29th June 1939
The Reichs Fuehrer-SS Chief of Security HQ.
Ill 1123 AZ: g.Rs.
/39 POS./Kt.
[Stamp]
Foreign Office Rm 38 g. Rs. received 29th June 1939 1 Enel.
[Stamp] Most Secret
To the Reich Foreign Minister
SS Major General [Gruppenfuehrer] v.Ribbentrop
Wilhelmstrasse 63.
Berlin W. 8.
Dear Party comrade v. Ribbentrop.
Enclosed please find a further report about the "Woldemaras Supporters". As already mentioned in the previous report the "Woldemaras Supporters" are still asking for help from the Reich. I therefore ask you to examine the question of financial support, brought up again by the "Woldemaras Supporters", set forth on page 4 para 2 of the enclosed report, and to make a definite decision.
The request of the "Woldemaras Supporters" for financial support could, in my opinion, be granted. Deliveries of arms should not, however, be made, under any circumstances.
Heil Hitler!
Yours
Heydrich.
Enclosure. F 12 348.
A/L/2
Translation of Extract to RM .33 Most Secret In the middle of May it was decided to form a secret Lithuanian national socialist party. Its leaders are the most trustworthy members of the "Woldemaras Supporters". The direction of the work within the Officer's Corps is said to be in the hands of old members of the "Woldemaras Supporters". Besides that, they are said to have one assistant who is on the personal staff of President Smetana. In order to make full use of antisemitic feeling in Lithuania it is intended to stage pogroms against the Jews. The sum of 100,000 Lit (about 41,000 Mark) is required
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for this illegal work. Besides that a leading "Woldemaras Supporter" is enquiring whether the Reich would send weapons as well. The reply was given to the effect that money would possibly be provided but weapons, however, would definitely not be delivered.
The fight against the Jews would result in a further increase in the escape of Jewish capital, causing Lithuania to be more dependent than ever on the German market.
Letter to Ribbentrop on a pro-Nazi group in Lithuania (Woldemaras Supporters), recommending financial support for anti-Jewish actions but not delivery of weapons
Authors
Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of Security Police (SIPO) and Security Service (SD))
Reinhardt Heydrich
Most Horrible German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
- Born: 1904-03-07 (Halle (Saale))
- Died: 1942-06-04 (Prague)
- Country of citizenship: German Reich
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; fencer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Schutzstaffel (series ordinal: 10120)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer; SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
Date: 29 June 1939
Defendant: Joachim Ribbentrop, von
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-2953
Citation: IMT (page 2344)
HLSL Item No.: 451920
Notes:For a report on the Woldemaras Supporters, see document PS 2952.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
PS-2953: Report on the Woldemaras Kovemont in Lithuania and letter of transmittal from Heydrich to Ribbentrop
PS-2953: Letter from Heydrich to Ribbentrop, 29 June 1939 (with two enclosures), concerning support of the so-called "woldemaras adherents" in Lithuania for the purpose of founding a secret national socialist party and arranging pogroms