................... VII 800 *L-79 Minutes of conference, 23 May 1939, "Indoctrination on the political situation and future aims". (USA 27) ......................... VII 847 L-166 Minutes of conference on Fighter Aircraft with Reichsmarshal on 15 and 16 May 1944 ......................... VII 911 *L-172 "The Strategic Position at the Beginning of the 5th Year of War", a lecture delivered by Jodl on 7 November 1943 at Munich to Reich and Gauleiters. (USA 34) ......................... VII 920 *L-180 Report by SS Brigade Commander Stahlecker to Himmler, "Action Group A", 15 October 1941. (USA 276) ......................... VII 978 *L-323 Entry in Naval War Diary concerning operation "Weseruebung". (USA 541) ......................... VII 1106 *R-95 Army Order signed by von Brauchitsch, 30 March 1941, concerning deployment instructions for "Action 25" and supplementary instruction for action "Marita". (GB 127) ......................... VIII 70 *R-102 Report on activities of The Task Forces of SIPO and SD in USSR, 1-31 October 1941, (USA 470) ......................... VIII 96 R-118 Drafts of letters and memoranda of General Staff of Armed Forces concerning treatment of enemy fliers ......................... VIII 127 *R-135 Letter to Rosenberg enclosing secret reports from
on activities of The Task Forces of SIPO and SD in USSR, 1-31 October 1941, (USA 470) ......................... VIII 96 R-118 Drafts of letters and memoranda of General Staff of Armed Forces concerning treatment of enemy fliers ......................... VIII 127 *R-135 Letter to Rosenberg enclosing secret reports from Kube on German atrocities in the East, 18 June 1943, found in Himmler's personal files. (USA 289) ......................... VIII 205 *TC-54-B Von Brauchitsch appeal to the people of Danzig, from Documents of German Politics, Part VII, p.596. (GB 73) ......................... VIII 410 *UK-66 Report of British War Crimes Section of Allied Force Headquarters on German reprisals for partisan activity in Italy. (GB 274) ......................... VIII 572 UK-81 Letters of 26 November and 28 October 1941, with enclosed orders on protection of troops against Partisans and Sabotage and conduct of troops in Eastern Territories ......................... VIII 582 Affidavit A Affidavit of Erwin Lahousen, 21 January 1946, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 30 November and 1 December 1945 ......................... VIII 587 Affidavit B Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 20 November 1945, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 3 January 1946 ......................... VIII 596 Affidavit D Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 23 January 1946, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 4 January 1946 ......................... VIII 622 Affidavit H Affidavit of Franz Halder, 22 November 1945 ......................... VIII 643 Affidavit I Affidavit of Leopold Buerkner, 22 January 1946 ......................... VIII 647 Affidavit J Affidavit of Erhard Milch, 23 January 1946 ......................... VIII 653 Statement III The Origin of the Directives of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, by Wilhelm Keitel, Nurnberg, 15 September 1945 ......................... VIII 669 Statement IV The Position and Powers of the Chief of the OKW, by Wilhelm Keitel, Nurnberg, 9 October 1945
VIII 653 Statement III The Origin of the Directives of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, by Wilhelm Keitel, Nurnberg, 15 September 1945 ......................... VIII 669 Statement IV The Position and Powers of the Chief of the OKW, by Wilhelm Keitel, Nurnberg, 9 October 1945 ......................... VIII 672 Statement V Notes Concerning Actions of German Armed Forces During the War and in Occupied Territory, by Wilhelm Keitel, Nurnberg, 19 October 1945 ......................... VIII 678 Statement IX My Relationship to Adolf Hitler and to the Party, by Erich Raeder, Moscow, fall 1945 ......................... VIII 707 **Chart No. 7 Organization of the Wehrmacht 1938-1945. (Enlargement displayed to Tribunal.) ......................... VIII 776 **Chart No. 10 1938 Proposals for Luftwaffe Expansion 1938-1950. (L-43; GB 29) ......................... VIII 779 Chapter XV Part 6 Contents Chapter XVI Part 1
1. HERMANN WILHELM GOERING For more than two decades Hermann Goering played one of the foremost roles amongst the Nazi conspirators. He, who called himself the most faithful paladin of the Fuehrer, was a key figure within the conspiracy, participating in nearly all phases of the conspiratorial activities. He took part in the Munich Beer Hall putsch of 1923; he promoted Hitler's rise to power in 1933; he founded the Gestapo in 1933 and the concentration camps in 1934; and he created the German Luftwaffe, making it an instrument for aggressive war and using it to destroy other countries. As Plenipotentiary for the Four-Year Plan and chairman of the Ministerial Council for Defense, Goering became the Czar of German economy and administration and eventually the executive manager of the entire conspiracy. The following list, the correctness of which has been certified by Goering and his attorney (2836-PS) is a partial statement of positions and offices held by him from 1922 to 1945: 1. Party member (1922-1945). 