“I was acquainted with Dr. Goebbels since 1928. Apparently he

had taken a liking to me, besides the fact that in my press

activities I had always treated the National Socialists in a

friendly way until 1931. Already before 1933, Goebbels, who was

the editor of the ‘_Attack_’ [“_Der Angriff_”] a Nazi newspaper,

had frequently made flattering remarks about the form and

content of my work, which I did as contributor of many

‘National’ newspapers and periodicals, among which were also

reactionary papers and periodicals.” (_3469-PS_)

(1) _Establishment of complete Nazi control over press and radio._ At

the first Goebbels-Fritzsche discussion in early April 1933, Goebbels

informed Fritzsche of his decision to place the Wireless News Service

within the Propaganda Ministry as of 1 May 1933. He suggested that

Fritzsche make certain rearrangements in the personnel so as to remove

Jews and other persons who did not support the NSDAP. Fritzsche debated

with Goebbels concerning some of these steps. During this period

Fritzsche made some effort to place Jews in other jobs.

In a second conference with Goebbels shortly thereafter, Fritzsche

informed Goebbels about the steps he had taken in reorganizing the

Wireless News Service. Goebbels thereupon informed Fritzsche that he

would like to have him reorganize and modernize the entire news services

of Germany within the controls of the Propaganda Ministry. On 17 March

1933, approximately two months before this time, the Propaganda Ministry

had been created by decree. (_2029-PS_) Fritzsche was intrigued by the

Goebbels offer. He proceeded to conclude the Goebbels-inspired

reorganization of the Wireless News Service and, on 1 May 1933, together

with the remaining members of his staff, he joined the Propaganda

Ministry. On this same day he joined the NSDAP and took the customary

oath of unconditional loyalty to the Fuehrer (_3469-PS_).

From this time on, whatever reservations Fritzsche may have had, either

then or later, to the course of events under the Nazis, Fritzsche was

completely within the Nazi camp. For the next 13 years he assisted in

creating and in using the propaganda devices which the conspirators

successfully employed in each of the principal phases of the conspiracy.

From 1933 until 1942 Fritzsche held one or more positions within the

German Press Division. For four years, from 1938 to 1942—the period

when the Nazis undertook military invasions of neighboring countries—he

headed this Division. By virtue of its functions, the German Press

Division became an important and unique instrument of the Nazi

conspirators, not only in dominating the minds and psychology of

Germans, but also as an instrument of foreign policy and psychological

warfare against other nations. Thus, the already broad jurisdiction of

the Propaganda Ministry was extended as follows by a Hitler decree of 30

June 1933:

“The Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda has

jurisdiction over the whole field of spiritual indoctrination of

the nation, of propagandizing the State, of cultural and

economic propaganda, of enlightenment of the public at home and

abroad. Furthermore, he is in charge of the administration of

all institutions serving those purposes.” (_2030-PS_)

An exposition of the general functions of the German Press Division of

the Propaganda Ministry is contained in an excerpt from a book by George

Wilhelm Mueller, a Ministerial Director in the Propaganda Ministry.

(_2434-PS_) Paragraphs 14, 15 and 16 of Fritzsche’s affidavit contain an

exposition of the functions of the German Press Division, a description

which confirms and adds to the exposition in Mueller’s book. Concerning

the German Press Division, Fritzsche’s affidavit (_3469-PS_) states:

“During the whole period from 1933 to 1945 it was the task of

the German Press Division to supervise the entire domestic press

and to provide it with directives by which this division became

an efficient instrument in the hands of the German State

leadership. More than 2,300 German daily newspapers were subject

to this control. The aim of this supervision and control, in the

first years following 1933, was to change basically the

conditions existing in the press before the seizure of power.

That meant the coordination into the New Order of those

newspapers and periodicals which were in the service of

capitalistic special interests or party politics. While the

administrative functions, wherever possible, were exercised by

the professional associations and the Reich Press Chamber, the

political leadership of the German press was entrusted to the

German Press Division. The head of the German Press Division

held daily press conferences in the Ministry for the

representatives of all German newspapers. Hereby all

instructions were given to the representatives of the press.

These instructions were transmitted daily, almost without

exception, and mostly by telephone, from headquarters by Dr.

Otto Dietrich, Reich Press Chief, in a fixed statement, the

so-called ‘Daily Parole of the Reich Press Chief.’ Before the

statement was fixed the head of the German Press Division

submitted to him—Dietrich—the current press wishes expressed

by Dr. Goebbels and by other Ministries. This was the case

especially with the wishes of the Foreign Office, about which

Dr. Dietrich always wanted to make decisions personally or

through his representatives at the headquarters, Helmut

Suendermann and chief editor Lorenz. The practical use of the

general directions in detail was thus left entirely to the

individual work of the individual editor. Therefore, it is by no

means true that the newspapers and periodicals were a monopoly

of the German Press Division or that essays and leading articles

through it had to be submitted to the Ministry. Even in war

times this happened in exceptional cases only. The less

important newspapers and periodicals which were not represented

at the daily press conferences received their information in a

different way—by providing them either with ready-made articles

and reports, or with a confidential printed instruction. The

publications of all other official agencies were directed and

coordinated likewise by the German Press Division. To enable the

periodicals to get acquainted with the daily political problems

of newspapers and to discuss these problems in greater detail,

the _Informationskorrespondenz_ was issued especially for

periodicals. Later on it was taken over by the Periodical Press

Division. The German Press Division likewise was in charge of

pictorial reporting in so far as it directed the employment of

pictorial reporters at important events. In this way, and

conditioned by the current political situation, the entire

German Press was made a permanent instrument of the Propaganda

Ministry by the German Press Division. Thereby, the entire

German Press was subordinate to the political aims of the

Government. This was exemplified by the timely measuring and the

emphatic presentation of such press polemics as appeared to be

most useful, as shown for instance in the following themes: the

class struggle of the system era; the leadership principle and

the authoritarian state; the party and interest politics of the

system era; the Jewish problem; the conspiracy of World Jewry;

the Bolshevistic danger; the plutocratic Democracy abroad; the

race problem generally; the church; the economic misery abroad;

the foreign policy; and living space [_lebensraum_].”

(_3469-PS_)

This description of Fritzsche’s establishes clearly that the German

Press Division was the instrument for subordinating the entire German

press to the political aims of the Nazi Government.

Fritzsche’s early activities within the German Press Division on behalf

of the conspirators are described in his affidavit (_3469-PS_). In a

conference with Goebbels the following occurred:

“At this time Dr. Goebbels suggested to me, as a specialist on

news technique, the establishment and direction of a section

‘News,’ within the Press Division of his Ministry, in order to

organize fully and to modernize the German news agencies. In

executing this assignment given to me by Dr. Goebbels I took for

my field the entire news field for the German Press and the

radio in accordance with the directions given by the Propaganda

Ministry, at first with the exception of the DNB, German News

Agency.” (_3469-PS_)

The reason why the DNB was excepted from Fritzsche’s field at this time

is that it did not come into existence until 1934.

Later on in his affidavit Fritzsche mentions the sizeable funds put at

his disposal in building up the Nazi news services. Altogether, the

German news agencies received a ten-fold increase in their budget from

the Reich, an increase from 400,000 to 4,000,000 marks. Fritzsche

himself selected and employed the Chief Editor for the Transocean News

Agency and also for the Europa Press. Fritzsche states that some of the

“* * * directions of the Propaganda Ministry which I had to

follow were * * * increase of German news copy abroad at any

cost * * * spreading of favorable news on the internal

construction and peaceful intentions of the National Socialistic

System. * * *” (_3469-PS_)

About the summer of 1934 Funk, then Reich Press Chief, achieved the

fusion of the two most important domestic news agencies, the Wolff

Telegraph Agency and the Telegraph Union, and thus formed the official

German news agency known as DNB. Although Fritzsche held no position

with DNB at any time, nevertheless as head of the news section of the

German Press Division, Fritzsche’s duties gave him official jurisdiction

over the DNB, which was the official domestic news agency of the Reich

after 1934. Fritzsche admits that he coordinated the work of the various

foreign news agencies

“within the inland Europe and overseas foreign countries with

each other and in relationship to DNB” (_3469-PS_).

The Wireless News Service was headed by Fritzsche from 1930 to 1937.

After January 1933 the Wireless News Service was the official instrument

of the Nazi government in spreading news over the radio. During the same

time that Fritzsche headed the Wireless News Service, he personally made

radio broadcasts to the German people. These broadcasts were naturally

subject to the controls of the Propaganda Ministry and reflected its

purposes. The influence of Fritzsche’s broadcasts to the German people,

during this period of consolidation of control by the Nazi conspirators,

is all the more important since Fritzsche was concurrently head of the

Wireless News Service, and thus in control of all radio news.

(2) _Use of propaganda to prepare the way for aggressions_. The use made

by the Nazi conspirators of psychological warfare is well known. Before

each major aggression, with some few exceptions based on expediency,

they initiated a press campaign calculated to weaken their victims and

to prepare the German people psychologically for the attack. They used

the press, after their earlier conquests, as a means for further

influencing foreign politics and in maneuvering for the next following

aggression.

By the time of the occupation of the Sudetenland on 1 October 1938,

Fritzsche had become deputy head of the entire German Press Division.

Fritzsche states that the role of German propaganda before the Munich

Agreement on the Sudetenland was directed by his immediate chief,

Berndt, head of the German Press Division. Fritzsche describes Berndt’s

propaganda as follows:

“He exaggerated minor events very strongly, used sometimes old

episodes as new—and there even came complaints from the

Sudetenland itself that much of the news reported by the German

press was untrustworthy. As a matter of fact, after the great

foreign political success at Munich in September 1938, there

came a noticeable crisis in confidence of the German people in

the trustworthiness of its press. This was one reason for the

recalling of Berndt, in December 1938 after the conclusion of

the Sudeten action and for my appointment as head of the German

Press Division. Beyond this, Berndt, by his admittedly

successful but still primitive military-like orders to the

German Press, had lost the confidence of the German editors.”

(_3469-PS_)

Fritzsche was accordingly made head of the German Press Division in

place of Berndt. Between December 1938 and 1942, Fritzsche, as head of

the German Press Division, personally gave to the representatives of the

principal German newspapers the “daily parole of the Reich Press Chief.”

During this period he was the principal conspirator directly concerned

with the manipulations of the press.

The first important foreign aggression after Fritzsche became head of

the German Press Division was the incorporation of Bohemia and Moravia.

Fritzsche describes the propaganda action surrounding the incorporation

of Bohemia and Moravia as follows:

“The action for the incorporation of Bohemia and Moravia, which

took place on 15 March 1939, while I was head of the German

Press Division, was not prepared for such a long period as the

Sudeten action. According to my memory, it was in February that

I received the order from the Reich Press Chief, Dr. Dietrich,

which was repeated as a request by the envoy Paul Schmidt of the

Foreign Office, to bring the attention of the press to the

efforts for independence of Slovakia and to the continued

anti-German coalition politics of the Prague government. I did

this. The daily paroles of the Reich Press Chief and the press

conference minutes at that time show the wording of the

corresponding instructions. These were the typical headlines of

leading newspapers and the emphatic leading articles of the

German daily press at that time: (1) the terrorizing of Germans

within the Czech territory by arrest, shooting of Germans by the

state police, destruction and damaging of German homes by Czech

gangsters; (2) the concentration of Czech forces on the Sudeten

frontier; (3) the kidnaping, deporting, and persecuting of

Slovakian minorities by the Czechs; that the Czechs must get out

of Slovakia; (4) secret meetings of Red functionaries in Prague.

Some few days before the visit of Hacha, I received the

instruction to publish in the press very emphatically the

incoming news on the unrest in Czechoslovakia. Such information

I received only partly from the German News Agency, DNB. Mostly

it came from the Press Division of the Foreign Office and some

of it came from big newspapers with their own news services.

