page_title: Hans Globke
section_title: During the war
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Globke / Career during National Socialism / During the war
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Pressekonferenz zu Globke in Prag und Berlin Auf einer Pressekonferenz des Verbandes antifaschistischer Widerstandskämpfer unterbreitete der Historiker Dr. Kral der Öffentlichkeit Dokumente über die Vergangenheit des nazistischen Judenmörders und heutigen Bonner Staatssekretärs Globke, die seine Verantwortung für Naziverbrechen gegen das tschechoslowakische Volk beweisen.- Auf einer internationalen Pressekonferenz in Berlin am gleichen Tage übergab der Außerordentliche und Bevollmächtigte Botschafter der CSSR in der DDR, Otto Klicka, der Öffentlichkeit neues belastendes Material gegen Globke. UBz: Auf den Pressekonferenzen wurden der Öffentlichkeit Dokumente übergeben, die Globkes faschistische Vergangenheit eindeutig beweisen. Dazu gehört u.a. dieses Foto, das Globke (2. Reihe Mitte) in Bratislava zeigt. Er weilte im September 1941 in der Slowakei und bereitete zusammen mit Nazi-Innenminister Frick (1. Reihe 3.v. links) die Einführung des berüchtigten Judenkodexes vor.
context_page_description: Hans Josef Maria Globke was a German lawyer, high-ranking civil servant and politician who was Under-Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery in West Germany from 28 October 1953 to 15 October 1963. During World War II, Globke, a Ministerialdirigent in the Office for Jewish Affairs in the Ministry of the Interior, wrote a legal annotation on the anti-semitic Nuremberg Race Laws that did not express any objection to the discrimination against Jews, and placed the Nazi Party on a firmer legal ground, setting the path to The Holocaust. Globke later had a controversial career as Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the West German Chancellery. In this role he was responsible for running the Chancellery, recommending the people who were appointed to roles in the government, coordinating the government's work, and for the establishment and oversight of the West German intelligence service and for all matters of national security.
  Globke became a powerful éminence grise of the West German government, and was widely regarded as one of most influential public officials in the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
context_section_description: At the beginning of the war, Globke was responsible for the new German imperial borders in the West that were the responsibility of the Reich Ministry of the Interior. He made several trips to the conquered territories. The historian Peter Schöttler suspected that Globke was probably the author of a memorandum to Hitler in June 1940 discussing the idea of State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart proposing a far-reaching annexation of the East French and Belgian territories, which would have involved the deportation of about 5 million people.
  At the beginning of September 1941, Globke accompanied Interior Minister Frick and State Secretary Stuckart on an official visit to Slovakia, which at that time was a client state of the German Reich. Immediately following this visit, the government of Slovakia announced the introduction of the so-called Jewish Code, which provided the legal basis for the later expropriations and deportations of Slovak Jews. In 1961, Globke denied there was any connection between the two events and the allegation that he had participated in the creation of the Code. Clear evidence for it was never verified. According to CIA documents, Globke was possibly also responsible for the deportation of 20,000 Jews from Northern Greece to Nazi extermination camps in Poland.
  Globke submitted a final application for Nazi Party membership, but the application was rejected in 1943, again due to his former affiliation to the Centre Party.
  On the other hand, Globke maintained contacts with military and civilian resistance groups. He was the informant of the Berlin Bishop Konrad von Preysing and had knowledge of the coup preparations by the opponents of Hitler Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Ludwig Beck. According to reports by Jakob Kaiser and Otto Lenz, in the event that the attempt to overthrow the National Socialist regime had succeeded, Globke was earmarked for a senior ministerial post in an imperial government formed by Goerdeler. However, no evidence ever emerged to support Globke's later assertion that the National Socialists wanted to arrest him in 1945, but were prevented by the advance of the Allies.
caption: Globke and Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick in Bratislava, Slovak State, September 1941
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