2. Supreme Leader of the SA (1923-November 1923). 3. Member of the Reichstag (1928). 4. President of the Reichstag (1932). 5. Prussian Minister of the Interior (1933-34). 6. Prussian Prime Minister (1933-45). 7. Prussian Chief of Secret State Police (1933-36). 8. Prussian Chief of State Council (1933-36). 9. Plenipotentiary for the Four-Year Plan (1936-45). 10. Reichsminister for Air (1933-45). 11. Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force (1935-45). 12. President of the Cabinet Council for the Defense of the Reich (1939-45). 13. Member of the Secret Cabinet Council (1938-45). 14. Reichsmarshall (1939-45). 15. Successor Designate to Hitler (1939-45). 16. Head of Reichswerke Hermann Goering (1938-45). 17. Head of Gestapo in Prussia (1933-34). Goering was a member of and assisted in the Nazi conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, in the following ways: A. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE. (1) Acquisition and Consolidation of Power in Germany. (a) Before 1933. Soon after joining the Party, Goering in 1923 was placed in command of the entire SA (2168-PS). In November 1923, he took part in the ill-fated attempt at Munich to gain control of the German State by force. In the encounter with the police, Goering was wounded and fled from
of Power in Germany. (a) Before 1933. Soon after joining the Party, Goering in 1923 was placed in command of the entire SA (2168-PS). In November 1923, he took part in the ill-fated attempt at Munich to gain control of the German State by force. In the encounter with the police, Goering was wounded and fled from Germany. (2532-PS) After his return, Goering became more than a commander of street fighters. He was designated Hitler's first political assistant. "The movement was conducted by the Fuehrer from Munich. But one man has to act for him in Berlin, while Gauleiter Goebbels stirs up the masses and makes them ripe for National Socialism, a man on whom he could rely unconditionally to the same extent as if he acted himself. And thus, Hermann Goering became the political deputy of Adolf Hitler." (3252-PS) Goering's official biographer, the Ministerial Dirgent Gritzbach, tells of his dealings with the Bruening government, his attempts to "break down the barrier" around the Reich President, von Hindenburg, and of his "coup" as Reichstag President in September 1932 in procuring a vote of nonconfidence against the Papen government just before the Reichstag could be dissolved (3252-PS). Goering says in his own book, Aufbau einer Nation: "The moment was unforgettable for me who have gone back and forth as representative so often between the Kaiserhof and the Wilhelmstrasse during the past year, when I hurried out to my car and could report to the questioning masses as the first one: 'Hitler has become Reich Chancellor.'" (3251-PS) Goebbels also gave him full measure of credit: "'This is surely Goering's happiest hour,' wrote Dr. Goebbels in his book Von Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei, and, quoting from it, said: that 'Goering prepared diplomatically and politically in a long lasting all hard struggle the basis for Hitler's rise." (3252-PS.) In a letter written in 1935, Hitler summarized Goering's contributions as follows: "My dear Goering: When in November 1923 the Party tried for the first time to conquer the power of the State, you as Commander of the SA created within an extraordinarily short time that instrument with which I could bear that struggle. Highest necessity had forced us to act, but a wise providence at that time denied that success. After receiving a
the Party tried for the first time to conquer the power of the State, you as Commander of the SA created within an extraordinarily short time that instrument with which I could bear that struggle. Highest necessity had forced us to act, but a wise providence at that time denied that success. After receiving a grave wound you again entered the ranks as soon as circumstances permitted as my most loyal comrade in the battle for power. You contributed essentially to creating the basis for the 30th of January. Therefore, at the end of a year of the National Socialist Revolution, I desire to thank you wholeheartedly, my dear Party Comrade Goering, for the great values which you have for the National Socialist Revolution and consequently, for the German people. In cordial friendship and grateful appreciation. Yours, Adolf Hitler." (3259-PS) Goering himself has boasted: "Numerous titles and honors have been bestowed on me during the past months, and still no title and no decoration could make me so proud, as the designation, given to me by the German people: "The most faithful paladin of our Fuehrer.' In that, my relationship to the Fuehrer finds expression. I followed him for over a decade with unreserved faith, and I will follow him with the same unconditional faith until my end." (3251-PS) (b) Prussia, 1933-36. Immediately after the 30th of January 1933, Goering was awarded the key post of acting Prussian Minister of the Interior, and shortly thereafter, that of Minister President of Prussia. In these capacities, he proceeded promptly to establish a regime of terror in Prussia designed to suppress all opposition to the Nazi program. His chief tool was the Prussian police, which remained under his jurisdiction until 1936. As early as February 1933, he ordered the entire police forces to render unqualified assistance to the para-military organizations supporting the new government, such as the SA and the SS, and to crush all political opponents with firearms, if necessary, regardless of the consequences. (Directive of 10 February 1933, Ministerialblatt fuer die Preussische innere Verwaltung 1933, p. 148; Directive of 17 February 1933, id, p. 169). Goering has frequently and proudly acknowledged his own personal responsibility