Among the newspapers offering information was above all the

‘_Voelkischer Beobachter_’ which, as I learned later on,

received its information from the SS Standartenfuehrer Gunter

D’Alquen. He was at this time in Pressburg. I had forbidden all

news agencies and newspapers to issue news on unrest in

Czechoslovakia before I had seen it. I wanted to avoid a

repetition of the very annoying results of the Sudeten action

propaganda, and I did not want to suffer a loss of prestige

caused by untrue news. Thus, all news checked by me was

admittedly full of tendency [_voller Tendenz_] however, not

invented. After the visit of Hacha in Berlin and after the

beginning of the invasion of the German Army, which took place

on 15 March 1939, the German press had enough material for

describing those events. Historically and politically the event

was justified with the indication that the declaration of

independence of Slovakia had required an interference and that

Hacha with his signature had avoided a war and had reinstated a

thousand-year union between Bohemia and the Reich.” (_3469-PS_)

The propaganda campaign of the press preceding the invasion of Poland on

1 September 1939 bears again the handiwork of Fritzsche and his German

Press Division. Fritzsche speaks of the conspirators’ treatment of this

episode as follows:

“Very complicated and changing was the press and propagandists

treatment in the case of Poland. Under the influence of the

German-Polish agreement, it was generally forbidden in the

German press for many years to publish anything on the situation

of the German minority in Poland. This remained also the case

when in the Spring of 1939 the German press was asked to become

somewhat more active as to the problem of Danzig. Also, when the

first Polish-English conversations took place, and when the

German press was instructed to use a sharper tone against

Poland, the question of the German minority still remained in

the background. But during the summer this problem was picked up

again and created immediately a noticeable sharpening of the

situation, namely, each larger German newspaper had for quite

some time an abundance of material on complaints of the Germans

in Poland without the editors having had a chance to use this

material. The German papers, from the time of the minority

discussion at Geneva, still had correspondents of free

collaborators in Kattewitz, Bromberg, Posen, Thorn, etc. Their

material now came forth with a bound. Concerning this the

leading German newspapers, upon the basis of directions given

out in the so-called ‘daily parole’ brought out the following

publicity with great emphasis: (1) cruelty and terror against

Germans and the extermination of Germans in Poland; (2) forced

labor of thousands of German men and women in Poland; (3)

Poland, land of servitude and disorder; the desertion of Polish

soldiers; the increased inflation in Poland; (4) provocation of

frontier clashes upon direction of the Polish Government; the

Polish lust to conquer; (5) persecution of Czechs and Ukrainians

by Poland. The Polish Press replied particularly sharply.”

(_3469-PS_)

The press campaign preceding the invasion of Yugoslavia followed the

conventional pattern. The customary definitions, lies, incitement, and

threats, and the usual attempt to divide and weaken the victim, are

contained in Fritzsche’s description of this propaganda action:

“During the period immediately preceding the invasion of

Yugoslavia, on the 16th of April 1941, the German press

emphasized by headlines and leading articles the following

topics: (1) the planned persecution of Germans in Yugoslavia,

including the burning down of German villages by Serbian

soldiers; also the confining of Germans in concentration camps

and also the physical mishandling of German-speaking persons;

(2) the arming of Serbian bandits by the Serbian Government; (3)

the incitement of Yugoslavia by the plutocrats against Germany;

(4) the increasing anti-Serbian feeling in Croatia; (5) the

chaotic economic and social conditions in Yugoslavia.”

Since Germany had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, and

because the conspirators wanted the advantage of surprise, there was no

special propaganda campaign immediately preceding the attack on the

U.S.S.R. Fritzsche’s affidavit discusses the propaganda line which was

given the German people in justification of this aggressive war:

“During the night from the 21st to the 22nd of June 1941,

Ribbentrop called me in for a conference in the Foreign Office

Building at about 5 o’clock in the morning, at which

representatives of the domestic and foreign press were present.

Ribbentrop informed us that the war against the Soviet Union

would start that same day and asked the German press to present

the war against the Soviet Union as a preventative war for the

defense of the Fatherland, as a war which was forced upon us

through the immediate danger of an attack of the Soviet Union

against Germany. The claim that this was a preventative war was

later repeated by the newspapers which received their

instructions from me during the usual daily parole of the Reich

Press Chief. I, myself, have also given this presentation of the

cause of the war in my regular broadcasts.” (_3469-PS_)

Fritzsche, throughout his affidavit, constantly refers to his expert

technical assistance to the apparatus of the Propaganda Ministry. In

1939, apparently becoming dissatisfied with the efficiency of the

existing facilities of the German Press Division, he established a new

instrument for improving the effectiveness of Nazi propaganda:

“About the summer of 1939 I established within the German Press

Division a section called ‘Speed-Service.’ * * * At the start it

had the task of checking the correctness of news from foreign

countries. Later on, about the Fall of 1939, this section also

elaborated on collecting materials which were put at the

disposal of the entire German press. For instance, dates from

the British Colonial policy, from political statements of the

British Prime Minister in former times, descriptions of social

distress in hostile countries, etc. Almost all German newspapers

used such material as a basis for their polemics. Hereby was

achieved a great unification within the fighting front of the

German press. The title ‘Speed Service’ was chosen because

materials for current comments were supplied with unusual

speed.” (_3469-PS_)

Throughout this entire period preceding and including the launching of

aggressive wars, Fritzsche made regular radio broadcasts to the German

people under the program titles of “Political Newspaper Review,”

“Political and Radio Show,” and later “Hans Fritzsche Speaks.” His

broadcasts naturally reflected the polemics and the controls of his

Ministry and thus of the conspiracy. Fritzsche, the most eminent member

of Goebbels’ propaganda team, helped substantially in making possible,

both within Germany and without, the conspirators’ plans for aggressive

war.

C. _FRITZSCHE’S USE OF PROPAGANDA TO FURTHER THE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT

ATROCITIES AND EXPLOIT OCCUPIED TERRITORIES._

Fritzsche incited atrocities and encouraged a ruthless occupation

policy. The results of propaganda as a weapon of the Nazi conspirators

reaches into every aspect of this conspiracy, including the atrocities

and ruthless exploitation in occupied countries. It is likely that many

ordinary Germans would never have participated in or tolerated the

atrocities committed throughout Europe, had they not been conditioned

and goaded by the constant Nazi propaganda. The callousness and zeal of

the people who actually committed the atrocities was in large part due

to the constant and corrosive propaganda of Fritzsche and his official

associates.

(1) _Persecution of the Jews._ With respect to Jews, the Department of

Propaganda within the Propaganda Ministry had a special branch for the

“Enlightenment of the German people and of the world as to the Jewish

question, fighting with propagandistic weapons against enemies of the

State and hostile ideologies.” This quotation is taken from a book

written in 1940 by Ministerial Director Mueller, entitled “The

Propaganda Ministry.” (_2434-PS_)

In his radio broadcasts Fritzsche took a particularly active part in

this “enlightenment” concerning the Jewish question. These broadcasts

were full of provocative libels against Jews, the result of which was to

inflame Germans to further atrocities against Jews. Even Streicher, the

master Jew-baiter of all time, could scarcely outdo Fritzsche in some of

his anti-Jewish incitements. Broadcasts by Fritzsche which were

monitored and translated by the British Broadcasting Corporation are

quite revealing (_3064-PS_). These radio speeches of Fritzsche were

broadcast during the period 1941-1945, which was a period of intensified

anti-Jewish measures.

For instance, in a broadcast on 18 December 1941, Fritzsche declared:

“The fate of Jewry in Europe has turned out as unpleasant as the

Fuehrer predicted in the case of a European war. After the

extension of the war instigated by Jews, this unpleasant fate

may also spread to the New World, for you can hardly assume that

the nations of this New World will pardon the Jews for the

misery of which the nations of the Old World did not absolve

them.” (_3064-PS_)

On 18 March 1941 Fritzsche broadcast as follows:

“But the crown of all wrongly-applied Rooseveltian logics is the

sentence ‘There never was a race and there never will be a race

which can serve the rest of mankind as a master.’ Here too we

can only applaud Mr. Roosevelt. Precisely because there exists

no race which can be the master of the rest of mankind, we

Germans have taken the liberty to break the domination of Jewry

and of its capital in Germany, of Jewry which believed to have

inherited the Crown of secret world domination.” (_3064-PS_)

On 9 October 1941 Fritzsche declared over the radio:

“We know very well that these German victories, unparalleled in

history, have not yet stopped the source of hatred, which, for a

long time, has fed the war mongers and from which this war

originated. The international Jewish-Democratic Bolshevistic

campaign of incitement against Germany still finds cover in this

or that fox’s lair or rat-hole. We have seen only too frequently

how the defeats suffered by the war mongers only doubled their

senseless and impotent fury.” (_3064-PS_)

And on 8 January 1944 Fritzsche broadcast the following:

“It is revealed clearly once more that not a system of

Government, not a young nationalism, not a new and well applied

Socialism brought about this war. The guilty ones are

exclusively the Jews and the Plutocrats. If discussion on the

post-war problems brings this to light so clearly, we welcome it

as a contribution for later discussions and also as a

contribution to the fight we are waging now, for we refuse to

believe that world history will confide its future developments

to those powers which have brought about this war. This clique

of Jews and Plutocrats have invested their money in armaments

and they had to see to it that they would get their interests

and sinking funds; hence they unleashed this war.” (_3064-PS_)

Finally, in a broadcast on 13 January 1945, Fritzsche stated:

“If Jewry provided a link between divergent elements as

Plutocracy and Bolshevism and if Jewry was first able to work

successfully in the Democratic countries in preparing this war

against Germany, it has by now placed itself unreservedly on the

side of Bolshevism which, with its entirely mistaken slogans of

racial freedom against racial hatred, has created the very

conditions the Jewish race requires in its struggle for

domination over other races.”

* * * * * *

“Not the last result of German resistance on the fronts, so

unexpected to the enemy, is the fruition of a development which

began in the pre-war years, the process of subordinating British

policy to far-reaching Jewish points of view. It began long

before this when Jewish emigrants from Germany started their

war-mongering against us from British and American soil.”

* * * * * *

“This whole attempt aiming at the establishment of Jewish world

domination, now increasingly recognizable, has come to a head at

the very moment when the people’s understanding of their racial

origins has been far too much awakened to promise success to the

undertaking.” (_3064-PS_)

All this was designed not only as a justification of prior anti-Jewish

actions, but also as an invitation to further persecution of the Jews.

(2) _Ruthless treatment of peoples of the USSR._ Fritzsche also incited

and encouraged ruthless measures against the peoples of the USSR.

In his regular broadcasts Fritzsche’s incitements against the peoples of

the USSR were often linked to, and were certainly as inflammatory as,

his rantings against the Jews. It is ironic that his propaganda

ascribing atrocities to the peoples of the USSR are accurate

descriptions of some of the many atrocities committed by the German

invaders. Shortly after the invasion of the USSR in June 1941 Fritzsche

broadcast as follows:

“The evidence of letters reaching us from the front, of P. K.

[_Propaganda Kompanie_] reporters and soldiers on leave

demonstrates that, in this struggle in the East, not one

political system is pitted against another, not one view of life

is fighting another, but that culture, civilization, and human

decency make a stand against the diabolical principle of a

sub-human world.”

“It was only the Fuehrer’s decision to strike in time that saved

our homeland from the fate of being overrun by those sub-human

creatures, and our men, women, and children from the unspeakable

horror of being their prey.” (_3064-PS_)

In his broadcast on 10 July 1941 Fritzsche spoke of the alleged inhuman

deeds committed in various areas by the Soviet Union, and he states that

upon seeing the evidence of those deeds one is

“* * * finally to make the holy resolve to give his aid in the

final destruction of those who are capable of such dastardly

acts.”

* * * * * *

“The Bolshevist agitators make no effort to deny that in towns,

thousands, in the villages, hundreds, of corpses of men, women

and children have been found, who had been either killed or

tortured to death. Yet the Bolshevik agitators allege that this

was not done by Soviet Commissars but by German soldiers. Now we

Germans know our soldiers. No German woman, father, or mother

requires proof that their husband or their son cannot have

committed such atrocious acts.” (_3064-PS_)

Evidence to be offered by the Soviet prosecuting staff will prove that

representatives of the Nazi conspirators did not hesitate to exterminate

Soviet soldiers and civilians by scientific mass methods. The

incitements by Fritzsche make him an accomplice in these crimes. His

labeling of the Soviet peoples as members of a “sub-human world” seeking

to “exterminate” the German people, and similar talk, helped fashion the

psychological atmosphere of unreason and hatred which not only made

possible these atrocities in the East, but made them appear a holy duty.

(3) _Exploitation of occupied territories._ Fritzsche encouraged and

glorified the policy of the Nazi conspirators in ruthlessly exploiting

the occupied countries. In his radio broadcast of 9 October 1941 he

stated:

“Today we can only say: Blitzkrieg or no—this German

thunderstorm has cleansed the atmosphere of Europe. It is quite

true that the dangers threatening us were eliminated one after

the other with lightning speed; but in these lightning blows

which shattered England’s allies on the Continent, we saw not a

proof of the weakness, but a proof of the strength and

superiority of the Fuehrer’s gift as a statesman and military

leader; a proof of the German peoples’ force; we saw the proof

that no opponent can stand up to the courage, discipline, and

readiness for sacrifice displayed by the German soldier; and we

are particularly grateful for these lightning, unmatched

victories, because—as the Fuehrer emphasized last Friday—they

give us the possibility of embarking on the organization of

Europe and of lifting of the treasures of this old continent,

already now in the middle of war, without it being necessary for

millions and millions of German soldiers to be on guard,

fighting day and night along this or that threatened frontier;

and the possibilities of this continent are so rich that they

suffice for any need of peace or war.” (_3064-PS_)

In his affidavit, Fritzsche admits having encouraged the exploitation of

foreign countries:

“The utilization of the productive capacity of the occupied

countries for the strengthening of the war potential, I have

openly and gloriously praised, chiefly because the competent

authorities put at my disposal much material, especially on the

voluntary placement of manpower.” (_3469-PS_)

(4) _Control of German radio._ In addition to continuing as the head of

the German Press Division until after the conspirators had begun the

last of their aggression, Fritzsche was also the high commander of the

entire German radio system. In November 1942 Goebbels created a new

position, that of Plenipotentiary for the Political Organization of the

Greater German Radio, a position which Fritzsche was the first and the

last to hold. In his affidavit, Fritzsche narrates how the entire German

Radio and Television System was organized under his supervision:

“My office practically represented the high command of German

radio.” (_3469-PS_)

As special Plenipotentiary for the Political Organization of the Greater

German Radio, Fritzsche issued orders to all the Reich propaganda

offices by teletype. These were used in conforming the entire radio

apparatus of Germany to the desires of the conspirators.

