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Note on Hitler's reply to a question from Raeder, stating that the "complete occupation" of Greece is required in any settlement
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Erich Raeder (admiral, Navy commander in chief (1935-43))
Erich Raeder
German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II
![[[Storadmiral]] Erich Raeder med [[gallauniform]] for [[Kriegsmarine]] og [[marskalkstav]] [[1940]] <br><small>Foto: Deutsches Bundesarchiv</small>](https://sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/harvard-law-library-nuremberg-authors/4183-erich-raeder.jpeg)
- Born: 1876-04-24 (Wandsbek)
- Died: 1960-11-06 (Kiel)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: historian; naval officer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Nuremberg trials (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Großadmiral
- Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy; Kriegsmarine
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Date: 18 March 1941
Literal Title: B.) Personnel Position.
Defendant: Erich Raeder
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: C-167
Document Book No: Prosecution CC: OKW
HLSL Item No.: 451828
Notes:This is an extract from Raeder's memo on a report to Hitler, 18 March 1941. Another copy of C 167 was entered as UK exhibit 122; this copy was not entered as evidence on the OKW.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SA, SD, OK… Wars of aggression
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
C-167: Top secret note on lecture by supreme commander of Navy to the fuehrer, signed by Raeder. Operations 'Barbarossa' and 'Marita' maintained, Japan urged to take Singapore
Blue Series Subject Index
C-167: GREECE -- -- - Raeder oral evidence -- proposition to Hitler, March 1941, Schulte-Moenting oral evidence