political opponents with firearms, if necessary, regardless of the consequences. (Directive of 10 February 1933, Ministerialblatt fuer die Preussische innere Verwaltung 1933, p. 148; Directive of 17 February 1933, id, p. 169). Goering has frequently and proudly acknowledged his own personal responsibility for the crimes committed pursuant to orders of this character: "I declared at that time before thousands of fellow Germans, each bullet which leaves the barrel of a police pistol now is my bullet. If one calls this murder, then I have murdered; I ordered all this, I back it up. I assume the responsibility, and I am not afraid to do so." (2324-PS; 3252-PS.) Soon after he became Prussian Minister President, Goering began to develop the Gestapo, or Secret State Police. To quote from his own book: "The most important thing for me was first, to get the instrument of power of the protective police and political police firmly in my hand. Here I undertook the first sweeping changes of personnel. Of the 32 available colonels of the protective police, I dismissed 22. Hundreds of officers and thousands of sergeants followed them in the course of the next months. New forces were procured, and everywhere, these forces were taken out of the large reserve pool of the SA and the SS. "For weeks, I personally worked on this transformation, and finally I created alone and from my own conviction and own thought the 'Secret State Police Office'. that instrument, feared so much by the enemies of the state, which above all has contributed so much, that today a Communist or Marxist danger in Germany or Prussia is hardly worth talking about anymore." (3251-PS) In a public address delivered on 11 December 1934, Goering boasted: "We were firmly determined after assumption of power to hit the Communists so that in Germany they would never recover from our blow. For that we do not require a Reichstag fire. That has been one of the most important points on our program. In the former Weimar Constitution the destruction of Communism was unthinkable. For the execution of these measures we needed the instrument of a through and through reliable, and of the highest degree powerful, police force. I have created this instrument through the reorganization of the field
on our program. In the former Weimar Constitution the destruction of Communism was unthinkable. For the execution of these measures we needed the instrument of a through and through reliable, and of the highest degree powerful, police force. I have created this instrument through the reorganization of the field police (Landespolizei) and the formation of a Secret State Police. These organizations will constitute a means for implanting fear in all enemies of the State, which a State needs if it wishes to defend itself for always". (3440-PS) On 26 April 1933 Goering signed the first law officially establishing the Secret State Police in Prussia (2104-PS). On 30 November 1933, Goering signed a law naming himself, as Prime Minister, Chief of the Prussian Secret State Police (2105-PS). He continued in this position until sometime in 1936, when Himmler secured control of all police in the Reich. Men and women taken into custody by the Gestapo were thrown, without judicial or other form of trial, into concentration camps, which had been established in Prussia as early as the spring of 1933. (3252-PS; L-83.) As explained by Goering in his own book: "Against the enemies of the State, we must proceed ruthlessly. It cannot be forgotten, that at the moment of our rise to power, according to the official election figures of March 1933, six million people still confess their sympathy for Marxism. * * * Therefore the concentration camps have been created, where we have first confined thousands of Communists and Social Democrat functionaries. * * *" (2344-PS) On 10 February 1936, Goering, as Prussian Minister President, signed a further basic law on the Prussian Secret State Police. Article 7 of this law provided: "Orders in matters of the Secret State Police are not subject to the review of the administrative courts". (2107-PS) Thus it was made quite clear by Goering's own law that those imprisoned in concentration camps without trial of any kind were to have no recourse to any court. On the same day Goering signed a decree for the execution of the foregoing law, which further acknowledged his responsibility for Prussian concentration camps. Its provisions included the following: "Art. 2 * * * (4) The Secret State Police Bureau administers the state concentration