Goebbels customarily held an eleven o’clock conference with his closest

collaborators within the Propaganda Ministry. When both Goebbels and his

undersecretary, Dr. Naumann, were absent, Goebbels, after 1943,

entrusted Fritzsche with the holding of this eleven o’clock press

conference.

In Goebbels’ introduction to a book by Fritzsche, called “War to the War

Mongers,” he took occasion to praise Fritzsche’s broadcasts in this

fashion:

“Nobody knows better than I how much work is involved in those

broadcasts, how many times they were dictated within the last

minutes to find some minutes later a willing ear by the whole

nation.” (_3255-PS_)

It is clear from Goebbels himself that the entire German nation was

prepared to lend willing ears to Fritzsche, after he had made his

reputation on the radio.

The rumor passed that Fritzsche was “His Master’s Voice” (_Die Stimme

seines Herren_). This is borne out by Fritzsche’s functions. When

Fritzsche spoke on the radio it was plain to the German people that they

were listening to the high command of the conspirators in this field.

D. _CONCLUSION._

Fritzsche was not the type of conspirator who signed decrees, or who sat

in the inner councils planning the overall grand strategy. The function

of propaganda is, for the most part, apart from the field of such

planning. The function of a propaganda agency is somewhat more analogous

to an advertising agency or public relations department, the job of

which is to sell the product and to win the market for the enterprise in

question. Here the enterprise was the Nazi conspiracy. In a conspiracy

which depends upon fraud as a means, the salesmen of the conspiratorial

group are quite as essential and culpable as the master planners, even

though he may not have contributed substantially to the formulation of

all the basic strategy, but rather concentrated on making the execution

of this strategy possible. In this case, propaganda was a weapon of

tremendous importance to this conspiracy. Furthermore, the leading

propagandists were major accomplices in this conspiracy, and Fritzsche

was one of them.

When Fritzsche entered the Propaganda Ministry, which has been called

the most fabulous “lie factory” of all time, and thus attached himself

to the conspiracy, he did so with more of an open mind than most of the

conspirators who had committed themselves at an earlier date, before the

seizure of power. He was in a particularly strategic position to observe

the frauds committed upon the German people and the world by the

conspirators.

In 1933, before Fritzsche took his Party oath of unconditional obedience

and subservience to the Fuehrer, he had observed at first hand the

operations of the storm troopers and the execution of Nazi race actions.

When, notwithstanding, Fritzsche undertook to bring all German news

agencies within Nazi control, he learned from the inside, indeed from

Goebbels himself, the intrigue and lies against opposition groups within

and without Germany. He observed, for example, how opposition

journalists, a profession to which he had previously belonged, were

either absorbed or eliminated. He continued to support the conspiracy.

He learned from day to day the art of intrigue and quackery in the

process of perverting the German nation, and he grew in prestige and

influence as he practiced this art.

Fritzsche learned a lesson from his predecessor, Berndt, who fell from

the leadership of the German Press Division partly because he

over-played his hand by blunt and excessive manipulation of the

Sudetenland propaganda. Fritzsche stepped into the gap caused by the

loss of confidence of both the editors and the German people, and did

his job with more skill and subtlety. His shrewdness and ability to be

more assuring and “to find,” as Goebbels said, “willing ears of the

whole nation,”—these things made him the more useful accomplice of the

conspirators.

Nazi Germany and its press went into war with Fritzsche in control of

all German news, whether by press or radio. In 1942, when Fritzsche

transferred from the field of the press to radio, he was not removed for

bungling, but because Goebbels then needed his talents most in the field

of radio. Fritzsche is not in the dock as a free journalist but as a

propagandist who helped substantially to tighten the Nazi stranglehold

over the German people, who made the excesses of the conspirators

palatable to the German people, who goaded the German nation to fury and

crime against people they were told by him were sub-human.

Without the propaganda apparatus of the Nazi State, the world would not

have suffered the catastrophe of these years, and it is because of

Fritzsche’s role in behalf of the Nazi conspirators, and their deceitful

and barbarous practices, that he is called to account before the

International Military Tribunal.

(See also Section 9 of Chapter VII on Propaganda, Censorship, and

Supervision of Cultural Activities.)

* * * * *

LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO HANS FRITZSCHE

│ │ │

Document │ Description │ Vol. │ Page

│ │ │

│Charter of the International Military │ │

│ Tribunal, Article 6. │ I │ 5

│International Military Tribunal, │ │

│ Indictment Number 1, Section IV (H);│ │

│ Appendix A. │ I │ 26, 68

│ ———— │ │

│Note: A single asterisk (*) before a │ │

│document indicates that the document │ │

│was received in evidence at the │ │

│Nurnberg trial. A double asterisk (**)│ │

│before a document number indicates │ │

│that the document was referred to │ │

│during the trial but was not formally │ │

│received in evidence, for the reason │ │

│given in parentheses following the │ │

│description of the document. The USA │ │

│series number, given in parentheses │ │

│following the description of the │ │

│document, is the official exhibit │ │

│number assigned by the court. │ │

│ ———— │ │

2029-PS │Decree establishing the Reich Ministry│ │

│of Public Enlightenment and │ │

│Propaganda, 13 March 1933. 1933 │ │

│Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 104. │ IV │ 652

│ │ │

2030-PS │Decree concerning the Duties of the │ │

│Reich Ministry for Public │ │

│Enlightenment and Propaganda, 30 June │ │

│1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, │ │

│p. 449. │ IV │ 653

│ │ │

*2434-PS │The Reich Ministry for Enlightenment │ │

│of the People and for Propaganda, │ │

│Berlin 1940, by Georg Mueller. (USA │ │

│722) │ V │ 102

│ │ │

2976-PS │Affidavit of Fritzsche, 19 November │ │

│1945, concerning positions held. (USA │ │

│20) │ V │ 682

│ │ │

*3064-PS │Official British Broadcasting │ │

│Corporation translation of radio │ │

│speeches of Fritzsche. (USA 723) │ V │ 877

│ │ │

*3255-PS │Ministerial Director Hans │ │

│Fritzsche—Leader of Radio, published │ │

│in Radio Archives, Vol. 15, November │ │

│1942, pp. 473-474. (USA 724) │ V │ 992

│ │ │

*3469-PS │Affidavit of Hans Fritzsche, 7 January│ │

│1946. (USA 721) │ VI │ 174

│ │ │

*Chart No. 1 │National Socialist German Workers’ │ │

│Party. (2903-PS; USA 2) │ VIII │ 770

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

1. PRINCIPAL OFFICIALS OF THE REICH GOVERNMENT

LEADER AND REICH CHANCELLOR (_Fuehrer und Reichskanzler_)

ADOLPH HITLER

Designated Successors HERMANN GOERING, RUDOLF HESS

(until 1941)

Successor named to form a Government KARL DOENITZ

after the collapse in May 1945

Head of Presidential Chancery OTTO MEISSNER

(_Praesidialkanzlei_) and State

Minister (_Staatsminister_)

REICH CABINET (_Reichsregierung_)

Chancellor (_Reichskanzler_) ADOLF HITLER

Vice-Chancellor FRANZ von PAPEN (until 1934)

Reich Ministers:

Reich Chancery HANS LAMMERS

Air HERMANN GOERING

Armaments and War Production ALBERT SPEER (predecessor,

Todt, Minister for Armaments

and Munitions—until 1942)

Church Affairs HERMAN MUHS, Acting

(predecessor, Hans Kerrl)

Economics WALTER FUNK (predecessors,

Schacht, Schmitt, Hugenberg)

Education BERNARD RUST

Finance LUTZ GRAF SCHWERIN von KROSIGK

Food and Agriculture HERBERT BACKE, Acting

(predecessor, Walter Darré)

Foreign Affairs JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP

(predecessor, Constantin von

Neurath)

Interior HEINRICH HIMMLER (predecessor,

Wilhelm Frick)

Justice OTTO THIERACK (predecessor,

Schlegelberger—acting,

Guertner)

Labor FRANZ SELDTE

Labor Service KONSTANTIN HIERL

Occupied Eastern Territories ALFRED ROSENBERG

Posts WILHELM OHNESORGE

(predecessor, von

Eltz-Ruebenach)

Propaganda PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS

Transport JULIUS DORPMUELLER

(predecessor, von

Eltz-Ruebenach)

War WERNER von BLOMBERG (until

1938)

Ministers without Portfolio but with KEITEL (predecessor, von

Rank of Reich Minister Brauchitsch until December

1941)

DOENITZ (predecessor, Raeder)

BORMANN (predecessor, Hess)

HANS FRANK

SEYSS-INQUART (predecessor,

Roehm, until 1934)

Ministers after loss of portfolio

FRICK

von NEURATH

SCHACHT

State Ministers acting as Reich Ministers:

Head of the Presidential Chancery MEISSNER

State Minister for Bohemia-Moravia KARL HERMANN FRANK

Other Participants in Cabinet Meetings:

Chief of Foreign Organization of ERNST WILHELM BOHLE

Party

Prussian Minister of State and DR. JOHANNES POPITZ

Finance

Government Press Chief OTTO DIETRICH (predecessor,

Walter Funk)

Reich Youth Leader ARTHUR AXMANN (predecessor,

Baldur von Schirach)

SECRET CABINET COUNCIL (_Geheimer Kabinettsrat_)

President CONSTANTIN VON NEURATH

Secretary HANS LAMMERS

Members JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP,

HERMANN GOERING, PAUL JOSEF

GOEBBELS, ERICH RAEDER,

WILHELM KEITEL, RUDOLF HESS

(until 1941), MARTIN

BORMANN, WALTER von

BRAUCHITSCH

REICH DEFENSE COUNCIL (_Reichsverteidigungsrat_) (Status in 1938)

Chairman ADOLF HITLER

Reich Minister of Air and Supreme HERMANN GOERING

Commander of Air force

(_Reichsminister der Luftfahrt und

Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe_)

Supreme Commander of the Army WALTER von BRAUCHITSCH

(_Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres_)

Supreme Commander of the Navy ERICH RAEDER

(Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine)

Chief of the OKW (_Chef des WILHELM KEITEL

Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht_)

Deputy of the Leader (_Stellvertreter RUDOLF HESS

des Fuehrers_)

Chief of Reich Chancery (_Chef der HANS LAMMERS

Reichskanzlei_)

President of Secret Cabinet Council CONSTANTIN von NEURATH

(_Praesident des Geheimen

Kabinettsrats_)

Plenipotentiary for Reich WILHELM FRICK

Administration

(_Generalbevollmaechtigter fuer die

Reichsverwaltung_)

Plenipotentiary for Economics WALTER FUNK

(_Generalbevollmaechtigter fuer die

Wirtschaft_) and Reich Finance

Minister (_Reichsminister der

Finanzen_)

Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP

(_Reichsminister des Auswaertigen_)

Reich Minister of Interior WILHELM FRICK

(_Reichsminister des Innern_)

Reich Minister for Propaganda PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS

(_Reichsminister fuer

Volksaufklaerung und Propaganda_)

President of Reich Bank Directory HJALMAR SCHACHT

(_Praesident des

Reichsbankdirektoriums_)

REICH DEFENSE COMMITTEE

(_Reichsverteidigungsausschuss_)

KEITEL, GOERING, SCHACHT,

FUNK, FRICK and Defense

Officials (_RD Referenten_)

MINISTERIAL COUNCIL FOR DEFENSE OF THE REICH (_Ministerrat fuer die

Reichsverteidigung_)

Chairman HERMANN GOERING

Secretary HANS LAMMERS

Plenipotentiary for Reich HEINRICH HIMMLER (predecessor,

Administration Wilhelm Frick)

Plenipotentiary for Economics WALTER FUNK

Chief of OKW WILHELM KEITEL

Deputy of the Fuehrer RUDOLF HESS (followed by Head

of the Party Chancery,

Martin Bormann)

THREE-MAN COLLEGE (_Dreier-Kollegium_)

Plenipotentiary for (War) Economy FUNK (predecessor, Schacht)

Plenipotentiary for Administration HIMMLER (predecessor, Frick)

