' Berlin W 8 Behrenstr. 39a
Telephone: 165861 9 February 1938 [Pencil note] : Transmitted to Mr. Keppler on 11 Feb 38 by Miss Cest (?)
| initial] G. 11 Feb 38
Central Office,
for the Organizations of National Economy of the NSDAP Chief: W. Keppler [Letterhead]
To the Prime Minister, General Fieldmarshall Goering
Dear Generalfieldmarshall!
Yesterday information reached me to the effect that Landesleiter Leopold also on his part has started negotiations with
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Chancellor [Bundeskanzler] Schuschnigg. Thereupon I have asked the Foreign Office to investigate the truth of this information and, in case it was true, to take care that such negotiations not be held because they would merely disturb the proceeding of . the other negotiations.
Just now I get word from the Foreign Office that they received a report from the embassy in Vienna confirming the facts. I therefore would like to know whether it would not be more appropriate to forbid Landesleiter Leopold and the other members of the country's leadership [Landesleitung] to negotiate with Chancellor [Bundeskanzler] Schuschnigg as well as with any Austrian government authorities as to the execution of the pact of 11 July 1936 if it is not done after contacting and in agreement with the authorities in charge in the Reich.
* Heil Hitler!
Sincerely yours (s) Wilh. Keppler
[Pencil note on margin] :
Agreed. Minister Hess or Mr. Bormann can give this order best! Keppler ought to ask therefor by telephone!
[Initial]
Letter to Goering on political negotiations in Austria, and the option of preventing them
Authors
Wilhelm Keppler (NSDAP economic office; agent in Vienna (1938))
Wilhelm Keppler
businessman; Reich Commisionner (1882-1960)
- Born: 1882-12-14 (Heidelberg)
- Died: 1960-06-13 (Friedrichshafen)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: engineer; entrepreneur; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: Reichskommissar (period: 1938-01-01 through 1939-01-01); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 09 February 1938
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
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-3472
Citation: IMT (page 2308)
HLSL Item No.: 452329
Trial Issue
Document Summary
PS-3472: Letter from Keppler to Goring, 9 february 1938: discussions between Nsdap leader (landesleiter) Leopold and Chancellor Schuschnigg; advisability of prohibiting such discussions
PS-3472: Signed Letter from Keppler in Vienna to Goering in Berlin, dated 9 February 1938. Keppler states that he has asked the Foreign Office to investigate a matter for him and has just received word from the Foreign Office concerning the same. With this information, Keppler asked Goering for further instructions.