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171)...... III 71 *054-PS Report to Reich ministry for Occupied Eastern Territories, 7 October 1942, concerning treatment of Ukrainian Specialists. (USA 198)...... III 90 *064-PS Bormann's letter to Rosenberg, 27 September 1940, enclosing letter from Gauleiter Florian criticizing churches and publications for soldiers. (USA 359)...... III 109 *070-PS Letter of Deputy Fuehrer to Rosenberg, 25 April 1941, on substitution of National Socialist mottos for morning prayers in schools. (USA 349)...... III 118 *072-PS Bormann letter to Rosenberg, 19 April 1941, concerning confiscation of property, especially of art treasures in the East. (USA 357)...... III 122 *084-PS Interdepartmental report of Ministry for Occupied Eastern Territories, 30 September 1942, concerning status of Eastern laborers. (USA 199)...... III 130 *089-PS Letter from Bormann to Rosenberg, 8 March 1940, instructing Amann not to issue further newsprint to confessional newspapers. (USA 360)...... III 147 *098-PS Bormann's letter to Rosenberg, 22 February 1940, urging creation of National Socialist Catechism, etc. to provide moral foundation for NS religion. (USA 350)...... III 152 *101-PS Letter from Hess' office signed Bormann to Rosenberg, 17 January 1940, concerning undesirability of religious literature for members of the Wehrmacht. (USA 361)...... III 160 *122-PS Bormann's letter to Rosenberg, 17 April 1939, enclosing copy of Minister of Education letter, 6 April 1939, on elimination of theological faculties in various universities. (USA 362)...... III 173 *199-PS Letter from Alfred Meyer to Sauckel, 11 July 1944, concerning forced labor of children. (USA 606)...... III 213 *212-PS Memorandum from Rosenberg file concerning instructions for treatment of Jews. (USA 272)...... III 222 *254-PS Letter from Raab to Reichminister for Occupied Eastern Territories, 7 June 1944, concerning burning of houses in Wassilkow district. (USA 188)...... III 231 *265-PS Memorandum of oral report by Lyser to Rosenberg, 30 June 1943, on situation in district Shitomir. (USA 191)...... III 234 *290-PS Letter from Rosenberg Ministry, 12 November 1943, concerning burning of houses in Mueller's district. (USA 189)...... III 240 *294-PS Top secret memorandum signed by Brautigam, 25 October 1942, concerning conditions in Russia. (USA 185)...... III 242
June 1943, on situation in district Shitomir. (USA 191)...... III 234 *290-PS Letter from Rosenberg Ministry, 12 November 1943, concerning burning of houses in Mueller's district. (USA 189)...... III 240 *294-PS Top secret memorandum signed by Brautigam, 25 October 1942, concerning conditions in Russia. (USA 185)...... III 242 *327-PS Letter of Rosenberg to Bormann, 17 October 1944, concerning liquidation of property in Eastern Occupied Territories. (USA 338)...... III 257 342-PS Decree, 13 October 1941, concerning confiscation of Jewish property...... III 264 *789-PS Speech of the Fuehrer at a conference, 23 November 1939, to which all Supreme Commanders were ordered. (USA 23)...... III 572 *865-PS Correspondence between Keitel, Rosenberg and Lammers, April 1941, concerning appointment of Jodl and Warlimont as OKW representatives with Rosenberg. (USA 143)...... III 621 *957-PS Rosenberg's letter to Ribbentrop, 24 February 1940. (GB 139)...... III 641 1015-B-PS Report on activities of Special Staff for Pictorial Art, October 1940 to July 1944...... III 666 *1017-PS Memorandum entitled "Memorial No. 1 regarding USSR", 2 April 1941, found in Rosenberg's "Russia File". (USA 142)...... III 674 *1024-PS Memorandum, 29 April 1941, concerning organization for handling problems in the Eastern Territories. (USA 278)...... III 685 *1028-PS Memorandum from Rosenberg file, 7 May 1941, concerning instructions for a Reichkommissar in the Ukraine. (USA 273)...... III 690 *1029-PS Paper entitled "Instructions for a Reich Commissar in the Baltic States", 8 May 1941, found in Rosenberg's "Russia File". (USA 145)...... III 690 *1030-PS General instructions for all Reich Commissars in the Occupied Eastern Territories, 8 May 1941, found in Rosenberg file. (USA 144)...... III 692 *1039-PS Report concerning preparatory work regarding problems in Eastern Territories, 28 June 1941, found in Rosenberg's "Russia File". (USA 146)...... III 695 *1056-PS Directives concerning administration of Occupied Eastern Territories (Brown Folder). (USA 605)...... III 701 *1058-PS Excerpt from a speech, 20 June 1941, by Rosenberg before people most intimately concerned with Eastern Problem, found in his "Russia File". (USA 147)...... III 716 *1104-PS Memorandum, 21 November 1941,
