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Streicher

The defendant Streicher between 1932-1945 was: a member of
the Nazi Party, a member of the Reichstag, a General in the
S.A., Gauleiter of Franconia, Editor-in-Chief of the anti-
Semitic newspaper " Der Sturmer " The defendant Streicher
used the foregoing positions, his personal influence, and
his close connection with the Fuehrer in such a manner that:
he promoted the accession to power of the Nazi conspirators
and the consolidation of their control over Germany set
forth in Count One of the Indictment; he authorised,
directed and participated in the Crimes against Humanity set
forth in Count Four of the Indictment, including
particularly the incitement of the persecution of the Jews
set forth in Count One and Count Four of the Indictment.

Keitel:

The defendant Keitel between 1938-I945 was: Chief of the
High Command of the German Armed Forces, member of the
Secret Cabinet Council, member of the Council of Ministers
for the Defence of the Reich, and Field Marshal.  The
defendant Keitel used the foregoing positions, his personal
influence and his intimate connection with the Fuehrer in
such a manner that: he promoted the military preparations
for war set forth in Count One of the Indictment; he
participated in the political planning and preparation of
the Nazi conspirators for Wars of Aggression and Wars in
Violation of International Treaties, Agreements and
Assurances set forth in Counts One and Two of the
Indictment; he executed and assumed responsibility for the
execution of the plans of the Nazi conspirators for Wars of
Aggression and Wars in Violation of International Treaties,
Agreements and Assurances set forth in Counts One and Two

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of the Indictment; he authorised, directed and participated
in the War Crimes set forth in Count Three of the
indictment, and the Crimes against Humanity set forth in
Count Four of the Indictment, including particularly the War
Crimes and Crimes against Humanity involved in the ill-
treatment of prisoners of war and of the civilian population
of occupied territories.

Jodl:

The defendant Jodl between 1932-1945 was: Lieut.-Colonel,
Army Operations Department of the Wehrmacht, Colonel, Chief
of OKW Operations Department, Major-General and Chief of
Staff OKW and Colonel-General. The defendant Jodl used the
foregoing positions, his personal influence, and his close
connection with the Fuehrer in such a manner that: he
promoted the accession to power of the Nazi conspirators and
the consolidation of their control over Germany set forth in
Count One of the Indictment; he promoted the preparations
for war set forth in Count One of the Indictment; he
participated in the military planning and preparation of the
Nazi conspirators for Wars of Aggression and Wars in
Violation of International Treaties, Agreements and
Assurances set forth in Counts One and Two of the
Indictment; and he authorised, directed and participated in
the War Crimes set forth in Count Three of the Indictment
and the Crimes against Humanity set forth in Count Four of
the Indictment, including a wide variety of crimes against
persons and property.

Raeder:

The defendant Raeder between 1928-1945 was: Commander-in-
Chief of the German Navy, Generaladmiral. Grossadmiral,
Admiralspektor of the German navy, and a member of the
Secret Cabinet Council. The defendant Raeder used the
foregoing positions and his personal influence in such a
manner that: he promoted the preparations for war set forth
in Count One of the Indictment; he participated in the
political planning and preparation of the Nazi conspirators
for Wars of Aggression and Wars in Violation of
International Treaties, Agreements and Assurances set forth
in Counts One and Two of the Indictment; he executed, and
assumed responsibility for the execution of the plans of the
Nazi conspirators for Wars of Aggression and Wars in
Violation of International Treaties, Agreements and
Assurances set forth in Counts One and Two of the
Indictment; and he authorised, directed and participated in
the War Crimes set forth in Count Three of the Indictment,
including particularly War Crimes arising out of sea
warfare.

Donitz :

The defendant Donitz between 1932-1945 was: Commanding
Officer of the Weddigen U-boat Flotilla, Commander-in-Chief
of the U-boar arm, Vice-Admiral, Admiral, Grossadmiral and
Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, Adviser to Hitler,
and Successor to Hitler as head of the German Government.
The defendant Donitz used the foregoing positions, his
personal influence, and his intimate connection with the
Fuehrer in such a manner that he promoted the preparations
for war set forth in Count One of the Indictment; he
participated in the military planning and preparation of the
Nazi conspirators for Wars of Aggression and Wars in
Violation of International Treaties, Agreements and
Assurances set forth in Counts One and Two of the
Indictment; and he authorised, directed and participated in
the War Crimes set forth in Count Three of the Indictment,
including particularly the crimes against persons and
property on the High Seas.

Fritzsche:

The defendant Fritzsche between I933-1945 was: a member of
the Nazi Party, Editor-in-Chief of the official German news
agency, "Deutsche Nachrichten Buro", Head of the Wireless
News Service and of the Home Press

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Division of the Reich Ministry of Propaganda,
Ministerialdirektor of the Reich Ministry of Propaganda,
Head of the Radio Division of the Propaganda Department of
the Nazi Party, and Plenipotentiary for the Political
Organisation of the Greater German Radio.  The defendant
Fritzsche used the foregoing positions and his personal
influence to disseminate and exploit the principal doctrines
of the Nazi conspirators set forth in Count One of the
Indictment, and to advocate, encourage and incite the
commission of the War Crimes set forth in Count Three of the
Indictment and the Crimes against Humanity set forth in
Count Four of the Indictment including, particularly, anti-
Jewish measures and the ruthless exploitation of occupied
territories.

