Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11)
Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11) is a government documentary compilation written in the mid-20th century. It presents translated Nazi laws, decrees, speeches, and internal memoranda prepared for the Nuremberg prosecution, documenting the regime’s systematic persecution of Jews, suppression of political opponents, indoctrination and militarization (notably via the Hitler Youth), economic exploitation of occupied territories, and the legal scaffolding of expansion and aggression. The opening of the volume presents a
sequence of translated documents that establish key strands of Nazi policy: anti-Jewish measures that expropriate property, levy collective fines, restrict movement and housing, redefine citizenship, and even confiscate estates after death. It then shows repression of dissent (an RSHA roundup list), mobilization for war production (Speer on diverting labor and POWs to armaments), and the extension of extraordinary police powers to Himmler in annexed regions, alongside a “protection” treaty that places Slovakia under German military and foreign-policy control. Further documents record plans to exploit Belgian and Dutch capital in Southeastern Europe and a memo urging conquest of resource areas over costly autarky. Substantial excerpts from Baldur von Schirach’s The Hitler Youth and a 1939 execution order detail the movement’s totalizing control over German youth, its absorption of rival groups, conflicts with churches, and its formal linkage to the Nazi Party, before closing with a brief biographical sketch framing Admiral Dönitz’s naval focus. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality |
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| Title | Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11) |
| Original Publication | Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1946. |
| Credits | Carla Foust, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | KZ: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: Law of nations |
| LoC Class | D731: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War II (1939-1945) |
| Subject | Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 |
| Subject | War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg |
| Subject | World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany |
| Subject | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities |
| Subject | Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78130 |
| Release Date | Mar 7, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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