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Cover letter to Alfred Rosenberg and letter to Max Amann directing that the distribution of printing paper for religious publications be severely restricted, in favor of politically helpful literature

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Authors

Martin Bormann (deputy to Hess; Chief of Party Chancellery, 1941-45)

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Martin Bormann

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)

Born: 1900-07-17 1900-06-17 (Halberstadt)
Died: 1945-05-02 (Berlin)
Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
Occupation: farmer; military personnel; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Member of: Schutzstaffel
Participant in: Aryanization; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant; since: 1945-11-19)
Military rank: Obergruppenführer; soldier

Date: 08 March 1940

Literal Title: Concerns: Confessional writing

Defendants: Martin Bormann, Alfred Rosenberg

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: PS-89

Document Book No: Prosecution H

Citation: IMT (page 255)

HLSL Item No.: 450427

Notes:Another copy of PS 89 was entered as US exhibit 360.

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… Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT, NMT 11)

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

PS-89: Letter from Bormann to Rosenberg re persecution of the Protestant Church

Red Series Doc Descriptions

PS-89: Letter from Bormann to Rosenberg, 8 March 1940, with. enclosure: letter from Bormann to Amann, 8 March 1940, concerning stoppage of allocation of paper for religious works to make more paper available for political literature

Blue Series Subject Index

PS-89: CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Religious publications, suppression of / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- a / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Religious services, suppression of, in the Armed Forces / POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL OPPONENTS, -- Priests and clergy, persecution as a matter of policy -- Publications, suppression -- presentation