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Extract from a speech on the use of eastern territories to provide food for Germany, while the Russian population will need to relocate further east as a non-European nation
IMT
Authors
Alfred Rosenberg (Commissioner for Ideological Training; Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories)
Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Tallinn)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany; Russian Empire; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: administrator; architect; journalist; opinion journalist
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party; Nazi Party
- Member of: Corps Rubonia; Militant League for German Culture; Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Date: 20 June 1941
Literal Title: Extract from a speech of Reichsleiter Rosenberg before the closest participants in the problem of the East, on 20 June, 1941.
Defendant: Alfred Rosenberg
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-1058
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 147
Document Book No: Prosecution P: Aggression: USSR
Citations: IMT (page 1214), IMT (page 7898), IMT (page 7983)
HLSL Item No.: 450921
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
PS-1058: Speech of Rosenberg before the people most intimately concerned with the Eastern Problem
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-1058: Rosenberg’s speech to those most closely concerned with the eastern problem, 20 June 1941. two objectives to be attained by the Russian campaign: on the economic side, Germany’s nutrition and war economy must be made secure; and politically, it is necessary, by dividing up Russia into. four states, to preserve Germany forever from pressure from the east
Blue Series Subject Index
PS-1058: OCCUPIED EASTERN TERRITORIES -- Policy -- Rosenberg’s responsibility, Judgment -- speech, oral evidence / OCCUPIED EASTERN TERRITORIES -- Judgment -- Rosenberg’s policy -- in Yugoslavia / OCCUPIED EASTERN TERRITORIES -- Judgment -- Rosenberg oral evidence -- in Yugoslavia / TORIES -- Administration -- NSDAP Leadership Corps Defense plea / NSKK -- Occupied Eastern Territories: Activities in -- Administration, Defense plea / GENEVA CONVENTION -- Slavs, extermination of / U.S.S.R, -- -- Rosenberg’s policy, oral evidence / U.S.S.R., AGGRESSION -- Aims / U.S.S.R., EASTERN, TERRITORIES -- - PS; USA-317, L-221) -- Rosenberg’s policy, oral evidence / SLAVS -- -- Rosenberg’s attitude, Defense plea / U.S.S.R., EASTERN, TERRITORIES -- Shitomir -- Starvation of the population / U.S.S.R., AGGRESSION, PLANNING AND PREPARATION -- Rosenberg’s participation, Defense plea -- Plans, oral evidence