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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 ROS-
ENBERG, 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, AL-
BERT SPEER, CONSTANTIN von NEURATH, and HANS
FRITZSCHE, Individually and as Members of Any of the
Following Groups or Organizations to which They Respec-
tively Belonged, Namely: DIE REICHSREGIERUNG
(REICH CABINET); DAS KORPS DER POLITISCHEN
LEITER DER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUT-
SCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI (LEADERSHIP CORPS OF
THE NAZI PARTY); DIE SCHUTZSTAFFELN DER
NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN DEUTSCHEN ARBEIT-
ERPARTEI (commonly known as the "SS") and including
DIE SICHERHEITSDIENST (commonly known as 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 de-
fined in Appendix B of the Indictment,

Defendants.

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20. Constantin von Neurath

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21. Hans Fritzsche

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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

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1. Principal Officials of the Reich Government

2. Principal Officials of the Nazi Party

1055

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3. Heads of the Armed Forces

1063

4. Index of Individuals

1064

CODE NAMES AND WORDS USED BY THE GERMAN HIGH COM-

MAND FOR OPERATIONS AND MEASURES DURING THE WAR

1078

DATA CONCERNING CAPTURE OF DEFENDANTS

1083

GLOSSARY OF COMMON GERMAN AND NAZI TITLES, DESIGNA-

TIONS, AND TERMS, WITH THEIR OFFICIAL ABBREVIATIONS 1084

TABLE OF COMMISSIONED RANKS IN THE GERMAN ARMY,

NAVY, AND SS WITH THEIR EQUIVALENTS IN THE AMERI-

CAN MILITARY FORCES

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Chapter XV

CRIMINALITY OF GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS

1. THE LAW UNDER WHICH NAZI ORGANIZATIONS ARE ACCUSED OF BEING CRIMINAL

The following argument on the law and policy involved in the prosecution's charge that certain Nazi groups and organizations should be declared criminal, was delivered by Justice Jackson before the Tribunal on 28 February 1946.

May it please the Tribunal:

The unconditional surrender of Germany created, for the victors, novel and difficult problems of law and administration. Since it is the first such surrender of an entire and modernly organized society, precedents and past experiences are of little help in guiding our policy toward the vanquished. The responsibility implicit in demanding and accepting capitulation of a whole pеоple must of necessity include a duty to discriminate justly and intelligently between opposing elements of the population which bore dissimilar relations to the policies and conduct which led to the catastrophe. This differentiation is the objective of those provisions of the Charter which authorize this Tribunal to declare organizations or groups to be criminal. Understanding of the problem which the instrument attempts to solve is essential to its interpretation and application.

A. The Problem of the Nazi Organizations.

One of the sinister peculiarities of German society at the time of the surrender was that the State itself played only a subordinate role in the exercise of political power, while the really drastic controls over German society were organized outside its nominal government. This was accomplished through an elaborate network of closely knit and exclusive organizations of selected volunteers oath-bound to execute, without delay and without question, the commands of the Nazi leaders.

The

These organizations penetrated the whole German life. country was subdivided into little Nazi principalities of about 50 households each, and every such community had its recognized party leaders, party police, and its undercover party spies. These were combined into larger units with higher ranking leaders, executioners and spies. The whole formed a pyramid of power out

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