I, Wilhelm Frick, being first duly sworn, depose and say:
I was Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration [Generalbevoll-maechtigter fuer die Reichsverwaltung] from the time when this office was created, until 20 August 1B43. Heinrich Himmler was my deputy in this capacity. Before the outbreak of the war my task as Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration was the preparation of organization in the event of war, such as for instance, the appointment of liaison men in the different ministries who would keep in touch with me. As Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration, I, together with the Plenipotentiary for Economy and the OKW formed what was called a "3-Man College" [Dreierkollegium]. We also were members of the Reich Defense Council [Reichsverteidigungsrat], which was supposed to plan
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preparations and decrees in case of war, which later on were published by the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich. Since, as soon as the war started, everything had to be done speedily and there would have been no time for planning, such measures and decrees were prepared in advance in case of war. All one then still had to do was to pull out of the drawer the war orders that had been prepared. Later on, after the outbreak of the war, these decrees were enacted by the Ministerial Council for the defense of the Reich.
[signed] Dr. Wilhelm Frick
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of November 1945 in Nürnberg, Germany.
[signed] Warren F. Farr
. Major, Judge Advocate General's Department
Army of the United States
Affadivit concerning Frick's role as plenipotentiary for Reich administration, and the preparations for the war by the "Three Man College" and the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich
Authors
Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)
Wilhelm Frick
German Nazi official (1877-1946)
- Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
- Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 19 November 1945
Defendant: Wilhelm Frick
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-2986
Citation: IMT (page 1728)
HLSL Item No.: 451303
Notes:In the transcript, the PS number is mis-typed as 2186; 2986 is correct. For an official notice on the Three Man College, see document PS 2957.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Administration & organization (all cases) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…