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Instructions to the German legation in Prague to inform the Czech government that Germany will arrest as many Czechs, including Czech-speaking Jews, as Sudeten Germans have been arrested in Czechoslovakia, and will execute them if Sudeten Germans are executed
IMT
Authors
Ernst Woermann (Dr., Foreign Office, Berlin (1938-39))
Ernst Woermann
German politician and jurist (1888-1979)
- Born: 1888-03-30 (Dresden)
- Died: 1979-07-05 (Heidelberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; jurist; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: ambassador
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/3543385
Date: 17 September 1938
Literal Title: Deciphered Message[.] Dispatched from the Foreign Office: 17 Sept. 15 o'clock 20 min. Received by the Legation 17 Sept Secret Cipher
Defendant: Joachim Ribbentrop, von
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-2854
Document Book No: Prosecution 6
Citation: IMT (page 2341)
HLSL Item No.: 451908
Notes:Another copy of PS 2854 had been entered as US exhibit 99; this copy was used with the same exhibit number. Another copy in Ribbentrop document book 3 (item 454011) contains three more paragraphs of text.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-2854: Decoding of wire from Reich Foreign Office to Embassy re decision of Reich Cabinet on reprisals for Czech arrest of Sudeten Germans
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-2854: Code telegram from the German foreign office to the legation in prague, 17 September 1938: arrest of Czechs in the Reich as retaliation for arrest of Sudeten-ger-mans in Czechoslovakia; threat to shoot Czechs if death sentences against Sudeten-germans are carried out