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Minutes of a conference of Himmler and SS and Justice officials concerning the treatment of criminals, Jews, Gypsies, Russians, and Poles
NMT 1
Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Otto Georg Thierack (President of People's Court; Minister of Justice, 1942-45)
Otto Georg Thierack
German politician (1889-1946)
- Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen)
- Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
- Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg
- Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal)
- Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)
Date: 18 September 1942
Literal Title: Discussion with Reich Fuehrer of SS Himmler on 18.9.42 in his field Headquarters in the presence of State Secretary Dr. Rothenberger . . .
Total Pages: 3
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-654
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 562
Document Book No: Prosecution 19
Citation: NMT 1 (page 10695)
HLSL Item No.: 219
Notes:The minutes are signed "Th.," indicating Thierack. The discussion called for "special treatment" in cases in which judicial sentences "are not severe enough."
Trial Issues
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-654: Notes on a Discussion between Thierack and Himmler re Coordination of the Ministry of Justice with the SS in Criminal Law Cases
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-654: Report by Reich Minister of justice Thierack on a conference with Himmler on September 18, 1942. subjects of discussion: inadequate penal sentences to be adjusted through "special treatment" by police; asocial elements (to include in principle all Jews, Gypsies, Russians and Ukrainians) to be transferred from prison to Himmler’s custody and annihilated by work; administration of justice by the people; corporal punishment ordered by Hitler, and other problems
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-654: Thierack memorandum, 18 September 1942:
Discussion with Reichsfuehrer of 3S Himmler on 18.9.42 in his Field Headquarters in the presence of State Secretary Dr. Rothenberger, SS-Gruppenfuehrer Streckenbach and SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Bender
September 18, 1942, Thierack's notes on discussion with Himmler concerning delivery of Jews to Himmler for extermination through work.
Discussion between SS officials and Rothenberger re special treatment by police where judicial sentences not severe enough.
Discussion between SS officials and Rothenberger re special treatment by police where judicial sentences not severe enough. See Book No. I.
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