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Affidavit on the killing of SA leaders (and others) in 1934, at Himmler's urging and with Goering's participation

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Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)

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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

Literal Title: Affidavit

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-2950

Document Book No: Prosecution F

Citation: IMT (page 255)

HLSL Item No.: 450378

Notes:Another copy of this document was later entered as US exhibit 448, on the SS.

Trial Issues

Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4, 11) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

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PS-2950: Sworn statement of Frick, dealing with the so-called Roehm revolt in June 1934

Red Series Doc Descriptions

PS-2950: Affidavit by Frick, 19 November 1945, concerning the murders in connection with the so-called "rohm-putsch" on 30 June 1934

Blue Series Subject Index

PS-2950: SS -- Roehm purge / NSDAP -- Terror methods, Gisevius oral evidence -- To suppress opposition / NSDAP -- Roehm purge: As a means to eliminate political opposition / ATROCITIES -- Roehm purge: Eberstein oral evidence -- Mass murder in connection with -- X-486