1
Search the archive
Letter to the Reich Commissioner for the East, concerning the treatment of Jews
NMT 4
Authors
Braeutiger (Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories; (spelling uncertain))
Otto Bräutigam
German lawyer and diplomat
- Born: 1895-05-14 (Wesel)
- Died: 1992-04-30 (Coesfeld)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; jurist; lawyer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1936-10-01)
- Employer: Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
- Educated at: University of Münster
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/54516218
Date: 18 December 1941
Literal Title: Subject: Jewish Question re correspondence of 15 Nov. 1941
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3666
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 461
Document Book No: Prosecution 18
Citation: NMT 4 (page 1035)
HLSL Item No.: 4388
Notes:The letter of 15 Nov 1941 is contained in document PS 3663. The issue was whether Jews should be executed without restraint; Braeutiger advises that no "economic considerations" should impede the SS and police measures.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-3666: Photostatic copy of top secret letter, re execution of Jews in the Eastern territories
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-3666: Letter from the Ministry of the east to the Reich Commissioner for the east, 18 December 1941: in the matter of the execution of Jews, no consideration is in principle to be given to economic interests (found on the premises of the Ministry of the east in Berlin)
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-3666: 18 December 1941 - Reich Minister of Occupied Eastern Territories to the Reich Commissioner for the East stating that economic considerations should not be considered in settling Jewish problem.
Letter from BRAEUTIGAM of the Reich Ministry of the Occupied Eastern Territories to the Reich Commissionar for the East, dated 18 December 1941, advising him that commercial consideration should not interfere solution of the Jewish question.