*1056-PS Directives concerning administration of Occupied Eastern Territories (Brown Folder). (USA 605)...... III 701 *1058-PS Excerpt from a speech, 20 June 1941, by Rosenberg before people most intimately concerned with Eastern Problem, found in his "Russia File". (USA 147)...... III 716 *1104-PS Memorandum, 21 November 1941, enclosing copies of report concerning anti-Jewish action in Minsk. (USA 483)...... III 783 1188-PS Decree of Fuehrer concerning economy in newly Occupied Eastern Territories, 20 May 1941, and attached comment...... III 832 *1199-PS Conference memorandum, 4 July 1941, concerning utilization of Soviet PW's for forced labor in Reich. (USA 604)...... III 840 *1752-PS Preparation for International Anti-Jewish Congress, 15 June 1944. (GB 159)...... IV 280 *1997-PS Decree of the Fuehrer, 17 July 1941, concerning administration of Newly Occupied Eastern Territories. (USA 319)...... IV 634 *2319-PS Extracts from Organization Book of NSDAP, 4th edition, 1937. (USA 602)...... IV 1009 *2349-PS Extracts from "The Myth of 20th Century" by Alfred Rosenberg, 1941. (USA 352)...... IV 1069 *2433-PS Extracts from "Nature, Foundation and Aims of NSDAP" by Rosenberg, 1934. (USA 596)...... V 93 *2523-PS Account of conversations between Goering and Bunjes. (USA 783)...... V 258 *2777-PS Article: Space Policy by Rosenberg, published in National Socialist Monthly, May 1932, p. 199. (USA 594)...... V 418 *2886-PS Excerpt from "The Work of Alfred Rosenberg"-a bibliography. (USA 591)...... V 551 *2889-PS The Jew Question as World Problem, speech by Rosenberg, published in Voelkischer Beobachter, Munich edition, 29 March 1941. (USA 595)...... V 554 2891-PS Extracts from Rosenberg's "Myth of the 20th Century"...... V 558 *3000-PS Report, from Chief of Main Office III with the High Command in Minsk to Reicke, 28 June 1943, on CHAPTER XVI Document Description Vol. Page experiences in political and economic problems in the East, particularly White Ruthenia. (USA 192)...... V 726 *3054-PS "The Nazi Plan", script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167)....... V 801 *3428-PS Letter from Kube, 31 July 1942, concerning combatting of Partisans and action against Jews in White Ruthenia. (USA 827)....... VI 131 *3528-PS Extract concerning NSDAP community
(USA 192)...... V 726 *3054-PS "The Nazi Plan", script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167)....... V 801 *3428-PS Letter from Kube, 31 July 1942, concerning combatting of Partisans and action against Jews in White Ruthenia. (USA 827)....... VI 131 *3528-PS Extract concerning NSDAP community schools, from The Third Reich, 1934. (USA 599)......... VI 213 *3529-PS Extract concerning Adolf Hitler Schools, from Documents of German Politics. (USA 365)...... VI 214 *3530-PS Extract containing biographical data of Alfred Rosenberg, from The German Leader Lexicon, 1934-35. (USA 593)........ VI 214 *3531-PS Extract from the National Socialist Yearbook, 1938, concerning Rosenberg's office for ideological training. (USA 597)........ VI 215 *3532-PS Extract from The Educational letter, March 1934, concerning importance of ideological training. (USA 598)......... VI 216 *3552-PS Education in the Ordensburg, from The Third Reich. (USA 577)......... VI 240 *3553-PS Extract from The Myth of the 20th Century. (USA 352)......... VI 240 *3554-PS Extracts from The Myth of the 20th Century, published in Book News, No. 11, November 1942. (USA 601)......... VI 242 *3557-PS Extract from Dates in History of NSDAP, 1939, pp.4-5. (USA 592)......... VI 243 *3559-PS Award of German National Prize, from Alfred Rosenberg's The Man and His Work. (USA 600)......... VI 243 3766-PS Report prepared by the German Army in France 1942 concerning removal of French art objects through the German Embassy and the Einsatzstab Rosenberg in France......... VI 646 *3780-PS Record of Fuehrer's conference with Oshima, 27 May 1944, concerning Japanese treatment of American terror pilots. (GB 293)......... VI 655 *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 *EC-347 Directives for operation of the Economy in Occupied Eastern Territories. (USA 320)........ VII 421 *L-188 Report of 8 August 1944, on confiscation up to 31 July 1944. (USA 386)........... VII 1022 *L-221 Bormann report on conference of 16 July 1941,
