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Instructions, on Hitler's order, to plan for a military occupation of Danzig, conditioned on "a politically favourable situation"

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Wilhelm Keitel (Field Marshal, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces)

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Wilhelm Keitel

German field marshal

Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Military rank: general field marshal
Military branch: artillery
VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425

Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)

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Adolf Hitler

Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)

Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
Member of: Nazi Party
Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin

Date: 24 November 1938

Literal Title: Re: The Fuehrer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces OKW No. 236/38 . . . 1st Supplement to Instruction dated 21/10/38.

Defendants: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Wilhelm Keitel, Erich Raeder

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: C-137

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 33

Document Book No: Prosecution 2

Citation: IMT (page 988)

HLSL Item No.: 450765

Trial Issues

Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4, 11) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) IMT count 2: crimes against peace (wars of aggression) (IMT) Wars of aggression

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

C-137: Plan for surprise occupation of Danzig

Doc Book Tables of Contents

C-137: Keitel's Appendix of 24 November 1938, Hitler's Order of 21 October 1938. Not introduced

Blue Series Subject Index

C-137: DANZIG -- Occupation: Military preparations, orders and plans -- Planning of occupation / DANZIG -- Incorporation into the Reich -- Ribbentrop oral evidence / AGGRESSION AGAINST POLAND, PLANNING AND PREPARATIONS -- -- Occupation, Hitler’s orders transmitted by Keitel, Ribbentrop oral evidence / POLAND -- XXII-439, 442-443; postponed in view of Anglo-Polish Treaty, Schmidt oral evidence -- Danzig fannexation -- Hitler. discussion 26 Sep. 1939, impossibility of peace negotiations, DahJlerus oral evidence