Chief of the OKW KEITEL (predecessor, Minister

of War—Blomberg)

OFFICE OF THE DELEGATE FOR THE FOUR YEAR PLAN (_Beauftragter fuer den

Vierjahresplan_)

Delegate (_Beauftragter_) HERMANN GOERING

State Secretary and Permanent Deputy PAUL KOERNER

Plenipotentiaries—General

(_Generalbevollmaechtigte_):

Control of Building ALBERT SPEER

Special Chemical Production CARL KRAUCH

Economics in Serbia FRANZ NEUHAUSEN

Metal Mining in the Southeast FRANZ NEUHAUSEN

Armaments ALBERT SPEER

Manpower FRITZ SAUCKEL

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES (Administrators directly responsible to Hitler)

Reich Commissioners:

Netherlands (_Reichskommissar fuer ARTHUR SEYSS-INQUART

die besetzen niederlaendischen

Gebiete_) Reich Commissioner

Norway (_Reichskommissar fuer die JOSEF TERBOVEN

besetzten norwegischen Gebiete_)

Reich Commissioner

Ostland (_Reichskommissar fuer das HINRICH LOHSE

Ostland_)

Ukraine (_Reichskommissar fuer die ERICH KOCH

Ukraine_)

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

(_Reichsprotektorat Boehmen und

Maehren_) (Czechoslovakia)

Reich Protector WILHELM FRICK (predecessor,

Constantin von Neurath)

State Minister KARL HERMANN FRANK

General Government

(_Generalgouvernement_) (Poland)

Governor-General HANS FRANK

Chiefs of Civil Administration:

Alsace—Chief of Civil Administration ROBERT WAGNER

(_Chef der Zivilverwaltung im

Elsass_)

Bialystok—Chief of Civil ERICH KOCH

Administration (_Chef der

Zivilverwaltung in Bezirk

Bialystok_)

Carinthia and Carniola—Chief of Civil FRIEDRICH RAINER

Administration (_Chef der

Zivilverwaltung in den besetzten

Gebieten Kaerntens und Krains_)

Lorraine—Chief of Civil WILHELM STOEHR (predecessor,

Administration (_Chef der Josef Buerckel)

Zivilverwaltung in Lothringen_)

Lower Styria—Chief of Civil SIEGFRIED UIBERREITHER

Administration (_Chef der

Zivilverwaltung in der

Untersteiermark_)

Luxembourg—Chief of Civil GUSTAV SIMON

Administration (_Chef der

Zivilverwaltung in Luxemberg_)

Military Administration:

Denmark:

Military Commander GEORG LINDEMANN (predecessor,

Hermann von Hanneken)

Plenipotentiary WERNER BEST

France:

Military Commander STUELPNAGEL

Chief of Administration SCHMIDT

Diplomatic Representative OTTO ABETZ

THE REICHSTAG

President HERMANN GOERING

Vice-President HERMANN ESSER

Head of Administration KIENAST

(_Ministerialdirigent_)

POLICE

Reich Leader of SS and Chief of German HEINRICH HIMMLER

Police (_Reichsfuehrer SS und Chef

der Deutschen Polizei_)

Chief of the Order Police (_Chef der WUENNENBERG (predecessor, Kurt

Ordnungspolizei_) Daluege)

Chief of Security Police and SD (_Chef ERNST KALTENBRUNNER

der Sicherheitspolizei und SD_) (predecessor, Reinhardt

Heydrich)

Reich Main Security Office (_Reichssicherheitshauptamt_):

Chief ERNST KALTENBRUNNER

(predecessor, Reinhardt

Heydrich)

Chief of Personnel (Dept. I) ERWIN SCHULZ

Chief of Organization, HAENEL (predecessor, Siegert)

Administration, and Law (Dept. II)

Chief of Security Service (SD) (Dept. OTTO OHLENDORF

III)

Chief of Secret State Police HEINRICH MUELLER

(Gestapo) (Dept. IV)

Chief of Criminal Police (Kripo) PANZINGER (predecessor, Nebe)

(Dept. V)

Chief of Security Service (SD) WALTER SCHELLENBERG

Occupied Territories (Dept. VI)

Chief of Ideological Research (Dept. DITTEL (predecessor, Six)

VII)

Military Office WALTER SCHELLENBERG

2. PRINCIPAL OFFICIALS OF THE NAZI PARTY

Leader of the Party (_Fuehrer_) ADOLF HITLER

Deputy of the Fuehrer RUDOLF HESS (until 1941)

(_Stellvertreter des Fuehrers_)

Chief of the Party Chancery and MARTIN BORMANN

Secretary of the Fuehrer (_Leiter

der Partei Kanzlei und Sekretaer

des Fuehrers_)

Chancery of the Fuehrer (_Kanzlei des Fuehrers_):

Head PHILIPP BOUHLER

Chancery of the Party (_Kanzlei der Partei_):

Head MARTIN BORMANN

Deputy Head HELMUT FRIEDRICHS

Heads of Divisions:

Internal Party Affairs HELMUT FRIEDRICHS

Constitutional Law GERHARD KLOEPFER

Finance KARL WINKLER

Personnel WALKENHORST

Reich Party Directorate (_Reichsleitung_):

Chancery of Fuehrer and Party PHILIPP BOUHLER

Censorship

Chancery of the Party MARTIN BORMANN

Colonial Policy FRANZ RITTER von EPP

Ideology and Foreign Policy ALFRED ROSENBERG

Legal Office HANS FRANK (until 1942)

Municipal Policy KARL FIEHLER

Nazi Reichstag Delegation WILHELM FRICK

Organization and Labor Front ROBERT LEY

Party Tribunal WALTER BUCH

Peasantry WALTER DARRE (on leave, Herbert

Backe, acting)

Press Control (political) OTTO DIETRICH

Press Control (economic) MAX AMANN

Propaganda PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS

Reich Labor Service KONSTANTIN HIERL

SS and Germanization HEINRICH HIMMLER

Treasury FRANZ XAVER SCHWARZ

Youth Education BALDUR von SCHIRACH

Heads of Party Formations:

Elite Guard (SS) HEINRICH HIMMLER

Storm Troops (SA) WILHELM SCHEPMANN (predecessors,

Victor Lutze, Ernest Roehm)

NS Motor Corps (NSKK) ERWIN KRAUS

Hitler Youth (HJ) ARTHUR AXMANN (predecessor, Baldur

von Schirach)

NS Flying Corps (NSFK) (with status ALFRED KELLER

similar to that of a formation)

NS German Student League (NSDSB) GUSTAV-ADOLF SCHEEL

NS University Teachers League GUSTAV-ADOLF SCHEEL

(NSDoB)

NS Women’s League (NSF) GERTRUD SCHOLTZ-KLINK

3. HEADS OF THE ARMED FORCES

Supreme Commander (_Oberster ADOLF HITLER

Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht_)

Highest ranking officer HERMANN WILHELM GOERING

(_Rangaeltester Offizier_) (Reichsmarschall)

C. in C. Army (_Oberbefehlshaber des ADOLF HITLER (predecessors, Walter

Heeres_) von Brauschitsch, Werner von

Fritsch)

C. in C. Navy (_Oberbefehlshaber der KARL DOENITZ (predecessor, Erich

Kriegsmarine_) Raeder)

C. in C. Air Force (_Oberbefehlshaber HERMANN WILHELM GOERING (succeeded

der Luftwaffe_) in 1945 by Robert von Greim)

A. HIGH COMMAND OF THE ARMED FORCES (_Oberkommando der Wehrmacht: OKW_)

Chief of High Command (_Chef des WILHELM KEITEL

Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht_)

Chief of Operation Staff (_Chef des ALFRED JODL

Wehrmachtfuehrungsstabes_)

Deputy Chief WALTER WARLIMONT

B. ARMY HIGH COMMAND (_Oberkommando des Heeres: OKH_)

C. in C. Army (_Oberbefehlshaber des ADOLF HITLER (predecessors, Walter

Heeres_) von Brauchitsch, Werner von

Fritsch)

Chief of Staff, Army (_Chef des HANS KREBS (predecessors, Heinz

Generalstabes des Heeres_) Guderian, Kurt Zeitzler, Franz

Halder and Ludwig Beck)

C. NAVY HIGH COMMAND (_Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine: OKM_)

C. in C. Navy (_Oberbefehlshaber der KARL DOENITZ (predecessor, Erich

Kriegsmarine_) Raeder)

Admiralinspekteur ERICH RAEDER (after 1943)

4. INDEX OF INDIVIDUALS

ABETZ, OTTO

German Ambassador to the Petain Government.

AMANN, MAX

Reich Leader for the Press (Reichsleiter fuer die Presse); President of

the Reich Press Chamber (Praesident der Reichspressekammer); Head of

Central publishing house of the Party (Zentral Verlag, Franz Eher

Nachf.)

ARNIM, JURGEN von

Generaloberst 1941-2; leading Panzer units in Russia, Jan. 1943;

Commander in Tunis; surrendered May 1943.

AXMANN, ARTHUR

Reich Youth Leader (Reichsjugendfuehrer) since 1940.

BACH-ZELEWSKI, ERICH, von dem

General of Police and of Waffen-SS; Chief of Anti-Partisan Units on the

entire Eastern front, 1943-44; in charge of the defense of Warsaw until

it was liberated; commander of a Waffen-SS Corps on the Western front.

BACKE, HERBERT

Acting Reichsminister for Food; in charge of Ministry of Food and

Agriculture; Head of Reichsnaehrstand.

BERGER, GOTTLIEB

Chief of Central Office of SS; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; General d.

Waffen-SS; Inspector-General of Prisoners of War; head of Policy

Division of Reich Ministry for Eastern Territories.

BEST, DR. WERNER KARL

German Plenipotentiary in Denmark.

BLASKOWITZ, JOHANNES

Generaloberst.

BLOMBERG, WERNER EDWARD FRITZ von

Generalfeldmarschall; Minister of War until Feb. 4, 1938.

BOCK, FEDOR von

Generalfeldmarschall.

BODENSCHATZ, KARL HEINRICH

General in Air Corps; Chief of Staff to Goering.

BOHLE, ERNST WILHELM

Staatssekretaer in Foreign Office; Gauleiter, Head of Foreign

Organization (AO) of NSDAP.

BORMANN, MARTIN

Secretary of the Fuehrer; Head of the Party Chancery; Member of Cabinet

vested with power of Reich Minister; Ministerial Council for Defense of

the Reich; Reichsleiter; Executive Head of the Volkssturm; member of the

Reichstag; SS Gruppenfuehrer.

BOUHLER, PHILIPP

Chief of the Chancery of the Fuehrer; Reichsleiter; Chief of the Party

Censorship Committee for the Protection of NS Literature; Chief of the

Study Group for the German History Book and educational material.

BRANDT, DR. KARL

Reich Commissioner for Health and Medical Services; SS

Standartenfuehrer.

BRAUCHITSCH, WALTER HEINRICH HERMANN ALFRED von

Generalfeldmarschall, Retired December 1941; formerly C. in C. Army

(OKH).

BRUEGMANN, DR. ARNOLD

Chief of the Archives of the Party; Divisional Head in the

Reichsstudentenfuehrung.

BUCH, WALTER

Reichsleiter; Supreme Party Judge; Advisor on Population and Racial

Policy; SS Obergruppenfuehrer.

BUMKE, DR. ERWIN

President of the Supreme Court, Leipzig.

BURGDORFF, WILHELM

General d. Infanterie; Head of Personnel Division, OKH; Chief Military

ADC. to Hitler.

BUSCH, ERNST

Generalfeldmarschall.

CANARIS, WILHELM

Admiral; Head of Intelligence in OKW (Abwehr); removed from post and

executed.

CONTI, DR. LEONARDO

Staatssekretaer and Chief of Health Divisions (Abteilungen III & IV),

Reich Ministry of the Interior; Head of Public Health Department of

Party Reichsleitung.

DALUEGE, KURT

Chef der Ordnungspolizei; (Deputy) Reich Protector of Bohemia-Moravia;

Generaloberst d. Polizei; SS-Oberstgruppenfuehrer; since 1943 on “long

leave.”

DARRE, WALTER RICHARD OSKAR

Reichsleiter; Reichsbauernfuehrer; Reich Minister for Food and

Agriculture; Head of Reichsnaehrstand; on leave since April 1942.

DIETRICH, DR. OTTO

Staatssekretaer; Chief of Press Divisions in Reich Ministry of

Propaganda; Press Chief of Reichsregierung; Reichsleiter; Reich Press

Chief of NSDAP.

DITTMAR, KURT

Generalleutnant; in Propaganda Division of the OKH; broadcaster of

weekly military commentaries.

DOENITZ, KARL

Grossadmiral and C. in C. of OKM after 1943; previously C. in C. of

Submarine Arm of German Navy; Head of Government formed in May 1945.

DORPMUELLER, DR. JULIUS

Reich and Prussian Minister of Transport; Director-General of German

State Railways.

