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Extract from the minutes of a conversation between Goering and Mussolini, including Goering's description of German anti-partisan tactics and the capacity of party men (such as the SS) to take harsh measures

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Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
Member of: Sturmabteilung
Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

Date: 23 October 1942

Literal Title: Notes on the conversation between Field Marshal Goering and the Duce in the Palazzo Venezia on the 23rd October 1942.

Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering

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: D-729

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 281

Document Book No: Prosecution SS: rebuttal

Citations: IMT (page 6288), IMT (page 15111)

HLSL Item No.: 451484

Notes:D 729 was first entered as UK exhibit 281 in the case against Goering (21 March 1946).

Trial Issues

Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SA, SD, OK… Partisan fighters and commandos, operations against, and treatment of (IMT…

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D-729: PARTISAN WARFARE -- 26 Oct. 1942 -- Methods, Goering’s descriptions / PARTISAN WARFARE -- Brill oral evidence / ATROCITIES -- of -- German methods [Goering oral evidence -- Goering oral evidence