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Instructions to Heydrich to prepare organizational and financial arrangements "for bringing about a complete solution to the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe"
IMT
Authors
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
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: 31 July 1941
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: PS-710
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 509
Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and SD
Citations: IMT (page 1955), IMT (page 2331), IMT (page 6174)
HLSL Item No.: 451565
Notes:The order cites Heydrich's assignment of 24 January 1939 on the emigration and evacuation of Jews as "a solution of the Jewish problem."
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9) Administration & organization (all cases)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-710: Letter, Goering to Heydrich, regarding Final Solution of the Jewish Problem
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-710: Order from Goring to Heydrich, July 1941, for the preparation of a general solution of the Jewish question within the German sphere of influence in Europe
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-710: 31 July 1941 - Goering charges Heydrich with the job of bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe.
Goering letter to Heydrich of 31 July 1941 (referring back to 1939 and authorizing preparation of final solution).
31 July 1941 - GOERING charges HEYDRICE with "complete solution" of Jews problem
Letter from GOERING to HEYDRICH, dated 31 July, charging the latter with the preparations for the complete solution of the Jewish question within the German sphere of influence in Europe.