DORSCH, XAVER FRANZ

Ministerialdirektor in Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production;

Head of Field Command in Organization Todt.

EICHMANN, ADOLF

Head of Dept. IV A4 of RSHA, and Chief of Sub-section “b” thereof

charged with “The Solution of the Jewish Question”.

EPP, FRANZ, RITTER von

Reichsleiter; Reichstatthalter Bayern; SA-Obergruppenfuehrer; Head of

Colonial Policy Office of Party; General der Infanterie.

ESSER, HERMANN

Staatssekretaer and head of Tourists Division in Reich Propaganda

Ministry; Praesident of “Reich Group Tourist Traffic” (Fremdenverkehr);

Vice-President of the Reichstag; State Minister (retd).

FALKENHAUSEN, ALEXANDER von

Generaloberst—Commander of Belgium and Northern France.

FALKENHORST, NIKOLAUS von

Generaloberst—Commander in Norway.

FIEHLER, KARL

Reichsleiter; Chief of the Party Department for Municipal Policy;

SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; Chairman of the Congress of German

Municipalities; Oberbuergermeister Muenchen; Member of the Academy for

German Law.

FISCHER, ERICH

Head of Home Press Division in the Reich Propaganda Ministry; Head of

office for “German Press” in the Press Department of the Government;

Head of Political Press section with Reichspressechef (RL).

FISCHER, HUGO

Head of Culture and Exhibitions sections in Reich Propaganda Department

of RL.

FOSTER, ALBERT

Gauleiter, Reichsstatthalter and Reichsverteidigungskommissar

Danzig-Westpreussen.

FRANK, DR. HANS

Governor-General of Poland; Reichsleiter until 1942; Reich Minister

without portfolio; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; President of the International

Chamber of Law (1941-42) and of Academy of German Law; Member of the

Reichstag; Leader of National Socialist Lawyers Bund (1933-1942).

FRANK, KARL-HERMANN

German Minister of State with rank of Reich Minister; Hoeherer SS und

Polizeifuehrer “Protectorate” and Sudetenland.

FREISLER, DR. ROLAND

President of the People’s Court; Prussian State Councillor; Member of

the Academy of German Law.

FRICK, WILHELM

Minister of Interior (1933-1943); Reichsprotector of Bohemia and

Moravia; Reichsdirektor of Elections (1933-1943); SS-Obergruppenfuehrer;

Reichsleiter; Head of Nazi Reichstag Delegation; Member of Reich Defense

Council; General Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich

(1935-1943); Reichsminister without Portfolio (1943-1945).

FRIEDRICHS, DR. HELMUT

Head of Section for Internal Party affairs in and deputy head of

Chancellery of the Party.

FRITZSCHE, HANS

Ministerialdirektor, Reich Ministry of Propaganda; Plenipotentiary for

the Political Supervision of Broadcasting in Greater Germany; head of

Broadcasting Division in Propaganda Ministry.

FUNK, DR. WALTER

Reich Minister of Economics; Member of the Ministerial Council for

Defense of the Reich; Plenipotentiary for Economics; President of the

Reichsbank; Vice-President of the Reich Chamber of Culture; formerly

Chief of Press of the Reich Government (1933-1937); member of Reichstag

(1932-1933); and State Secretary in the Ministry for Public

Enlightenment and Propaganda (1933-1937).

GLAISE-HORSTENAU, DR. h. c. EDMUND von

General der Infanterie; SA-Gruppenfuehrer; Minister in Seyss-Inquart

Cabinet; German General Plenipotentiary in Austria in 1944.

GLUECKS, RICHARD

Chief of “Amtsgruppe D” in the Economic and Administrative Main Office

(Wirtschafts- and Verwaltungshauptamt) of SS; Commander of Concentration

Camps; SS-Gruppenfuehrer; General-leutnant d. Waffen-SS.

GOEBBELS, DR. PAUL JOSEF

Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda; Member of the

Secret Cabinet Council; Chairman of the Interministerial Committee on

Air-Raid Damage; Reichspropagandaleiter of the NSDAP; Reichsleiter;

President of the Reich Chamber of Culture; Stadtpraesident, Gauleiter,

Reichsverteidigungskommissar of Berlin; Reich Plenipotentiary for Total

War Effort.

GOERING, HERMANN WILHELM

Successor designate No. 1 to Hitler; Reich Minister for Air; President

of the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich; member of the

Secret Cabinet Council; Reich Forest Master; Commander-in-Chief of the

Air Force; Prime Minister of Prussia; President of the Prussian State

Council; President of the Reichstag; Plenipotentiary for the Four Year

Plan; Head of the “Reichswerke Hermann Goering”; Reichsmarschall;

SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; SA-Obergruppenfuehrer.

GREIM, ROBERT RITTER v.

Generaloberst, C.-in-C. of the Air Force (OKL) 1945.

GROSS, DR. WALTER

Head of Racial Policy Department of the Party; high official in the

Chancery of the Party; Hauptdienstleiter; Head of the Science Division

in Ideology Department (Amt Rosenberg).

GUDERIAN, HEINZ

Generaloberst, Chief of Staff of the Army (OKH).

GUENTHER, DR. HANS K. F.

Professor of racial science at Jena.

HAENEL

Head of Amt II, Reich Main Security Office; SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer.

HALDER, FRANZ

Colonel-General; Chief of Staff of OKH (until summer 1942).

HANNEKEN, HERMANN von

General der Infanterie; Military Commander in Denmark until 1945.

HAUSHOEFER, DR. KARL

Professor; Generalmajor (retd); President of Society for Geopolitics;

Publisher of periodical “Die Geopolitik.”

HENLEIN, KONRAD

Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter Sudetenland; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer;

member of the Reichstag.

HESS, RUDOLF

Successor Designate No. 2 of the Fuehrer; Deputy of the Fuehrer for all

Party affairs; Reich Minister; member of the Reichstag until 1941.

HEYDRICH, REINHARDT

Formerly SS-Obergruppenfuehrer and Chief of the RSHA.

HIERL, KONSTANTIN

Reichsleiter; Reichsarbeitsfuehrer; Reichsminister; member of the

Reichstag; Generalmajor.

HIMMLER, HEINRICH

Reichsfuehrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei; Reich Commissar for the

Strengthening of German Folkdom; Reich Minister of the Interior;

Reichsleiter; Chief of the Replacement Army; Military Chief of the

Volkssturm.

HITLER, ADOLF

Fuehrer u. Reichskanzler; Fuehrer of NS Party and Movement;

Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht; Commander-in-Chief of Army; Chief

of Cabinet; Chief of Reich Defense Council; Chief of SA.

HOSSBACH, FRIEDRICH

General der Infanterie.

JODL, ALFRED

Colonel-General (1944); Chief of Operation Staff of High Command of OKW

(1939-1945).

JUETTNER, HANS

Head of SS Operational Main Office and Command of the Combat SS;

Permanent Deputy to Himmler as Commander of the Replacement Army;

SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; General d. Waffen-SS.

JUETTNER, MAX

Chief of SA Command and Permanent Deputy of the Chief of Staff; Chief of

Mounted SA; SA-Obergruppenfuehrer; Member of the Reichstag.

KALTENBRUNNER, DR. ERNST

Chief of Security Police and Security Service; Chef des

Reichssicherheitshauptamtes (Reich Security Main Office); Member of the

Reichstag; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; General der Polizei.

KEITEL, WILHELM

Generalfeldmarschall; Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces

(OKW); Member of Cabinet with rank of Reichsminister; Member of Secret

Cabinet Council; Member of Ministerial Council for Defense of the Reich;

Member of Reich Defense Council.

KESSELRING, ALBERT

Generalfeldmarschall; C-in-C. South West and Army Group C.

KITZINGER, KARL

General der Flieger.

KLAGGES, DIETRICH

Ministerpraesident, Minister of the Interior, of Finance and of

Education, in Braunschweig; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer.

KLEIST, EWALD von

Generalfeldmarschall.

KLOPPER, DR. GERHARD

Ministerialdirektor; Staatssekretaer and Expert for Government Affairs

in Party Chancery; Oberdienstleiter; SS-Gruppenfuehrer.

KOCH, ERICH

Oberpraesident and Gauleiter of Ostpreussen; Reich Defense Commissioner

for Wehrkreis I; SS-Gruppenfuehrer; Reich Commissioner of Ukraine,

Bialystak.

KOERNER, PAUL

Staatssekretaer to the Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan (Goering);

Prussian State Councillor; Chairman, board of directors, Hermann Goering

Werke Saltzgitter; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer.

KRAUCH, DR. KARL

Plenipotentiary of the Board of the Four Year Plan for questions of

chemical production; acting head of the Department for Expansion of

Economic Life (Wirtschaftsaufbau); Chairman, board of directors, I. G.

Farben; Wehrwirtschaftsfuehrer.

KRAUS, ERWIN

Commander-in-Chief of the NSKK; Inspector for Motor Training in the

Volkssturm; Member of the Reichstag; Plenipotentiary for Motor Transport

in War Industry (under the Four Year Plan).

KREBS, HANS

General der Infanterie; Chief of Staff of OKH.

KRUPP von BOHLEN und HALBACH, ALFRED

President of Friedrich Krupp Company, took over sole ownership in 1943;

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Reichsvereinigung

Eisen; joined NSDAP in 1936.

KRUPP von BOHLEN und HALBACH, GUSTAV

Chairman of Board of the Friedrich Krupp A.G.; Pioneer of Labor; awarded

Party’s Golden Honor Badge and the Eagle Shield of the Reich.

LAHOUSEN, ERWIN

Generalmajor; Assistant to Admiral Canaris, Head of Intelligence Section

OKW (Abwehr); became Chief of Abwehr Section II in 1939.

LAMMERS, DR. HANS HEINRICH

Reichsminister; Chief of the Reich Chancery; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer;

Member of and Secretary to the Secret Cabinet and the Ministerrat fuer

die Reichsverteidigung; Preussischer Staatsrat; member of the Academy of

German Law.

LANGE, DR. KURT

Commissioner for Currency, Banking, Insurance in Reich Ministry of

Economics; Vice-President of Reichsbank; Deputy President of Deutsche

Gold-Diskont Bank; NSFK-Brigadefuehrer.

LEY, ROBERT

Reichsleiter; Chief, Party Organization; Leader of the German Labor

Front; Reich Housing Commissioner; SA-Gruppenfuehrer.

LINDEMANN, GEORG

Generaloberst; C.-in-C. Denmark beginning of 1945.

LINDEMANN, KARL

President of the Reich Chamber of Commerce; Staatsrat; Chairman Board of

Directors, Atlas Werke AG. and Norddeutscher Lloyd.

LOEHR, ALEXANDER

Generaloberst der Luftwaffe; C.-in-C. of an Army Group in the South

East.

LOHSE, HINRICH

Gauleiter, Oberpraesident, and Reich Defense Commissioner

Schleswig-Holstein; Reich Commissioner “Ostland”; SA-Obergruppenfuehrer;

President of the Nordic Society.

LUETZOW, FRIEDRICH von

Vice-admiral; Radio Commentator on Naval matters.

MACKENSEN, EBERHARD von

Generaloberst.

MANSTEIN, FRITZ, ERICH von LEWINSKY

Generalfeldmarschall, Army Group South (early 43-April 44).

MEISSNER, DR. OTTO LEBRECHT

Staatsminister; Chef der Praesidialkanzlei, curator of Political Academy

(Berlin); president of Italo-German Society; member of the Academy of

German Law.

MEYSSNER, AUGUST

Hoeherer SS and Polizeifuehrer Serbia; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer;

Generalleutnant der Polizei; member of People’s Tribunal.

MILCH, ERHARD

Generalfeldmarschall; Staatssekretaer and permanent deputy to the Reich

Minister of Air; Inspector General of the Air Force; member of the

Armaments’ Council.

MODEL, WALTER

Generalfeldmarschall; G. in C. of an Army Group in the West.

MUELLER, HEINRICH

Heap of Amt IV (Gestapo), Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA);

SS-Gruppenfuehrer; Generalleutnant der Polizei.

MUSSERT, ANTON

Founder of Dutch Nazi Party in 1931; in December 1942 received the title

of “Leader of the Dutch people” from Hitler.

NEUHAUSEN, DR. FRANZ

General Plenipotentiary for Economics in Serbia (under the Four-Year

Plan); Consul-General; Chairman of the Board of the Yugoslav Bank; head

of Military Administration in the South East.

NEURATH, CONSTANTIN H. K. FREIHERR von

Reichsminister without Portfolio (formerly Reichsminister of Foreign

Affairs 1932, 1933, 1938); President of the Secret Cabinet Council;

Member of Reich Defense Council; Reich Protector for Bohemia and

Moravia, 1939-1943.

OHLENDORF, OTTO

Head of Amt III, SD (Security Service) of Reich Main Security Office;

permanent deputy to the Staatssekretaer Reich Ministry of Economics;

SS-Gruppenfuehrer; Generalleutnant d. Polizei.

