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NAZI CONSPIRACY AND AGGRESSION

Volume 1

Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis
Criminality

U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington • 1946

Sold in Complete Sets
by the
Superintendent of Documents
U.S.
Government Printing Office
Washington 25, D.C.

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A Collection of Documentary Evidence and Guide Materials Prepared by the
American and British Prosecuting Staffs for Presentation before the
International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg, Germany, in the case of

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, and THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

—against—

HERMANN WILHELM GOERING, RUDOLF HESS, JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP, ROBERT LEY,
WILHELM KEITEL, ERNST KALTENBRUNNER, ALFRED ROSENBERG, HANS FRANK, WILHELM
FRICK, JULIUS STREICHER, WALTER FUNK, HJALMAR SCHACHT, GUSTAV KRUPP von BOHLEN
und HALBACH, KARL DOENITZ, ERICH RAEDER, BALDUR von SCHIRACH, FRITZ SAUCKEL,
ALFRED JODL, MARTIN BORMANN, FRANZ von PAPEN, ARTUR SEYSS-INQUART, ALBERT SPEER,
CONSTANTIN von NEURATH, and HANS FRITZSCHE, Individually and as Members of Any
of the Following Groups or Organizations to which They Respectively Belonged,
Namely: DIE REICHSREGIERUNG (REICH CABINET); DAS KORPS DER POLITISCHEN LEITER
DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (LEADERSHIP CORPS OF THE
NAZI PARTY); DIE SCHUTZSTAFFELN DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN
ARBEITERPARTEI (commonly known as the "SS") and including DIE SICHERHEITSDIENST
(commonly known a the "SD"); DIE GEHEIME STAATSPOLIZEI (SECRET STATE POLICE,
commonly known as the "GESTAPO"); DIE STURMABTEILUNGEN DER N.S.D.A.P. (commonly
known as the "SA") and the GENERAL STAFF and HIGH COMMAND of the GERMAN ARMED
FORCES all as defined in Appendix
B of the Indictment,

Defendants.

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CONTENTS

Page

Chapter XV.

Criminality
of Groups and Organizations

1

1.

The
law under which Nazi organizations are accused of being criminal

1

2.

The
Nazi Party Leadership Corps

23

3.

The
Reich Cabinet

91

4.

The
Sturmabteilung (SA)

133

5.

The
Schutzstaffeln (SS)

173

6.

The
Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) and Sicherheitsdients (SD)

248

7.

The
General Staff and High Command of the Armed Forces

316

XVI.

Individual Responsibility of Defendants

416

1.

Hermann
Wilhelm Goering

417

2.

Rudolf
Hess

466

3.

Joachim
von Ribbentrop

489

4.

Wilhelm Keitel

528

5.

Alfred Jodl

565

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

19.

20.

21.

Biographical Data

1055

1.

Principal officials of the Reich Government

1055

2.

Principal officials of the Nazi Party

1062

3.

Heads of the Armed Forces

1063

4.

Index of individuals

1064

Code names and words used by the German High Command for
operations and measures during the war

1055

Data concerning capture of defendants

1055

Glossary of common German and Nazi titles, designations, and
terms, with their official abbreviations

1055

Table of commissioned ranks in the German Army, Navy, and SS
with their equivalents in the American military forces

1055

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