and "Weseruebung". (GB 81)......... VI 887 *EC-347 Directives for operation of the Economy in Occupied Eastern Territories. (USA 320)........ VII 421 *L-188 Report of 8 August 1944, on confiscation up to 31 July 1944. (USA 386)........... VII 1022 *L-221 Bormann report on conference of 16 July 1941, concerning treatment of Eastern populations and territories. (USA 317)...... 1086 *M-153 Year Book of the Ausland (Foreign) organization of the NSDAP for 1942. (GB 284)........... VIII 48 *M-156 Year book of the Ausland (Foreign) Organization of the NSDAP for 1942. (GB 284)......... VIII 49 *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 *Chart No.1 National Socialist German Workers' Party. (2903-PS; USA 2)......... VIII 770 *Chart No.17 Foreign Organization of the NSDAP. (2354-PS; USA 430).............. End of VIII Chapter XVI Part 6 Contents Chapter XVI Part 8
8. HANS FRANK A. FRANK HELD A POSITION OF LEADERSHIP IN THE NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHE DEUTSCHE ARBEITERPARTEI (NSDAP) AND IN THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT. Frank held the following positions in the NSDAP and the German Government: (1) Member of NSDAP, 1928-1945. (2) Member of the Reichstag, 1930-1945. (3) Reich Minister Without portfolio, 1934-1945. (4) Reich Commissar for the Coordination of the State Administration of Justice and for Reformation of the Law (Reichskommisar fuer die Gleichschaltung der Justiz in der Landern und fuer Erneuerung der Rechsordnung), April 1933-December 1934, in the Ministry of Justice. (5) President, International Chamber of Law, 1941-42. (6) President, Academy of German Law (Praesident der Akademie fuer Deutsches Recht), 1933-1942. (7) Governor-General of the Occupied Polish Territories (General Gouverneur fuer die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), October 1939-1945. (8) Bavarian State Minister of Justice, March 1933-December 1934. (9) Reichsleiter of NSDAP, 1933-1942. (10) Leader of the National Socialist Lawyers League (Bund Nationalsozialistischer deutscher Juristen), 1933-1942. (11) Editor or author of the following between 1930 and 1942: (a) "Deutsches Recht" (Magazine of National Socialist Jurist League) (b) Magazine of the Academy of German Law. (c) National Socialist Handbook for Law and Legislation. (2979-PS) B. FRANK PROMOTED THE SEIZURE OF POWER BY THE NAZI CONSPIRATORS. AS THE LEADING NAZI JURIST, HE FURTHERED THE REALIZATION OF THE CONSPIRATORS' PROGRAM IN THE FIELD OF LAW. Frank himself described his role in the Nazi struggle for power in the following words in August 1942: "I have since 1920 continually dedicated my work to the NSDAP. * * * As national Socialist i was a participant in the events of November 1923, for which I received the Blutorden. After the resurrection of the movement in the year 1925, my real greater activity in the movement began, which made me, first gradually, later almost exclusively, the legal advisor of the Fuehrer and of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. I thus was the representative of legal interests of the growing Third Reich in a legal ideological as well as practical legal way. * * * The culmination of this work I see in the big Leipzig Army Trial in which I succeeded in having the Fuehrer
Fuehrer and of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. I thus was the representative of legal interests of the growing Third Reich in a legal ideological as well as practical legal way. * * * The culmination of this work I see in the big Leipzig Army Trial in which I succeeded in having the Fuehrer admitted to the famous oath of legality, a circumstance which gave the Movement the legal grounds to expand generously. The Fuehrer indeed recognized this achievement and in 1926 made me leader of the National Socialist Lawyers League; in 1929 Reich Leader of the Reich Legal Office of the NSDAP; in 1933 Bavarian Minister of Justice; in the same year Reich commissioner of Justice; in 1934 President of the Academy of German Law founded by me; in December 1934 Reich Minister Without Portfolio; and in 1939 I was finally appointed to Governor general for the occupied Polish territories. "So I was, am and will remain the representative jurist of the struggle period of National Socialism. * * * "I profess myself now, and always, as a National Socialist and a faithful follower of the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, whom I have now served since 1919." (2233-X-PS) Frank's diary, from which this quotation is taken, to which frequent reference is made in this section, is the official journal, kept at Frank's direction, of his administration in the General Government. It consists of 38 volumes in which are recorded the official texts of speeches, transcripts of conferences, minutes of cabinet sessions, etc. The volumes are divided into several concurrent series (Tagebuch, Abteilungsleitersitzungen etc.) which cover the several aspects of the official business of the administration. As the "representative jurist of the struggle period of National Socialism" and in the various juridical capacities listed in the preceding section, Frank was between 1933 and 1939 the most prominent policy-maker in the field of German legal theory. In 1934 Frank founded the Academy of German Law, of which he was president until 1942. The statute defining the functions of the Academy conferred on it wide power to coordinate juridical policies: "It is the task of the Academy for German Law to further the rejuvenation of the Law in Germany.