OHNESORGE, DR. WILHELM

Reich Post Minister.

PAPEN, FRANZ von

Vice-chancellor and member of Cabinet (Feb. 1933-July 1934); Commissar

for Saar District Plebiscite; Minister to Austria; Ambassador with

special mission 1936-1938; Ambassador at large; Ambassador to Turkey

after 1939.

PAULUS, FRIEDRICH

Generalfeldmarschall, captured at Stalingrad.

PEUCKERT, RUDI

Head of Labor Division, Reich Ministry of Occupied Eastern Territories;

in charge of Agricultural Manpower under the Plenipotentiary for

Manpower.

PFEIFFER, HANS

Personal Adjutant to the Fuehrer; SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer.

POHL, OSWALD

Chief of Administration and Economic Main Office of SS;

Ministerialdirektor Reich Ministry of the Interior;

SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; General der Waffen SS.

RAEDER, ERICH, DR. h.c.

Grossadmiral and Chief of OKM until 1943; thereafter Admiralinspecteur

of German Navy; wearer of Golden Party Badge of Honor; Member of Cabinet

with rank of Reichsminister; Member of Secret Cabinet Council.

RAINER, DR. FRIEDRICH

Reichsstatthalter, Gauleiter and Reichsverteidigungskommissar of

Kaernten; head of Zivilverwaltung, North-West Yugoslavia; Supreme

Commissioner “Adriatisches Kuestengebiet”; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer.

RASCHER, SIGMUND, DR.

Hauptsturmfuehrer in the Air Forces, later transferred to the SS; in

charge of experiments on human beings at Dachau Concentration Camp.

REINECKE, HERMANN

General der Infanterie; Chief of the General Department of OKW

(Allgemeines Wehrmachtamt); Chief of the NS Political Guidance Staff

OKW; honorary member of the Special Senate of the People’s Tribunal.

REINHARDT, FRITZ

Staatssekretaer and head of Abteilung V, Reich Minister of Finance,

Berlin; expert on Labor Problems, Finance and Taxation in the Party

Chancery; SA Obergruppenfuehrer; Member of Reichstag; Hauptdienst-leiter

of Party.

REINHARDT, GEORG HANS

Generaloberst.

RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM von

Minister for Foreign Affairs (1938-1945); Ambassador to Great Britain

(1936-1938); Ambassador at Large (1935-1938); Special Delegate for

Disarmament Questions (1934-1937); Member of the Secret Cabinet Council;

Member of the Fuehrer’s Political Staff at General Headquarters

(1942-1945); Member of Reichstag; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer.

RICHTHOFEN, WOLFRAM, Frhr. von

Generalfeldmarschall.

RIECKE, HANS-JOACHIM

Head of Food and Agriculture Division, Reich Ministry of Occupied

Eastern Territories; Staatssekretaer in Reich Ministry of Food and

Agriculture; SA-Gruppenfuehrer.

RINTELEN, EMIL von

Minister (Gesandter) (for special duties); deputy head of the political

division, Foreign Office.

ROEHM, ERNST

Reichsminister, Staatskommissar, Staatssekretaer, Staatsrat, Stabs chef

der SA; Shot June 30, 1934 for alleged conspiracy.

ROSENBERG, ALFRED

Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories; Reichsleiter; head

of RL Departments for Foreign Policy and for Ideology;

SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; SA-Obergruppenfuehrer.

RUNDSTEDT, KARL RUDOLF GERD von

Generalfeldmarschall.

RUST, DR. BERNHARD

Reich Prussian Minister of Science and Education; SA-Obergruppenfuehrer.

SAUCKEL, FRITZ

Reichsstatthalter, Reich Defense Commissioner and Gauleiter of

Thuringia; Plenipotentiary-general for Manpower (Four Year Plan);

SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; SA-Obergruppenfuehrer; member of Reichstag.

SCHACHT, HJALMAR

Reich Minister without portfolio until 1943; formerly Minister of

Economics, President of the Reichsbank, and General Plenipotentiary for

the War Economy.

SCHELLENBERG, WALTER

Chief of Security Service, Occupied Territories (Amt VI) in Reich Main

Security Office; Chief of Military Office RSHA; SS-Brigadefuehrer.

SCHIRACH, BALDUR von

Reichsleiter for Youth Education; Reichsleiter; Reich Defence

Commissioner; Reichstatthalter; Mayor and Gauleiter of Vienna; Member of

Reichstag; SA-Obergruppenfuehrer; Leader of Hitler Jugend, and Leader of

Youth in the German Reich.

SCHMIDT, DR. PAUL (II)

Chief of the Bureau of the Reich Foreign Minister with the rank of

Gesandter; Ministerialdirigent; attached to Foreign Office, acted as

Hitler’s personal interpreter in all diplomatic negotiations.

SCHMUNDT

Chief of Army Personnel Dept., Generalleutnant, later Hitler’s adjutant.

SCHULZ, ERWIN

Head of Amt I (Personnel) of Reich Main Security Office

(Reichssicherheitshauptamt); SS-Brigadefuehrer.

SCHWARZ, XAVER FRANZ

Reich Treasurer of the Party; Reichsleiter; SS-Oberstgruppenfuehrer;

SA-Obergruppenfuehrer.

SCHWERIN von KROSIGK, LUTZ GRAF

Reich Minister of Finance; Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs (since May

1945).

SELDTE, FRANZ

Reich Labour Minister; Labour Minister for Prussia;

SA-Obergruppenfuehrer.

SEYSS-INQUART, DR. ARTUR

Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands; Reich Minister without

portfolio; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; member of the Reichstag; Minister in

Austrian Cabinet.

SIMON, GUSTAV

Chief of Civil Administration, Luxembourg; Reichsstatthalter,

Reichsverteidigungskommissar and Gauleiter of Moselland.

SPEER, ALBERT

Reichsleiter; Reichsminister for Armaments and War Production; head of

the Organisation Todt; General Plenipotentiary for Armaments in the Four

Year Plan; head of Armaments Office of German High Command; member of

Reichstag; member of Central Planning Board; wearer of Golden Badge of

Honor of Party.

SPERRLE, HUGO

Generalfeldmarschall, Third Air Fleet.

STOEHR, WILHELM

Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter, Westmark.

STRASSER, GREGOR

Leader of Storm Troops (SA) in Lower Bavaria; Reich Organization Leader

until 1932; executed on June 30, 1934.

STREICHER, JULIUS

Gauleiter of Franconia; Editor and Publisher of _Der Stuermer_;

SA-General; member of Reichstag.

STUCKART, DR. WILHELM

Leading Staatssekretaer in Reich Ministry of Interior Territories; Head

of the Abteilung II in this ministry.

STUDENT, KURT

Generaloberst; G. in C. of Army Group “H” on Western Front.

STUMPFF, HANS-JUERGEN

Generaloberst; C.-in-C, of Air Fleet “Reich”; member of the People’s

Tribunal.

TERBOVEN, JOSEF

Gauleiter Essen; Reich Commissioner for Occupied Norway;

SS-Gruppenfuehrer.

THIERACK, DR. OTTO GEORG

Reich Minister of Justice; SS-Brigadefuehrer; SA-Gruppenfuehrer;

President of the Academy for German Law; Head of NS Lawyer’s League.

THOMA, WILHELM RITTER von

General der Panzertruppen.

THOMAS, GEORG

General der Infanterie; head of Economy and Armaments Division, OKW

(until Oct. 1944); member of the Armaments Council.

TODT, FRITZ

Reichsleiter; 1940 Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions; killed in

1942 in crash.

UIBERREITHER, DR. SIEGFRIED

Reichsstatthalter, Reichsverteidigungskommissar and Gauleiter of

Steiermark; Head of Civil Administration in Untersteiermark.

UTIKAL

Staff Official in Rosenberg’s Ministry for Occupied Eastern Territories,

Chief of Staff of “Einsatzstab Rosenberg”.

VIETINGHOFF-SCHEEL, OTTO-HEINRICH von

Generaloberst; C.-in-C. “South”.

WAGNER, ROBERT

Reichsstatthalter, Reichsverteidigungskommissar and Gauleiter of Baden;

Chief of Civil Administration in Alsace.

WARLIMONT, WALTER

General; Deputy Chief of Operations Staff of OKW.

WEICHS, MAXIMILIAN, Freiherr, von

Generalfeldmarschall, Commander in Chief, Southeast and Army Group F.

WEIZSAECKER, ERNST FREIHERR von

German Ambassador to the Holy See.

WIEDEMANN, FRITZ

German Consul General in Tientsin and San Francisco; formerly Adjutant

to Hitler.

WINKLER, KARL

Manager of the Party Chancery.

WISLICENY, DIETER

Hauptsturmfuehrer in Slovakia; Specialist on Jewish matters in Slovakia

with Amt IV A4, Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office)

1940-1944.

WOLFF, KARL

Supreme SS and Police commander in Italy; Commander of the Italian SS

Legion; General of the Waffen-SS at the Fuehrer’s Headquarters; chief of

the personal staff of the Reichsfuehrung SS; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer.

ZEITZLER, KURT

Generaloberst.

CODE NAMES AND WORDS USED BY THE GERMAN HIGH

COMMAND FOR OPERATIONS AND MEASURES

DURING THE WAR

ACHSE Measures to be taken when Italy declared a

separate armistice.

ADLER Capture of coast between Zara and Fiume.

AFRIKA Two Italo-German convoys from Italy to

Tripoli/Bengasi, end of December 1941.

AIDA Occupation of Egypt and the Suez Canal.

ALARICH Occupation of North Italy and Unoccupied

France.

ALPENVEILCHEN Invasion of Albania.

ANGELHAKEN (_a_ and _b_) Attacks on British ships in the

North Atlantic by Scharnhorst, Gneisenau,

Hipper, etc. December 1940-January 1941.

ANTON Occupation of Unoccupied France, with Italian

cooperation.

ATTILA Occupation of Unoccupied France; renamed

ANTON on 17 June 1942 when land and sea

operations were separated.

AUGSBURG Delay attack, in Operation GELB.

AURORA “Luetzow” operating against UK-Russian

Convoys in 1942.

BARBAROSSA Attack on Russia.

BEOWULF (I & II) Occupation of East Baltic Islands, 5

November 1941.

BERLIN 11 (_a_ and _b_) Attacks on British ships in the

North Atlantic by Scharnhorst, Gneisenau,

Hipper, etc. December 1940-January 1941.

BIRKE Withdrawal of troops from Finland.

BLAUFUCHS Attacks in Baltic Islands and near Finland.

BLUECHER Part of planned attack on Caspian Sea, 1942.

BRAUNSCHWEIG Operation around Stalingrad.

CERBERUS Transfer of “Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and

Prinz Eugen” through the English Channel,

1942.

CHURCHILL Danish fishing vessel “Sursum Corda” spying

on English Coast and later called ERICH.

CORSI/CORSO Part of operation GRUEN.

DANZIG Execute attack, in Operation GELB.

DELPHIN Clearance of Dalmation Islands.

DOMINO “Scharnhorst and Gneisenau” operating against

UK-Russia convoys in 1942. Name changed

from FRONTTHEATER.

DOPPELSCHLAG Scheer and Hipper operating in Arctic, 1942.

EDELWEISS Operation around Baku and Caspian Sea.

EICHE Rescue of Mussolini, 1943.

EISBAER Attack on Cos, 1943.

EISENBAHN Moving of the “Hipper” to Drontheim.

ELISABETH Blockade running, Bay of Biscay, 1943.

EISPALAST “Koeln” operating against UK-Russia convoys.

Name changed to MEIS-ENBALZ, 1942

ERICH See CHURCHILL.

EUROPA Part of operation SEEKRIEG, planned landing

on East English coast.

FELIX Occupation of Canary Islands, North Africa,

and Gibraltar.

FEUERZANGE Combing out certain Adriatic Islands.

FEUERZAUBER Capture of Leningrad.

FISCHREIHER Operations along the Volga, to Astrakan.

FLIEGERPILZ Intended mining of Dardanelles, September

1944.

FREISCHUETZ Capture of Vis and other Adriatic Islands,

1943.

FRISCHES HAFF Defense of Danzig.

FRONTTHEATER See DOMINO.

GANGES Operation in French area.

GELB Invasion of Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

GISELA Occupation of Spain.

GRUEN Invasion of Czechoslovakia.

GUSTAV The plan to assassinate Gen. Giraud.

HAIFISCH Attacks diversionary to BARBAROSSA by troops

from Norway against Scotland, 1941.

HARPUNE See HAIFISCH.

HECHT See ANGELHAKEN.

HEFTNADEL See ANGELHAKEN.

HEKTOR Attacks on Arctic convoys.

HERBSTREISE Landing on Scotch Coast; diversion to

SEELOEWE.

HERBSTSTURM Evacuation of Adriatic coast.

