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Circular message to military and security offices announcing the use of military executions for serious crimes in occupied territories, and the Night and Fog prosecutions for less serious crimes
IMT
Authors
Wilhelm Canaris (admiral; High Command of the Armed Forces)
Wilhelm Canaris
German admiral, head of military intelligence service
- Born: 1877-01-01 1887-01-01 (Aplerbeck)
- Died: 1945-04-09 (Flossenbürg concentration camp)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: intelligence officer; naval officer; resistance fighter; submariner
- Participant in: 20 July plot
- Military rank: admiral
- Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy
- Educated at: Naval Academy at Mürwik; Q1499438
Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht (OKW) (high command and/or general staff)
Date: 02 February 1942
Literal Title: Subject: Prosecution of Crimes against the Reich or the Occupation Power in the occupied Territories
Total Pages: 2
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-833
Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and SD
HLSL Item No.: 451568
Notes:This document was offered as "Miscellaneous" evidence without an exhibit number.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Night and Fog program (IMT, NMT 3)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-833: Mimeographed instructions re Hitler's Order about punishment of civilians in occupied areas, signed by Admiral Canaris