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Memorandum on the Foreign Office draft policy on the treatment of captured Allied airmen, and Goering's agreement
IMT
Authors
Walter Warlimont (general; deputy chief, operations staff of the armed forces)
Walter Warlimont
German general (1894-1976)
- Born: 1894-10-03 (Osnabrück)
- Died: 1976-10-09 (Kreuth)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: military officer (military rank: general)
- Member of: High Command of the Armed Forces (since: 1941-01-01)
- Participant in: Hostages Trial (date: 1947-07-04; role: affiant); Judges' Trial
- Significant person: Hermann Foertsch (role: colleague, friend); Walter Kuntze
- Military rank: General of the Artillery
Date: 30 June 1944
Literal Title: Subject: Treatment of enemy terror-aviators
Defendants: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, 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-740
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 153
Document Book No: Prosecution 6
Citation: IMT (page 2373)
HLSL Item No.: 451968
Notes:For Ritter's letter to the military high command, which is cited, see document PS 728.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-740: Warlimont's Top Secret Note on plans for the killing of certain allied fliers
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-740: Top-secret note by Warlimont, 30 June 1944, on von Rib-bentrop’s and Goring’s attitude toward the proposed procedure against enemy fliers
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-740: Memorandum by Warlimont (handwritten signature) to Keitel, dated 30 June 1944 and initialed by Keitel.
before the letter (the approved draft of the fliers order) is forwarded to Keitel.
Blue Series Subject Index
PS-740: LYNCHING OF ALLIED AIRMEN -- Goering-Keitel, Goering oral evidence Ribbentrop’s ap / MALORITY -- Treatment of American "terror fliers": Hitler, Oshima, Ribbentrop conference, May 1944 -- Warlimont’s report on conference, June 1944 -- Ribbentrop’s approval