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Regulation excluding clergymen from membership in the NSDAP, and requiring party members who become clergymen to leave the party
IMT
Authors
Martin Bormann (deputy to Hess; Chief of Party Chancellery, 1941-45)
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: 14 July 1939
Literal Title: Regulation No. 140/39[.] Subject: Admission of Clergymen and Students of Theology into the NSDAP
Defendant: Martin Bormann
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-840
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 355
Document Book No: Prosecution H
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450435
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…
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-840: Bormann directive in re exclusion of ministers and priests from the MSDAP
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-840: Decree by Bormann, 14 July 1939, prohibiting the admission of clergymen and students of theology into the Nsdap
Blue Series Subject Index
PS-840: CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- PS; USA-358, R-101 -- Membership prohibited for the clergy / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- PS; USA-358, R-101 -- Theology students, exclusion from the Party / NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY -- . Corps Defense plea -- Theology students, exclusion from the Party -- incompatibility of, Bormann’s attitude, Raeder oral evidence / NATIONAL SOCIALISM -- Indoctrination: Anti-Semitism -- Leadership Corps Defense plea -- fin Defense plea / NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY -- . Corps Defense plea -- Membership prohibited for the clergy -- incompatibility of, Bormann’s attitude, Raeder oral evidence