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Order to establish a Reich Propaganda Office in Austria

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Joseph Goebbels (Dr., Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda)

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Joseph Göbbels

Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister

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  • Born: 1897-10-29 (Rheydt)
  • Died: 1945-05-01 (Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany
  • Occupation: autobiographer; demagogue; diarist; journalist
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Wissenschaftlicher Katholischer Studentenverein Unitas Stolzenfels zu Bonn
  • Significant person: Adolf Hitler
  • Position held: Gauleiter (of: Berlin; period: 1926-11-09 through 1945-05-01; replaces: Ernst Schlange); Q104164731; Reich Chancellor (period: 1945-04-30 through 1945-05-01; replaced by: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk; replaces: Adolf Hitler); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany

Hans Pfundtner (Ministry of the Interior; legal author)

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Hans Pfundtner

German politician, civil law notary and lawyer (1881-1945)

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  • Born: 1881-07-15 (Gusev)
  • Died: 1945-04-25 (Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: lawyer; notary; politician
  • Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party
  • Member of: Corps Masovia Königsberg
  • Military rank: captain
  • Educated at: University of Königsberg

Fritz Reinhardt (state secretary, Finance Ministry)

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Fritz Reinhardt

German politician (1895-1969)

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  • Born: 1895-04-03 (Ilmenau)
  • Died: 1969-06-17 (Regensburg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: economist; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Sturmabteilung
  • Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic; secretary of state from Germany
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/763401

Reich Legal Gazette (Reichsgesetzblatt)

Date: 31 March 1938

Literal Title: 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt . . . Order concerning the Establishment of a Reich Propaganda Office in Vienna, March 31, 1938

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-2935

Citation: IMT (page 588)

HLSL Item No.: 450726

Notes:This document was presented for judicial notice without an exhibit number.

Trial Issues

IMT count 2: crimes against peace (wars of aggression) (IMT) Wars of aggression

1938 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 350
Order concerning the Establishment of a Reich Propaganda Office in Vienna, March 31, 1938
By virtue of article III of the law of March 13, 1938, concerning the reunion of Austria with the German Reich (RGBl I, p. 237), it is ordered as follows:
For the territory of the province of Austria a Reich Propaganda Office shall be established with its seat in Vienna.
Berlin, March 31, 1938. . .
Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment
and Propaganda
" Dr. Goebbels
Reich Minister of the Interior By deputy : Pfundtner
Reich Minister of Finance
By deputy : Reinhardt

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