World War II
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE (Deputy Chief Prosecutor for the United Kingdom): If the Tribunal please, when the Tribunal adjourned I had just dealt with the last of the two Norway documents, which I how put in as Exhibits GB-140 and GB-141. Their numbers are 004-PS and D-629.
These measures enabled Schacht to embark upon what he himself has termed a “daring credit policy,” including the secret financing of a vast amount of armaments through the so-ca...
1. VOLUME VSIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE (Deputy Chief Prosecutor for the United Kingdom): If the Tribunal please, when the Tribunal adjourned I had just dealt with the last of the two Norway doc...
9. Part I, Page 180. I submit it to the Tribunal under Exhibit Number RF-12(Document Number 1902-PS). Göring by this decree did away with all the administrative offices of the Four Year Plan which had been charged with the recruitment of labor; he tran...
7. Part I, Page 1016, Document 1395-PS; the law of 30 January 1934transferring the sovereignty of the German states to the Reich, _Reichsgesetzblatt_, 1934, Part I, Page 75, Document 3068-PS; the German Municipality Act of 30 January 1935, whi...
4. Part I, Page 777, our Document Number 3301-PS, found at Page 107 of thedocument book. This is the basic law on the administrative reorganization of Austria. It was enacted in April 1939, a little more than a year before Schirach became Governor. Th...
2. Part III, at Pages 918 and 920. Dr. Frank speaks:“Recently you have requested us to supply a further 140,000. I have pleasure in informing you officially that in accordance with our agreement of yesterday, 60 percent of the ne...
8. Chapter VII of the Treaty of Versailles discusses criminalresponsibility incurred in the launching and waging of the conflict which was then the Great War. Article 227 accused William of Hohenzollern, previously Emperor of Germany, of...
11. Chapter 2—Sequestering of the production of the occupied countries:When the Germans invaded the countries of Western Europe great disorder was created as the result. The population fled before the advance of the enemy. Industries were at a stan...
14. Chapter III, requisitions not followed by payment.Apart from that which they managed to buy with the help of crowns which were deposited in their accounts under the pretext of the maintenance of the army of occupation and of cl...
10. Part I, Page 558. I submitted this to the Tribunal at the beginning ofThis agreement shows that the treatment of foreign workers was subject to control by the inspection department of the Allocation of Labor (Arbeitseinsatz). The Defendant Sauckel...
6. Volume 2, the 1940 volume of the diary, which is Exhibit Number USA-614:“I am extremely glad, Mr. Reich Commissioner and Reich Minister, to assure you, in this hour of your departure, that the months of our collaboration with you belong to the most...
18. Chapter 1, German seizure of means of payment.To enslave the country from an economic point of view, the most simple procedure was to secure the possession of the greater part of the means of payment and to make impossible...
16. Chapter 2, the black market.As in all other occupied countries, in Holland the Germans seized considerable quantities of merchandise on the black market, in violation of the legislation on rationing which...
15. Chapter 1, German seizure of means of payment.I have already had the privilege, Gentlemen, of explaining under what conditions and within what limit, by virtue of the Hague Convention, the occupying power may raise contribu...
5. Volume 6, Page 183:“A complete unanimity between the Führer and the National Socialist confidants inside of Austria existed. . . . If the National Socialists’ rising succeeded so quickly and thoro...
19. Chapter 2, clandestine purchases, black market.According to a secret report on the black market, called “Final Report of the Control Office of the Military Commander in Belgium and in the North of France, Concerning the Lega...
12. Chapter I, German seizure of the means of payment; costs of occupation.Article 49 of the Hague Convention stipulates that if the occupant levies a tax the money will only be for the army of occupation or for the administration of the territory.
13. Chapter II, clearing.In 1931 Germany faced financial difficulties, which she used as a pretext to declare a general moratorium on all her foreign obligations. Nevertheless, to be able to continue, t...
17. Chapter 1 deals with the German seizure of the means of payment. Thesecond chapter will be devoted to clandestine purchases and an account of the black market. Chapter 3 will deal with purchases of apparent regularity while the fourth chapter wi...