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Extract from a speech, on Jews as a danger to European culture, and Schirach's removal of Jews from Vienna to "the ghetto of the East"
IMT
Authors
Baldur Schirach, von (Nazi youth leader; governor of Vienna)
Baldur von Schirach*
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907-1974)
- Born: 1907-05-09 (Berlin)
- Died: 1974-08-08 (Kröv)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: autobiographer; politician; screenwriter
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Military branch: Wehrmacht
- Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 14 September 1942
Literal Title: Voelkischer Beobachter . . . Boldur [sic] von Schirach's speech before the European Youth Congress held in Vienna on 14 September 1942 . . . The Jew a danger to culture.
Defendant: Baldur Schirach, von
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-3048
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 274
Document Book No: Prosecution T: Persecution of the Jews
Citations: IMT (page 1449), IMT (page 10285)
HLSL Item No.: 451103
Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)
Trial Issues
Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT, NMT 11) Deportation or expulsion of civilian populations from occupied territories…
Document Summary
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-3048: Extract from a speech by Schirach, 14 September 1942: attempted justification of his measures for deporting tens of thousands of Jews from Vienna to the east
Blue Series Subject Index
PS-3048: JEWS, PERSECUTION OF -- Ghettos: Amsterdam ghetto, Wimmer oral evidence -- Eastern territories / JEWS, PERSECUTION OF -- Fritzsche [activities -- Schirach [letter to "Der Stuermer" -- letter to "Der Stuermer" / SS -- violations in occupied territories -- Deportation from Vienna [Schirach oral evidence -- Schirach oral evidence / VIENNA -- Jews, persecution of -- Deportation to Government General 1940