Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression CONSPIRACY WITH JAPAN
The Nazi plans of aggression called for use of Asiatic
allies and they found among the Japanese men of kindred mind
and purpose. They were brothers, under the skin.
Himmler records a conversation he had on January 31, 1939
with General Oshima, Japanese Ambassador at Berlin. He
wrote:
"Furthermore, he (Oshima) had succeeded up to now to
send 10 Russians with bombs across the Caucasian
frontier. These Russians had the mission to kill
Stalin. A number of additional Russians, whom he had
also sent across, had been shot at the frontier." (2195-PS).
On September 27th, 1940, the Nazis concluded a German-
Italian-Japanese ten-year military and economic alliance by
which
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those powers agreed "to stand by and cooperate with one
another in regard to their efforts in Greater East Asia and
regions of Europe respectively wherein it is their prime
purpose to establish and maintain a new order of things ******
***."
On March 5th, 1941, a top secret directive was issued by
defendant Keitel. It stated that "The Fuehrer has ordered
instigation of Japan's active participation in the war" and
directed that "Japan's military power has to be strengthened
by the disclosure of German war experiences and
support of a military, economic and technical nature has to
be given." The aim was stated to be to crush England
quickly, "thereby keeping the United States out of the war."
(C-75) .
On March 29th, 1941, Ribbentrop told Matsuoka, the Japanese
Foreign Minister, that the German Army was ready to strike
against Russia. Matsuoka reassured Ribbentrop about the Far
East. Japan, he reported, was acting at the moment as though
she had no interest whatever in Singapore, but "intends to
strike when the right moment comes." (1877-PS). On April
5th, 1941, Ribbentrop urged Matsuoka that entry of Japan
into the war would "hasten the victory" and would be more in
the interest of Japan that of Germany since it would give
Japan a unique chance to fulfill her national aims and to
play a leading part in Eastern Asia (1882-PS).
The proofs in this case will also show that the leaders of
Germany were planning war against the United States from its
Atlantic as well as instigating it from its Pacific
approaches. A captured memorandum from the Fuehrer's
headquarters, dated October 29th, 1940, asks certain
information as to air bases and supply and reports further
that
"The Fuehrer is at present occupied with the question of the occupation of the Atlantic islands with a view to the prosecution of war against America at a later date. Deliberations on this subject are being embarked upon here." (76-PS).
On December 7th, 1941, a day which the late President
Roosevelt declared "will live in infamy," victory for German
aggression seemed certain. The Wehrmacht was at the gates of
Moscow. Taking advantage of the situation, and while her
plenipotentiaries were creating a diplomatic diversion in
Washington, Japan without declaration of war treacherously
attacked the United Sates at Pearl Harbor and the
Philippines. Attacks followed on the British Commonwealth
and The Netherlands in
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the Southwest Pacific. These aggressions were met in the
only way they could be met, with instant declarations of war
and with armed resistance which mounted slowly through many
long months of reverse until finally the Axis was crushed to
earth and deliverance for its victims was won.
CRIMES IN THE CONDUCT OF WAR
Even the most warlike of peoples have recognized in the name
of humanity some limitations on the savagery of warfare.
Rules to that end have been embodied in international
conventions to which Germany became a party. This code had
prescribed certain restraints as to the treatment of
belligerents. The enemy was entitled to surrender and to
receive quarter and good treatment as a prisoner of war. We
will show by German documents that these rights were denied,
that prisoners of war were given brutal treatment and often
murdered. This was particularly true in the case of captured
airmen, often my countrymen.
It was ordered that captured English and American airmen
should no longer be granted the status of prisoners of war.
They were to be treated as criminals and the Army was
ordered to refrain from protecting them against lynching by
the populace (R-118). The Nazi Government, through its
police and propaganda agencies, took pains to incite the
civilian population to attack and kill airmen who crash-
landed. The order, given by the Reichsfuehrer SS, Himmler,
on August 10th, 1943, directed that,
"It is not the task of the police to interfere in
clashes between German and English and American fliers
who have bailed out."
This order was transmitted on the same day by SS
Obersturmbannfuehrer Brand of Himmler's Personal Staff to
all Senior Executive SS and Police officers, with these
directions:
"I am sending you the inclosed order with the request
that the Chief of the Regular Police and of the
Security Police be informed. They are to make this
instruction known to their subordinate officers
verbally." (R-110).
Similarly, we will show Hitler's top secret order, dated
October 18th, 1942, that commandos, regardless of condition,
were "to be slaughtered to the last man" after capture (498-
PS). We will show the circulation of secret orders, one of
which was signed by
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Hess, to be passed orally to civilians, that enemy fliers or
parachutists were to be arrested or liquidated (062-PS). By
such means were murders incited and directed.
This Nazi campaign of ruthless treatment of enemy forces
assumed its greatest proportions in the fight against
Russia. Eventually all prisoners of war were taken out of
control of the Army and put in the hands of Himmler and the
SS (058-PS). In the East, the German fury spent itself.
Russian prisoners were ordered to be branded. They were
starved. I shall quote passages from a letter written
February 28th, 1942 by defendant Rosenberg to defendant
Keitel:
"The fate of the Soviet prisoners of war in Germany is on the contrary a tragedy of the greatest extent. Of 3.6 millions of prisoners of war, only several hundred thousand are still able to work fully. A large part of them has starved, or died, because of the hazards of the weather. Thousands also died from br>spotted fever.
The camp commanders have forbidden the civilian population to put food at the disposal of the prisoners, and they have rather let them starve to death.
In many cases, when prisoners of war could no longer keep up on the march because of hunger and exhaustion, they were shot before the eyes
of the horrified civilian population, and the corpses
In numerous camps, no shelter for the prisoners of war
was provided at all. They lay under the open sky during rain or snow. Even tools were not made available to dig holes or caves.
Finally, the shooting of prisoners of war must be mentioned. For instance, in various camps, all the 'Asiatics' were shot." (081-PS).
Civilized usage and conventions to which Germany was a party
had prescribed certain immunities for civilian populations
unfortunate enough to dwell in lands overrun by hostile
armies. The German occupation forces, controlled or
commanded by men on trial before you,
committed a long series of outrages against the habitants of
occupied territory that would be incredible except for
captured orders and the captured reports showing the
fidelity with which these orders were executed.
We deal here with a phase of common criminality designed by
the conspirators as part of the common plan. We can
appreciate why these crimes against their European enemies
were not of a
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casual character but were planned and disciplined crimes
when we get at the reason for them. Hitler told his officers on August 22nd, 1939 that "The main objective in Poland is the destruction of the enemy and not the reaching of a certain geographical line." (1014-PS). The project of
deporting promising youth from occupied territories was
approved by Rosenberg on the theory that "a desired
weakening of the biological force of the conquered people is
being achieved." (031-PS). To Germanize or to destroy was
the program. Himmler announced, "Either we win over any good
blood that we can use for ourselves and give it a place in
our people or, gentlemen -- you may call this cruel, but nature
is cruel -- we destroy this blood." As to "racially good
types" Himmler further advised, "Therefore, I think that it
is our duty to take their children with us to remove them
from their environment if necessary by robbing or stealing
them." (L-70). He urged deportation of Slavic children to
deprive potential enemies of future soldiers.
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