HERKULES Attack on Malta, 1942.

HOFFNUNG Naval operations in Baltic and North Sea,

against Convoy P.Q. 19.

HOLZAUGE Meterological expedition to Greenland.

IKARUS Invasion of Iceland—planned 1940.

ILONA Defense measures against an Allied invasion

of Spain, changed from ISABELLA in June,

1942.

ISABELLA See ILONA.

JUNO Norwegian operations, 1940.

KIRSCHBLUETE Voyage of Japanese submarines to Europe.

KONSTANTIN Occupation of Italian-occupied Balkan

territories; changed from PRINZ EUGEN.

KORALLE Unidentified operation circa February 1944.

KAMELIE Projected annexation of Corsica, 1941.

KORSIKA See GANGES.

KURFUERST Projected operation against Gibraltar.

LABYRINTH See GANGES.

LACHSFANG Attack on Murmansk railroad near

Kandalakscha.

LANDWIRT Naval operational group in Mediterranean,

1943-44.

MANDARINE See GANGES.

MARCO POLO Operation involving collaboration with Japan.

MARITA Invasion of Greece, 1941.

MEISENBALZ See EISPALAST.

MERKUR Invasion of Crete, 1941.

META Ship cruising in Swedish water gathering

various information, 1935.

MONSUN Operation involving use of Japanese Bases.

NAUMBURG Capture of Narvik, 6 June 1940.

NORD Operation in Norway.

NORDLICHT Withdrawal of troops from Norway.

NORDMARK Bergen/Shetland Islands operations, 1940.

NORDWEST A planned landing in England.

OLDENBURG The economic counterpart of BARBAROSSA.

OTTO Annexation of Austria, 1938; also frequently

refers to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-38.

PRINZ EUGEN See KONSTANTIN.

REGENBOGEN Attacks against Arctic convoy, P.Q. 20, 1942

and 31 December 1943.

RENNTIER Operation Norway, 1941 (blocking Kola Bay).

RHEINUEBUNG Operations of the Bismarck.

ROESSELSPRUNG Attacks on convoys (P.Q. 17), 1942.

ROT The main effort in the West.

ROTBUCHE Defense of German bases in Estonia.

SAFARI Countermeasures against Danish sabotage.

SCHAMIL Paratrooper attack around Maikop.

SCHLESWIG Part of operation SEEKRIEG (Landing on East

English coast) including attack on

Norwegian convoy, February 1940.

SEELOEWE Invasion of Great Britain.

SILBERFUCHS Operation in Norway, 1941 (cutting off

Murmansk).

SILBERSTREIFEN Naval operations in Baltic and North Sea,

against convoy P.Q. 15.

SK (SEEKRIEG?) Invasion of East Coast of

England.

SONDERSTAB F Military mission to assist Iraq rebellion

1941.

SONNENBLUME Capturing Tripoli and Malta (1941).

SPORTPALAST Transfer of capital ships to Norway.

TAIFUN Autumn 1941 attack against Timoshenko army.

TAMARA Encouraging and preparing revolt of natives

in the Georgian Republic, June 1941.

TANNE Withdrawal of troops from Finland.

TANNE OST (_Aufgabe Hochland_) Occupation of Eastern

Russia.

THESEUS Attack by all arms in North Africa, May 1942.

TIRPITZ Operation against Convoy P.Q. 12, 6-9 March

1942 and return from Narvik to Drontheim on

13 March 1942.

TORERO See GANGES.

WALLENSTEIN See LANDWIRT.

WEISS Invasion of Poland.

WESERUEBUNG Invasion of Norway.

WESTRAUM Defense operation in France, 1944.

WIESENGRUND Attack on Northern Russia.

WIKINGER Attack on fighting vessels, Dogger Bank,

February 1940.

WUNDERLAND Operations in White Sea, August 1942.

ZAREWNA/ZARIN Mining operations, Murmansk Sea, 1942.

DATA CONCERNING CAPTURE OF DEFENDANTS

│ │ │

Name of │Date of internment│Place of internment│ Nation taking

defendant │ │ │ custody

│ │ │

Doenitz │ 23 May 1945│ Flensburg │Joint British &

│ │ │ American

Frank │ 30 April 1945│ Neuhaus, Ober │U. S.

│ │ Bayern │

Frick │ 2 May 1945│ Kempenhausen │U. S.

Fritzsche │ 2 May 1945│ Berlin-Tempelhof │Russia

Funk │ 13 May 1945│ Gastein │U. S.

Goering │ 8 May 1945│ Zell Am See │U. S.

Hess │ 10 May 1941│ Eaglesham, │British

│ │ Scotland │

Jodl │ 23 May 1945│ Flensburg │British & American

Kaltenbrunner │ 9 or 10 May 1945│ Aussee │U. S.

Keitel │ 13 May 1945│ Flensburg │British & American

Raeder │ 16 May 1945│ Potsdam-Babelsberg│Russia

Rosenberg │ 18 April 1945│ Flensburg │British

Sauckel │ 10 May 1945│ Berchtesgaden │U. S.

Schacht │ 5 May 1945│ Pustertal │U. S.

von Schirach │ 5 June 1945│ Schwaz, Austria │U. S.

Seyss-Inquart │ 7 May 1945│ Hamburg │British

Speer │ 23 May 1945│ Gluecksburg │British

Streicher │ 22 May 1945│ Waldring, Tyrol │U. S.

von Neurath │ 4 May 1945│ Brandt bei │France

│ │ Bludenz, │

│ │ Vorarlberg │

von Papen │ 8 April 1945│ Stockhausen │U. S.

von Ribbentrop │ 14 June 1945│ Hamburg │British

Ley (deceased) │ 15 May 1945│ Schleching, │U. S.

│ │ Kufstein │

GLOSSARY OF COMMON GERMAN AND NAZI TITLES,

DESIGNATIONS, AND TERMS, WITH THEIR

OFFICIAL ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviation German English

A

_Abschnitt_ Regional unit of SS and SD (about

divisional strength)

Abt. _Abteilung_ Division

_Abteilung German or Home Press Department

Deutsche Presse_

_Abwehr_ Intelligence and

counter-intelligence department

of OKH

ADtsch R. _Akademie fuer Academy for German Law

Deutsches Recht_

_Amt_ Office

AG _Aktien-Gesellscha Joint Stock Company

ft_

_Amtsgericht_ Local Court

_Angriffskrieg_ War of Aggression

_Anklagebehoerde_ Office of Public Prosecutor

_Ausland_ The world outside the borders of

the Reich

AO _Auslands-Organisa Foreign Organization of the NSDAP

tion_

_Auslandsdeutsche_ German citizens residing outside

Germany

APA _Aussenpolitisches NSDAP Bureau for Foreign Affairs

Amt_

aD. _ausser Dienst_ Retired

AA _Auswaertiges Amt_ Ministry for Foreign Affairs

B

_Beauftragter_ Commissioner, delegate

BdF. _Beauftragter des Delegate of the Fuehrer for the

Fuehrers fuer Total Supervision of Intellectual

die Ueberwachung and Ideological Training and

der Education of the Party

gesamtengeistige (Rosenberg)

n und

weltansschaulich

en Schulung und

Erziehung der

NSDAP_

_Beauftragter fuer Delegate for the Four Year Plan

den (Goering)

Vierjahresplan_

BdO. _Befehlshaber der Commander of the Order Police

Ordnungspolizei_

BdS. _Befehlshaber der Commander of the Security Police

Sicherheitspoliz

ei_

_Befehlsleiter_ Rank in Party Administration

_Bereichsleiter_ Rank in Party Administration

Bev. _Bevollmaechtigter Plenipotentiary

_

_Bewegung_ The movement, i.e., the Nazi Party,

including Party formations,

affiliated and supervised

organizations

_Block_ Smallest unit of the Nazi Party,

including several houses

_Blockleiter_ NSDAP leader of a block

_Botschafter_ Ambassador

BDM _Bund Deutscher German Girls’ League (female Hitler

Maedel_ Youth)

BGB _Buergerliches German Civil Code

Gesetzbuch_

C

Ch. _Chef_ Chief, head, commander, superior

_Chef der Head of civil administration (e.g.

Zivilverwaltung_ of an annexed area)

_Chefsache_ Classified document for general

officer only

D

DAF _Deutsche German Labor Front

Arbeitsfront_

DFW _Deutsches German Woman’s Organization

Frauenwerk_ (sub-organization of the NSF)

DGT _Deutscher German Municipal Congress

Gemeindetag_

DHD _Deutscher German Commercial Service (News

Handelsdienst_ Agency)

DNB _Deutsches Official German News Agency

Nachrichtenbuero

_

_Dienstleiter_ Rank in Party administration

_Drang nach Osten_ Drive to the East

_Dreierkollegium_ The College of Three (the two

Plenipotentiaries for War Economy

and Administration, and the Chief

of the OKW)

DPK _Deutsche German Diplomatic and Political

diplomatisch-pol Correspondence (News Agency of

itische the Foreign Office)

Korrespondenz_

DRK _Deutsches Rotes German Red Cross

Kreuz_

E

eh. _ehrenhalber_ Honorary

_Einsatzgruppe_ Special (Gestapo and SD) formation

used for special purposes, e.g.,

executing Nazi race policy,

policing and raiding occupied

areas

_Einsatzstab_ Special Purpose Staff

_Einsatzstab Rosenberg’s staff for looting art

Rosenberg_ treasures

EK _Eisernes Kreuz_ Iron Cross

F

_Freikorps_ Illegal terrorist military

formations of former officers and

ex-servicemen in Germany after

World War I

_Fuehrerbefehl_ Fuehrer Order

_Fuehrererlass_ Fuehrer Edict

_Fuehrerkorps_ Corps of political leaders of the

NSDAP

_Fuehrerprinzip_ Leadership principle of the NSDAP

Fuest. _Fuehrungsstab_ Operational Staff

FdR. _Fuer die True or accurate copy

Richtigkeit_

G

_Gau_ Largest NSDAP unit; 42 in the Reich

and one for all Party groups

outside the Reich

_Gauamtsleiter_ Administrative head of the Party

_Gauleitung_

_Gauleiter_ NSDAP leader of a _Gau_

_Gauleitung_ Center of Party administration in a

_Gau_

_Gaurichter_ Judge in a _Gau_ Party Court

_Gauschatzmeister_ Treasurer of the Party _Gauleitung_

_Geheimer Secret Cabinet Council

Kabinettsrat_

GKos. _Geheime Top Secret (military

Kommandosache_ classification)

_Geheime Top Secret (civil classification)

Reichssache_

Gestapo _Geheime Secret State Police. The political

Staatspolizei_ police system established in

Prussia and extended throughout

the Reich and the occupied

territories.

_Generalbeauftragt Commissioner-General

er_

_Generalbevollmaec Plenipotentiary-General

htigter_

GBA _Generalbevollmaec Plenipotentiary-General for Labor

htigter fuer den Allocation (Sauckel)

Arbeitseinsatz_

_Generalbevollmaec Plenipotentiary-General for War

htigter fuer die Economy (Schacht)

Kriegswirtschaft

_

_Generalbevollmaec Plenipotentiary-General for

htigter fuer die Administration (Frick-Himmler)

Reichsverwaltung

_

GG _Generalgouverneme Government-General (Poland)

nt_

_Generalkommissar_ Commissar-General

Genst. _Generalstab_ General Staff

_Gesandter_ Minister (diplomatic rank)

GmbH. _Gesellschaft mit Limited liability company

beschraenkter

Haftung_

_Gleichschaltung_ The process of compulsory

coordination of German

organizations of all types to

conform to the Nazi racial

pattern and accept Party control.

_Gliederungen der Party Formations

NSDAP_

H

_Hauptstelle_ Main Bureau

H. Gr. _Heeresgruppe_ Army Group

_Herausgeber_ Publisher of a Newspaper or

Publishing Firm

_Herrenvolk_ Master race

HJ _Hitlerjugend_ Hitler Youth

_Hoheitstraeger_ NSDAP bearer of sovereignty within

a specific area of Party

jurisdiction, i.e., a leader of a

Gau, Kreis, Ortsgruppe, Zelle or

Block.

HSSPf. _Hoeherer SS-und Higher SS—and Police Leader

Polizeifuehrer_

I

IA Operations officer or section; cf.

G-3

IB Supply officer or section; cf. G-l

IC Intelligence officer or section;

cf. G-2

iA. _im Auftrag_ By order of (above a signature)

iG. _im Generalstab_ Attached to the General Staff

iV. _in Vertretung_ Per (signature); acting for.