APPENDIX B

STATEMENT OF CRIMINALITY OF GROUPS AND ORGANISATIONS

The statements hereinafter set forth, following the name of
each Group or Organisation named in the Indictment as one
which should be declared criminal, constitute matters upon
which the prosecution will rely inter alia as establishing
the criminality of the Group or Organisation :

Die Reichsregierung (Reich Cabinet)

"Die Reichsregierung (Reich Cabinet)" referred to in the
Indictment consists of persons who were:

(i) Members of the ordinary cabinet after 30th January,
1933, the date on which Hitler became Chancellor of the
German Republic. The term "ordinary cabinet " as used herein
means the Reich Ministers, i.e., heads of departments of the
central government; Reich-Ministers without portfolio; State
ministers acting as Reich Ministers; and other officials
entitled to take part in meetings of this cabinet.

(ii) Members of der Ministerrat fur die Reichsverteldigung
(Council of Ministers for the Defence of the Reich).

(iii) Members of der Gebeimer Kabinettsrat (Secret Cabinet
Council).

Under the Fuehrer, these persons functioning in the
foregoing capacities and in association as a group,
possessed and exercised legislative, executive,
administrative and political powers and functions of a very
high order in the system of German government. Accordingly,
they are charged with responsibility for the policies
adopted and put into effect by the Government including
those which comprehended and involved the commission of the
crimes referred to in Counts One, Two, Three and Four of the
Indictment.

Das Korps der Politischen Leiter der Nationalsozialistischen
Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (Leadership Corps of the Nazi
Party)

"Das Korps der Politischeii Leiter der
Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (Leadership
Corps of the Nazi Party)" referred to in the Indictment
consists of persons who were at any time, according to
common Nazi terminology, Politische Leiter " (Political
Leaders) of any grade or rank.

The Politischen Leiter comprised the leaders of the various
functional offices of the Party (for example, the
Reichsleitung or Party Reich Directorate, and the
Gauleitung, or Party Gau Directorate), as well as the
territorial leaders of the Party (for example, the
Gauleiter).

The Politischen Leiter were a distinctive and elite group
within the Nazi Party proper, and as such were vested with
special prerogatives. They were organised according to the
leadership principle and were charged with planning,
developing and imposing upon their followers the policies of
the Nazi Party. Thus the

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territorial leaders among them were called Hoheitstrager, or
bearers of sovereignty, and were entitled to call upon and
utilise the various Party formations when necessary for the
execution of Party policies.

Reference is hereby made to the allegations in Count One of
the Indictment showing that the Nazi Party was the central
core of the Common Plan or Conspiracy therein set forth.
The Politischen Leiter, as a major power within the Nazi
party proper, and functioning in the capacities above
described and in association as a group, joined in the
Common Plan or Conspiracy, and accordingly share
responsibility for the crimes set forth in Counts One, Two,
Three and Four of the Indictment.

The prosecution expressly reserves the right to request, at
any time before sentence is pronounced, that Politische
Leiter of subordinate grades or ranks or of other types or
classes, to be specified by the prosecution, be excepted
from further proceedings in this Case No. 1, but without
prejudice to other proceedings or actions against them.

Die Schutzstaffeln der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen
Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the SS) including Der
Sicherheitsdienst (commonly known as the SD)

Die Schutzstaffeln der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen
Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the SS) including Der
Sicherheitsdienst (commonly known as the SD) and all
offices, departments, services, agencies, branches,
formations, organisations and groups of which it was at any
time comprised or which were at any time integrated in it,
including but not limited to, the Allgemeine SS, the Waffen
SS, the SS Totenkopf Verbande, SS Polizei Regimente and Der
Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsfuehrers-SS (commonly known as
the SD).

The SS, originally established by Hitler in I925 as an elite
section of the SA to furnish a protective guard for the
Fuehrer and Nazi Party leaders, became an independent
formation of the Nazi Party in 1934 under the leadership of
the Reichsfuehrer-SS, Heinrich Himmler. It was composed of
voluntary members, selected in accordance with Nazi
biological, racial and political theories, completely
indoctrinated in Nazi ideology and pledged to uncompromising
obedience to the Fuehrer. After the accession of the Nazi
conspirators to power, it developed many departments,
agencies, formations and branches and extended its influence
and control over numerous fields of governmental and Party
activity. Through Heinrich Himmler, as Reichsfuehrer-SS and
Chief of the German Police, agencies and units of the SS and
of the Reich were joined in operation to form a unified
repressive police force. Der Sicherheitsdienst des
Reichsfuehrers-SS '(commonly known as the SD), a department
of the SS, was developed into a vast espionage and counter-
intelligence system which operated in conjunction with the
Gestapo and criminal police in detecting, suppressing and
eliminating tendencies, groups and individuals deemed
hostile or potentially hostile to the Nazi Party, its
leaders, principles and objectives, and eventually was
combined with the Gestapo and criminal police in a single
security police department, the Reich Main Security Office.

