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Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11)

Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11) is a collection of documentary evidence written in the mid-20th century. Compiled for use by Allied prosecutors at the International Military Tribunal, it assembles translated Nazi laws, decrees, internal memoranda, speeches, and treaties to substantiate the regime’s systematic persecution, economic plunder, and aggressive war planning. Readers should expect primary-source materials on anti-Jewish measures, extraordinary police powers, occupation arrangements and satellite-state control, youth indoctrination, and the exploitation of labor and assets. The opening of this volume sets out its scope and then presents translations of key documents that codified and enabled Nazi policy. It first lays out a chain of anti-Jewish enactments—the Nuremberg citizenship definitions, forced “Aryanization” and trusteeships over property, a collective billion-mark fine, bans and restrictions on public presence and tenancy, and later police jurisdiction and posthumous confiscation—bearing the authority of leaders such as Hitler, Goering, Funk, Frick, and Heydrich. Further items show repression and control beyond Germany: RSHA statistics on seized Weimar-era figures, decrees empowering Himmler to act beyond normal legal limits in Austria and the Sudetenland, and a “protection” treaty subordinating Slovakia to German military needs. Economic and military preparation appears in minutes on immobilizing Dutch and Belgian securities, a memo favoring conquest over autarky for resources, and a Speer excerpt redirecting POW and German labor to armaments. The section also samples ideological and organizational sources on the Hitler Youth—asserting total leadership, absorbing Protestant youth, confronting Catholic groups, and defining a cadre tier—before closing with a brief biographical note on Admiral Doenitz. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
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
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EBook-No. 78130
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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