Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression: Volume II

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

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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
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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
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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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