legal theory. In 1934 Frank founded the Academy of German Law, of which he was president until 1942. The statute defining the functions of the Academy conferred on it wide power to coordinate juridical policies: "It is the task of the Academy for German Law to further the rejuvenation of the Law in Germany. Closely connected with the agencies competent for legislation, it shall further the realization of the National Socialist Program in the realm of Law. This task shall be carried out through well-fixed scientific methods. "The Academy's task shall cover primarily: "1. The composition, the initiation, judging and preparing of drafts of law. "2. The collaboration in rejuvenating and unifying the training in jurisprudence and political science. "3. The editing and supporting of scientific publications. "4. The financial assistance for research and work in specific fields of Law and Political Economy. "5. The organization of scientific meetings and the organization of courses. "6. The cultivation of connections to similar institutions in foreign countries". (1391-PS) What Frank as policy-maker in the field of law conceived as his task he explained in a radio address on 20 March 1934: "The first task was that of establishing a unified German State. It was an outstanding historical and juristic-political accomplishment on the part of our Fuehrer that he reached boldly into the development of history and thereby eliminated the sovereignty of the various German states.... "The second fundamental law of the Hitler Reich is racial legislation. The National Socialists were the first ones in the entire history of human law to elevate the concept of race to the status of a legal term. The German nation, unified racially and nationally, will in the future be legally protected against any further disintegration of the German race stock.... "The sixth fundamental law was the legal elimination of those political organizations which within the state, during the period of the reconstruction of the people and the Reich, were once able to place their selfish aims ahead of the common good of the nation. This elimination has taken place entirely legally. It is not the coming to the fore of despotic tendencies but it was the
organizations which within the state, during the period of the reconstruction of the people and the Reich, were once able to place their selfish aims ahead of the common good of the nation. This elimination has taken place entirely legally. It is not the coming to the fore of despotic tendencies but it was the necessary legal consequence of a clear political result, of the 14 years' struggle of the NSDAP. "In accordance with these unified legal aims in all spheres, particular efforts have for months now been made as regards the work of the great reform of the entire field of German law. * * *" (2536-PS) Frank concluded his remarks by pointing out that the outward forms of legality could be preserved in building the Nazi state: "As a leader of the German Jurists I am convinced that together with all strata of the German people, we shall be able to construct the legal state of Adolf Hitler in every respect and to such an extent that no one in the world will at any time be able to attack this legal state as regards its laws". (2536-PS) In his speech at the Congress of the Reich Group of University Professors of the National Socialist Jurists' League on 3 October 1936, Frank explained the necessity for excluding Jews from the legal field: "* * * this topic embraces all that which in our opinion will contribute to establishing National Socialism in the field of jurisprudence, thus eliminating any alien racial spirit therefrom. * * * "We National Socialists have started with anti-Semitism in our fight to free the German people, to re-establish a German Reich and to build our entire German spiritual, cultural and social life on the indestructible foundation of our race. We started a gigantic battle in 1919 * * * It took all the self-confidence of German manhood to withstand and to triumph-in this fight to substitute the German spirit for Jewish corruption over the concerted attacks of powerful world groups of which Jewry is a representative. "Particularly we National Socialist Jurists have a mission of our own to accomplish in this battle. We construct German law on the foundations of old and vital elements of the German people. * * * "It is so obvious that it hardly needs mentioning that any participation whatsoever of the
