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Extracts from a book, on the violence employed in the Nazi seizure of power, including the use of concentration camps for Communist and Social Democratic leaders and the mass arrests of Communists after the Reichstag fire

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Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
Member of: Sturmabteilung
Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

Date: 1934

Literal Title: Extracts from Goering Aufbrau Einer Nation (1934)

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-2324

Document Book No: Prosecution B

Citation: IMT (page 255)

HLSL Item No.: 450174

Notes:The document book table of contents translates the title as Rise of a Nation.

Trial Issues

Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

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PS-2324: Comments made by Goring on his relationship to Hitler, and on his reorganization of the security police and the secret state police