AFFIDAVIT
I, Gottfried Boley, being- first duly sworn, declare:
I joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1937. The last position I held in the German government was Ministerialrat in the Reich Chancellery.
In February or March 1943 I attended a conference on the solution of the Jewish problem as the representative of the Reich Cabinet Counselor, Dr. Ficker. According to my best recollection, this conference was called by the chief of the Security Po-
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lice and SD, Dr. Kaltenbrunner, and the invitations to the conference were sent out in his name. The conference was held in Berlin in the offices of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. This meeting was presided over by Eichmann who was in charge of Jewish problems in the Gestapo. In his opening remarks, Eichmann referred to former conferences that had apparently taken place in the office of the chief of the Security Police and SD, and said that this time he wished to discuss the matter more thoroughly. He stated that the Jewish question had to be solved quickly and definitely. Representatives of the chief of the Security Police and SD who attended the conference assured those present that the remaining Jews were to be sent forcibly to concentration camps or be sterilized. Those present at the conference must have got the impression that the aim was to exterminate the Jewish people.
[signed] Dr. Gottfried Boley
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of November 1945.
[signed] Whitney R. Harris,
Lieut., US Naval Reserve
Affidavit concerning a meeting called by Kaltenbrunner (early 1943) at which Eichmann discussed the solution to the "Jewish question," including sterilization and the concentration camps
Authors
Gottfried Boley (Dr. (law), Reich chancellery and finance ministry)
Gottfried Boley
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 05 November 1945
Literal Title: Affidavit
Defendant: Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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-2645
HLSL Item No.: 451628
Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)
Notes:According to Boley, the meeting indicated "that the aim was to exterminate the Jewish people." This document was apparently not entered as evidence in the trial.