"Particularly we National Socialist Jurists have a mission of our own to accomplish in this battle. We construct German law on the foundations of old and vital elements of the German people. * * * "It is so obvious that it hardly needs mentioning that any participation whatsoever of the Jew in German law-be it in a creative, interpretative, educational or critical capacity-is impossible. The elimination of the Jews from German jurisprudence is in no way due to hatred or envy but to the understanding that the influence of the Jew on German life is essentially a pernicious and harmful one and that in the interests of the German people and to protect its future an unequivocal boundary must be drawn between us and the Jews." (2536-PS) As the leading Nazi jurist, Frank accepted and promoted the system of concentration camps and of arrest without warrant. In an article on "Legislation and Judiciary in the Third Reich" published in the Journal of the Academy of German Law in 1936, Frank explained: "To the world we are blamed again and again because of the concentration camps. We are asked, 'Why do you arrest without a warrant of arrest?' I say, put yourselves into the position of our nation. Don't forget that the very great and still untouched world of Bolshevism cannot forget that we have made final victory for them impossible in Europe, right here on German soil." (2533-PS) Just as the other conspirators mobilized the military, economic, and diplomatic resources of Germany for war, Frank, in the field of legal policy, geared the German juridical machine for a war of aggression, which, as he explained in 1942 to the NSDAP District Standortsfuehrung Galicia at a mass meeting in Lemberg, had for its purpose: "* * * to expand the living space for our people in a natural manner". (2233-S-PS) Frank was proud of this accomplishment. In a speech before the Academy of German Law in November 1939, he stated: "Today we are proud to have formulated our legal principles from the very beginning in such a way that they need not be changed in the case of war. For the rule, that right is that which is useful to the nation, and wrong is that which harms it, which stood at the beginning of our legal work, and which established this
proud to have formulated our legal principles from the very beginning in such a way that they need not be changed in the case of war. For the rule, that right is that which is useful to the nation, and wrong is that which harms it, which stood at the beginning of our legal work, and which established this collective term of nation as the only standard of value of the law-this rule dominates also the law of these times." (3445-PS) C. THROUGH USE OF HIS OFFICE AS GOVERNOR GENERAL, FRANK PARTICIPATED IN THE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN THE TERRITORY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT OF POLAND. Certain of the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi conspirators, and in particular by Frank in the general government of Poland are discussed in Chapter X on the Slave Labor Program, Chapter XI on Concentration Camps, Chapter XII on Persecution of the Jews, and Chapter XIII on Germanization and Spoliation. This section will attempt to trace Frank's special responsibility, as Governor General, for the policies underlying the crimes committed in the General Government during the period of his administration. Frank was appointed Governor General of the occupied Polish Territories by a Hitler decree dated 12 October 1939. The scope of his executive power was defined as follows: "Section 1. The territories occupied by German troops shall be subject to the authority of the Governor General of the occupied Polish territories, Except insofar as they are incorporated within the German Reich. "Section 2. (1) I appoint Reich Minister Dr. Frank as Governor General of the occupied Polish territories. (2) As Deputy Governor General I appoint Reich Minister Dr. Seyss-Inquart. "Section 3. (1) The Governor General shall be directly responsible to me. (2) All branches of the administration shall be directed by the Governor General * * *." (2537-PS) The jurisdiction and functions of Frank in the General Government are described by him in several passages of his diary. For example at a meeting of Department Heads of the General Government on 8 March 1940 in the Bergakademie, Frank clarified his status as follows: "One thing is certain. The authority of