Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11)
"Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11) is a government documentary compendium written in the mid-20th century. Assembled for use at the Nuremberg trials, it collects translated Nazi decrees, treaties, speeches, memoranda, and administrative records. The volume’s likely focus is to document the regime’s systematic persecution, economic exploitation, militarization, and expansionism through primary-source evidence. The opening of the volume frames it as an official evidentiary collection and then reproduces Nazi measures
chiefly from the late 1930s to early 1940s. A run of decrees targets Jews with forced sales and trusteeship of businesses and property, compulsory deposit of securities, bans on precious metals, a collective financial levy, movement and public-appearance restrictions, tenancy expulsions, and even post‑mortem confiscation—alongside legal definitions excluding Jews from citizenship and office. Other items extend SS/police authority in annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, impose a “protection” treaty that subordinates Slovakia’s defense and foreign policy to Germany, and outline moves to immobilize Belgian and Dutch capital abroad for German economic aims. War-economy records show a shift from costly autarky to conquering resource areas, the redirection of labor and prisoners of war to armaments, and orders to boost mining and heavy machinery. Extensive excerpts on the Hitler Youth assert its monopoly over extra‑school youth education (absorbing Protestant groups, contesting Catholic leagues), emphasize discipline and leadership doctrine, describe outreach to ethnic Germans abroad, and codify its legal standing; the section closes with a laudatory biographical note on Admiral Dönitz. (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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