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Extracts from Deutsche Arbeit, including Himmler on the task of Germanizing the East, and Koppe on the need to settle Germans in the eastern territories
IMT
Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Wilhelm Koppe (SS-Obergruppenfuehrer, chief of police, Warthegau)
Wilhelm Koppe
SS and Police Leader (Nazi Germany); German general (1896-1975)
- Born: 1896-06-15 (Hildesheim)
- Died: 1975-07-02 (Bonn)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel (date: 1941-02-01; role: SS-Gruppenführer); Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: German crimes against Poles; The Holocaust
- Significant person: Ernst Damzog (role: superior); Otto Rasch (role: colleague); Wilhelm Rediess (role: colleague)
Date: June 1942
Literal Title: Excerpts from "Deutsche Arbeit" (German Labor)
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: PS-2915
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 306
Document Book No: Prosecution U: Germanization
Citations: IMT (page 1523), IMT (page 1530)
HLSL Item No.: 451138
Trial Issues
Germanization of persons, property, or occupied territories (IMT, NMT 3, 8) Racial selection and discrimination (theory, screening, relocations, kidna…
Document Summary
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-2915: Observation by Himmler, June-july 1942, on Germani-zation of the eastern territories; essay, same date, by ObergruppenfÜhrer Wilhelm Koppe: Germans must settle in the territories conquered in the east and the Polish spirit must be driven out
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-2915: June, July 1942-Excerpts from "Doutsche Arbeit" (German Labor)