The case for SPEER (concluded).
Oral evidence of defendant Speer, given on June 20th & 21st, 1946:
on Party and State positions; Central Planning Board;
Employment in armament industry of foreign workers and their recruitment;
of prisoners of war; of concentration camp inmates; Organisation Todt;
Treatment of forced labour; of Jews; Establishment of "blocked"
industries;
The last phase of the war; Hitler's scorched earth orders for occupied
territories and Germany-defendant's counteractions; His plan for
assassination of Hitler, Bormann and Goebbels; His efforts to shorten the
war; His assumption of joint responsibility.
Examined on the 20th and 21st by Counsel for other defendants.
Submission of documents
The case for NEURATH.
Oral evidence of defendant Neurath, given on June 22, 24, 25 and 26,
1946:
on Diplomatic career; Attitude to Church and religion; to Jewish question;
Concentration camps.
Appointment as Foreign Minister; Continuance in office after Nazi seizure
of power: his conservative political trend and Nazi terror methods;
Germany's withdrawal from Disarmament Conference and League of Nations;
Introduction of universal military service; Reoccupation of Rhineland;
Austria; Conference of 5.11.37 - his resignation.
Activities as adviser on foreign policy:
Austria's Anschluss; Assurances to Czechoslovakia; Munich conference.
Appointment as Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia and his
administrative programme; Police: its independence of Reich Protector - his
interventions; its repressive measures, particularly shooting of
student demonstration leaders; Suppression of Czech autonomy: Reich
Protector's dependence on Reich authorities and their directives;
Encroachments on administration; on cultural life; on Church and religion;
on economy; Germanization plans; Reasons for his resignation.
Examined on June 25 and 26, 1946 by Counsel for other defendants.
Tribunal's final ruling on time limit for concluding speeches
The case for NEURATH (concluded)
Oral evidence given on 26.6.46 by Dr. Gerhard Koepke, Ministerial Director
in Foreign Ministry on:
Defendant's character and political trend;
His attitude:
to Nazi Party,
to Jewish question.
Austria
Oral evidence given by Hans H. Diekhoff, State Secretary to Foreign Ministry on:
Defendant's character and political trend;
Rhineland;
Austria;
Defendant's resignation as Foreign Minister
Oral evidence given by Dr. Hans H. Voelkers, Cabinet Chief of
Reich Protector's Office
on:
Defendant's character and political trend;
His attitude:
to Jewish question.
Reich Protectorate:
Independence of police;
Shooting of student demonstration leaders
Oral evidence given in PART 10 by Karl Stroelin, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
on:
Defendant's character and political trend;
His attitude:
to Nazi Party;
Defendant's resignation as Foreign Minister;
Reich Protectorate:
Shooting of student demonstration leaders
Oral evidence given in PART 12 by Dr. K. v. Burgsdorf, Under Secretary to
Protectorate Government
on:
Reich Protectorate:
Independence of police;
Shooting of student demonstration leaders;
Germanization plans
Examined by Counsel for other defendants.
The case for FRITZSCHE.
Oral evidence of defendant Fritzsche, given on June 26, 27, 28 and 29,
1946 on: Early life; Attitude to Nazi movement; Journalistic career and
activities; Scope of his position in Propaganda Ministry.
Principles and trend of his press and radio propaganda regarding:
Nazi racial doctrine: Master race; race hatred; Aggressive actions;
particularly against U.S.S.R.; Policy in occupied territories; Jewish
question; Concentration camps; Foreign labour.
The Athenia case; Lynch law against "terror fliers"; Werewolf organization.
Examined by Counsel for other defendants.
Oral evidence given on June 28 and 29, 1946 by Moritz von Schirrmeister,
Goebbels' personal press expert,
on:
Defendant's position in Propaganda Ministry;
Racial doctrine;
Aggressive actions;
Jewish question
The case for BORMANN
Presentation of affidavit by defendant's secretary Else Kruger on his
presumable death on 1.5.45
(for oral evidence of witness Erich Kempka on same subject, see Part 18, 3.7.46)
Submission of documents on defendant's attitude
to Church and religion,
to treatment of foreign labour
The Katyn Forest massacre of Polish prisoners of war (see Part 7, and Part 15)
Oral evidence of witnesses
for the Defence:
Friedrich Ahrens, Colonel;
Reinhard von Eichborn, Lieutenant;
Eugen Oberhauser, Lt.-General
for the Prosecution:
Boris Bazilevsky, Professor of Astronomy, Deputy Mayor of Smolensk during
German occupation;
Dr. Marko Antonov Markov, Professor of Forensic Medicine at Sofia
University, Bulgarian representative on International Medical Commission
set up by Germany for investigation of Katyn case
(For continuation of evidence see Part 18).
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