K

KZ _Konzentrationslag Concentration Camp

er_

KdF. _Kraft durch Strength through Joy (German Labor

Freude_ Front subsidiary)

_Kreis_ Largest NSDAP subdivision of a

_Gau_

_Kreisleiter_ NSDAP leader of a _Kreis_

_Kriegsmarine_ German Navy

Kripo _Kriminalpolizei_ Criminal Police

_Kripo-Leitstelle_ Regional Criminal Police office,

directly under Reich Criminal

Police authority

_Kripo-Stelle_ Smaller than _Kripo-Leitstelle_,

but also directly under Reich

Criminal Police authority

L

_Land_ One of the federal states of

Germany (e.g. Prussia, Bavaria,

Saxony, etc.)

_Landesgruppe_ The Nazi Party organization in any

country outside Germany

_Lebensraum_ Living space

_Leiter der Chief of the Party Chancellery

Parteikanzlei_ (Bormann)

Lw. _Luftwaffe_ German Air Corps

M

Mil. Bef. _Militaerbefehlsha Military Commander (commanding

ber_ non-operational troops in

occupied territories)

_Ministerrat fuer Ministerial Council for the Defense

die of the Reich

Reichsverteidigu

ng_

_Ministerialdirekt High Civil Servant (chief of a main

or_ section of a Ministry)

_Ministerialdirige High civil servant, ranking below

nt_ _Ministerialdirektor_

_Ministerialrat_ High civil servant, ranking below

_Ministerialdirigent_

_Mit deutschem With German salute (equivalent to

Gruss_ _Heil Hitler_)

MdR. _Mitglied des Member of the Reichstag

Reichstags_

N

NS _Nationalsozialism National Socialism

us_

NSBO _Nationalsozialist National Socialist Factory Cells

ische Organization

Betriebszellen

Organisation_

NSDAP _Nationalsozialist National Socialist German Workers’

ische Deutsche Party; Nazi Party

Arbeiterpartei_

_Nationalsozialist NS German Students’ Bund

ischer

Deutscher_

_Nationalsozialist NS University Teachers’ Bund

ischer

Dozentenbund_

NSFK _Nationalsozialist NS Flying Corps

isches

Fliegerkorps_

NSF _Nationalsozialist NS Women’s League

ische

Frauenschaft_

NSK _Nationalsozialist NS Official News Agency

ische

Korrespondenz_

NSKK _Nationalsozialist NS Motor Corps

ischer

Kraftfahrkorps_

_Nurnberger Nurnberg anti-Semitic laws

Gesetze_

O

OB _Oberfehlshaber_ Commander in Chief

ObKom. _Oberkommando_ High Command

OKL _Oberkommando der Air Force High Command

Luftwaffe_

OKM _Oberkommando der Navy High Command

Marine_

OKW _Oberkommando der Armed Forces High Command

Wehrmacht_

OKH _Oberkommando des Army High Command

Heeres_

OSAF _Oberste Supreme Command of the SA

SA-Fuehrung_

ORPO _Ordnungspolizei_ Order Police

OT _Organisation Labor Corps organized by Todt

Todt_

_Ortsgruppe_ Largest NSDAP subdivision of a

_Kreis_

_Ortsgruppenleiter NSDAP leader of an _Ortsgruppe_

_

_Ostland_ Baltic countries and White Russia

_Ostmark_ Austria

P

PPK _Parteiamtliche Official Party Examining Commission

Pruefungskommiss for the Protection of National

ion zum Schutze Socialist Publications

des

NS-Schriftums_

Pg. _Parteigenosse_ Party Member (male)

Pgn. _Parteigenossin_ Party Member (female)

_Preussische Prussian Law collection

Gesetzsammlung_

R

_Ratsherr_ Town Councillor

_Reiehsamtsleiter_ Head of a department in the Party

_Reichsleitung_

RAD _Reichsarbeitsdien Reich Labor Service

st_

RAM _Reichsaussenminis Reich Foreign Minister (Ribbentrop)

ter_

RDB _Reichsbund der German Civil Servant’s League

Deutschen

Beamten_

_Reichsdeutsche_ German citizens residing in Germany

RFSS _Reichsfuehrer SS_ Reich Leader of the SS (Himmler)

RGBl. _Reichsgesetzblatt Reich Legal Gazette

_

_Reichshawptamtsle Head of the central departments of

iter_ the Party

_Reichsinnenminist Minister of Interior (Frick,

er_ succeeded by Himmler)

RJF _Reichsjugendfuehr Reich Youth Leadership

ung_

_Reichskriegsminis Reich War Minister

ter_

RKK _Reichskulturkamme Reich Chamber of Culture

r_

_Reichsleiter_ Member of the Supreme Party

Directorate, in general the top

level leader of an NSDAP function

_Reichsleiter fuer Reich Leader of Youth Education

die (von Schirach)

Jugenderziehung_

_Reichsleiter des Head of the Legal Office of the

Reichsrechtsamte Party (Hans Frank)

s_

RL _Reichsleitung_ Supreme Party Directorate

RM _Reichsmark_ The mark; pre-war value about $.40

RMfdbO. _Reichsminister Reich Minister for Occupied Eastern

fuer die Territories (Rosenberg)

besetzten

Ostgebiete_

_Reichsministerium Reich Ministry for Popular

fuer Enlightenment and Propaganda

Volksaufklaerung (Goebbels)

und Propaganda_

_Reichsnaehrstand_ Reich Food Estate (compulsory

association of all persons

engaged in agriculture) (Backe)

_Reichsparteitag_ Reich Party Rally (annual Nazi

Congress at Nurnberg)

RPL _Reichspropagandal Party Propaganda Department

eitung_

_Reichsregierung_ Reich Cabinet

RRG _Reichs-Rundfunkge Reich Broadcasting Corporation

ssellschaft_

RSHA _Reichssichterheit Reich Main Security Office

shauptamt_ (Kaltenbrunner)

RT _Reichstag_ Reich Parliament

_Reichstatthalter_ Reich Governor (of a _Land or

Reichsgau_)

RVR _Reichsvefteidigun Reich Defense Council

gsrat_

_Reichswehr_ The German Army

S

_Schulungslager_ A Party training camp for political

indoctrination

SS _Schulzstaffel_ Elite Corps of NSDAP (black

shirts); personal bodyguard of

the Fuehrer, used for military

and policing purposes

SD _Sicherheitsdienst Security Service; Intelligence and

_ counter-intelligence Agency of SS

SIPO _Sicherheitspolize Security police. This was the name

i_ given to the Gestapo and Kripo

considered jointly

_Staatssekretaer_ Under Secretary of a Ministry and

permanent civil service head of a

ministry

Stalag _Stammlager_ Prisoner of War Camp (for enlisted

men)

_Standartenfuehrer Rank in a Party formation, roughly

_ equivalent to Colonel

_Stapo_ _Gestapo_, Secret Police

_Stapo-Leitstelle_ Regional _Gestapo_ office, directly

under central command of

_Gestapo_

SA _Sturmabteilung_ Storm Troops of NSDAP (brown

shirts)

_Systemzeit_ System Era (Nazi designation of the

Era of Weimar Republic,

1918-1933)

T

TV _Totenkopfverbaend Death-Head units of the SS

e_ (Concentration Camp Guards)

TO _Transozean_ Transocean (News Agency)

TP _Transkontinent Transcontinent Press (News Agency)

Press_

_Treuhaender der Trustee of Labor

Arbeit_

U

_Unterstaatssekret Civil Servant, of a grade lower

aer_ than _Staatssekretaer_

V

VT _Verfuegunstruppen SS Units for Special Tasks

_

_Verlag_ Publishing House

VOBl _Verordnungsblatt_ Ordnance Gazette

_Vierjahrsplan_ Four Year Plan

_Volk_ Folk, people, race: all persons of

German blood

VDA _Volksbund fuer League for Germanism Abroad

das Deutschtum

im Ausland_

_Volksdeutscher_ A person of German blood but of

non-German citizenship residing

abroad, and considered a member

of the German people

_Volksgericht_ People’s Court, Highest Court for

Political Crimes

_Volksgemeinschaft People’s or racial community; the

_ world-wide community composing

all people of German blood

_Volksgenosse_ Racial comrade; a person of German

blood regardless of citizenship

W

WSS _Waffen-SS_ Combat SS

_Wehrkreis_ Military District

_Wehrkreiskommando Military authority in charge of a

_ _Wehrkreis_

_Wehrmacht_ Armed Forces (Army, Navy, and Air

Force)

WFSt _Wehrmacht-Fuehrun Operational Staff of Armed Forces

gsstab_

_Wehrwirtschaftsfu Title awarded to prominent

ehrer_ industrialists for merit in

armaments drive

Wi-Rue _Wehrwirtschafts War Economy and Armament Office (in

und OKW)

Ruestungsamt_

_Weltanschauung_ World-view or philosophy

WHW _Winterhilfswerk_ Winter Relief Organization

WVHA _Wirtschaft-und-Ve Economic and Administration Main

rwaltungs Office (of SS) in charge of

Hauptamt_ Concentration Camps

Z

_Zeitung_ Newspaper

_Zelle_ NSDAP subdivision of an

_Ortsgruppe_

_Zellenleiter_ NSDAP leader of a Party cell

zbV _zur besonderen For special missions or duties

Verwendung_

zV _zur Verfuegung_ At disposal

TABLE OF COMMISSIONED RANKS IN THE GERMAN ARMY,

NAVY, AND SS WITH THEIR EQUIVALENTS IN THE

AMERICAN MILITARY FORCES

│ │ ┃ │

_Germany_ ┃ _United States_

│ │ ┃ │

_Army_ │ _Navy_ │ _SS_ ┃ _Army_ │ _Navy_

│ │ ┃ │

Leutnant │Leutnant zur │Untersturmfueh┃2d Lieutenant │Ensign

│ See │ rer ┃ │

Oberleutnant │Oberleutnant │Obersturmfuehr┃1st Lieutenant│Lieutenant

│ zur See │ er ┃ │ (j.g.)

Hauptmann │Kapitaenleutna│Hauptsturmfueh┃Captain │Lieutenant

│ nt │ rer ┃ │

Major │Korvettenkapit│Sturmbannfuehr┃Major │Lieut.

│ aen │ er ┃ │ Commander

Oberstleutnant│Fregattenkapit│Obersturmbannf┃Lieut. Colonel│Commander

│ aen │ uehrer ┃ │

Oberst │Kapitaen zur │Standartenfueh┃Colonel │Captain

│ See │ rer ┃ │

│ │ Oberfuehrer ┃ │

Generalmajor │Konteradmiral │Brigadefuehrer┃Brig. General │Commodore

Generalleutnan│Vizeadmiral │Gruppenfuehrer┃Major General │Rear Admiral

t │ │ ┃ │

General der │Admiral │Obergruppenfue┃Lieut. General│Vice Admiral

Infanterie, │ │ hrer ┃ │

Artillerie, │ │ ┃ │

etc. │ │ ┃ │

Generaloberst │Generaladmiral│Oberstgruppenf┃General │Admiral

│ │ uehrer ┃ │

Generalfeldmar│Grossadmiral │Reichsfuehrer ┃General of the│Admiral of the

schall │ │ ┃ Army │ Fleet

★ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1947——O833GS

TRANSCRIBER NOTES

Punctuation and spelling has been maintained except where obvious

printer errors have occurred including missing periods or commas for

periods. American spelling occurs throughout the document. There are

differences in spellings of cities depending on whether the source is

the prosecutor or part of a quoted statement. Multiple occurrences of

the following spellings which differ and are found throughout this

volume are as follows:

Luxemberg Luxembourg

Esthonia Estonia

Kiew Kiev

Czecho-Slovakia Checkoslovakia

Although some sentences may appear to have incorrect spellings or verb

tenses, the original text has been maintained as presented and read into

the record and reflects the actual translations of the various national

documents presented as material for the trial(s). This volume has no

German, Polish, Czech, Russian or other eastern European diacritics,

only French diacritics. As a result, Goering and Fuehrer are spelled

without umlauts throughout.

In preparing this ebook, proofers noted several errors of fact between

the text and the documents being referenced. These are noted in the text

as [_sic_] next to the original text. These are:

Page 141: "The SA Conquors Rastenberg," 26 January, 1936[_sic_]:

p. 7. The correct date was 26 January, =1935=.

Page 196: “_The Purge of 20[_sic_] June 1934._” Should read

“_The Purge of =30= June 1934._”

Page 196: Himmler referred to this same event in his Posen

speech when he is quoted “Just as we did not hesitate on June

20[_sic_] 1934, to do the duty we were bidden . . .” should also

read June =30= 1934.

Page 695: A photograph published in “_Der Stuermer_” in April

1937 . . . “Ritual murder at Polna . . . by the Jews Hilsner,

Erdmann[_sic_], and Wassermann, taken from a contemporary

postcard” . . . The actual “_Der Stuermer_” edition has the

photograph caption “by the Jews Hilsner, =Erbmann=, and

Wassermann . . .”

Page 700: “The fire-brigades, which had been notified

immediately, saw to it that the fire was continued[_sic_] to the

original outbreak.” The actual document states that the fire was

=confined=, and not continued, to the original outbreak.

An attempt has been made to produce this ebook in a format as close as

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