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Memorandum on meeting with Hitler on "the planned operation in the East," including the goal to destroy the Russian army and prevent its recovery
IMT
Authors
Franz Halder (Chief of General Staff of the Army (1935-42))
Franz Halder
general and chief of staff in Nazi Germany
- Born: 1884-06-30 (Würzburg)
- Died: 1972-04-02 (Aschau im Chiemgau)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diarist; military personnel; soldier; writer
- Participant in: Hostages Trial (date: 1947-07-08; role: affiant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-02-01; role: affiant)
- Significant person: Ernst Dehner (role: colleague, friend); Hermann Foertsch (role: acquaintance); Siegfried Handloser (role: acquaintance, colleague); Walther von Brauchitsch (date: 1941-01-01; role: superior)
- Military rank: Generaloberst
- Military branch: Imperial German Army
Date: 05 December 1940
Literal Title: Annex I[.] Report to the Fuehrer on 5 December 1940
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-1799
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 131
Document Book No: Prosecution P: Aggression: USSR
Citation: IMT (page 1166)
HLSL Item No.: 450926
Notes:Halder is identified as the author in the Blue Set, vol. 28, p. 383.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-1799: Plans about the attack on Russian from the 5th December 1940 on (Enclosure 1-5); the following enclosures deal with the Russian Campaign up to the 22 August 1941
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-1799: From the war diary of the "wehrmachtfÜhrungsstab’’: report by Halder, chief of staff of the army, to Hitler, 5 December 1940, on the planned operation in the east