Other branches of the SS developed into an armed force and
served in the wars of aggression referred to in Counts One
and Two of the Indictment. Through other departments and
branches the SS controlled the administration of
concentration camps and the execution of Nazi racial,
biological and resettlement policies. Through its numerous
functions and activities it served as the instrument for
ensuring the domination of Nazi ideology and protecting and
extending the Nazi regime over Germany and occupied
territories.  It thus participated in and is responsible for
the crimes referred to in Counts One, Two, Three and Four of
the Indictment.

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Die Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police, commonly
known as the Gestapo)

"Die Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police, commonly
known as the Gestapo) " referred to in the Indictment
consists of the headquarters, departments, offices, branches
and all the forces and personnel of the Geheime
Staatspolizei organised or existing it any time after 30th
January, 1933, including the Geheime Staatspolizei of
Prussia and equivalent secret or political police forces of
the Reich and the components thereof.

The Gestapo was created by the Nazi conspirators immediately
after their accession to power, first in Prussia by the
defendant Goering and shortly thereafter in all other States
in the Reich.  These separate secret and political police
forces were developed into a centralised, uniform
organisation operating through a central headquarters and
through a network of regional offices in Germany and in
occupied territories. Its officials and operatives were
selected on the basis of unconditional acceptance of Nazi
ideology, were largely drawn from members of the SS, and
were trained in SS and SD schools.  It acted to suppress and
eliminate tendencies, groups and individuals deemed hostile
or potentially hostile to the Nazi Party, its leaders,
principles and objectives, and to repress resistance and
potential resistance to German control in occupied
territories. In performing these functions it operated free
from legal control, taking any measures it deemed necessary
for the accomplishment of its missions.

Through its purposes activities and the means it used, it
participated in and is responsible for the commission of the
crimes set forth in Counts One, Two, Three and Four of the
Indictment.

Die Sturmabteilungen der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen
Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the SA)

"Die Sturmabteilungen der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen
Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the SA)" referred to in
the Indictment was a formation of the Nazi Party under the
immediate jurisdiction of the Fuehrer, organised on military
lines, whose membership was composed of volunteers serving
as political soldiers of the Party. It was one of the
earliest formations of the Nazi Party and the original
guardian of the National Socialist movement.  Founded in
1921 on a voluntary militant formation, it was developed by
the Nazi conspirators before their accession to power into a
vast private army and utilised for the purpose of creating
disorder, and terrorising and eliminating political
opponents.  It continued to serve as an instrument for the
physical, ideological and military training of Party members
and as a reserve for the German Armed Forces.  After the
launching of the wars of aggression, referred to in Counts
One and Two of the Indictment, the SA not only operated as
an organisation for military training but provided auxiliary
police and security forces in occupied territories, guarded
prisoner-of-war camps and concentration camps and supervised
and controlled persons forced to labour in Germany and
occupied territories.

Through its purposes and activities and the means it used,
it participated in and is responsible for the commission of
the crimes set forth in Counts One, Two, Three and Four of
the Indictment.

General Staff and High Command of the German Armed Forces

The "General Staff and High Command of the German Armed
Forces'  referred to in the Indictment consist of those
individuals who, between February 1938, and May, 1945, were
the highest commanders of the Wehrmacht, the Army, the Navy,
and the Air Forces.  The individuals comprising this group
are the persons who held the following appointments :

Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsniarine (Commander-in-Chief of
the Navy).
Chef (and, formerly, Chef des Stabes) der Seckriegsleitung
(Chief of Naval War Staff).

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Oberbefehlsheber des Heeres (Commander-in-Chief of the
Army).
Chef des Generalstabes des Heeres (Chief of the General
Staff of the Army).
Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe (Commander-in-Chief of the
Air Force).
Chef des Generalstabes der Luftwaffe (Chief of the General
Staff of the Air Force).
Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht (Chief of the High
Command of the Armed Forces).
Chef des Fuhrungstabes des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
(Chief of the Operations Staff of the High Command of the
Armed Forces).
Stellvertretender Chef des Fuhrungstabes des Oberkommandos
der Wehrmacht (Deputy Chief of the Operations Staff of the
High Command of the Armed Forces).
Commanders-in-Chief in the field, with the status of
Oberbefehlshaber, of the Wehrmacht, Navy, Army, Air Force.

Functioning in such capacities and in association as a group
at the highest level in the German Armed Forces
Organisation, these persons had a major responsibility for
the planning, preparation, initiation and waging of illegal
war as set forth in Counts One and Two of the Indictment and
for the War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity involved in
the execution of the Common Plan or Conspiracy set forth in
Counts Three and Four of the Indictment.


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