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Extracts from Fuehrer conference minutes, on Hitler's suggestion to renounce the Geneva Convention, and Doenitz's disagreement
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Authors
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
Karl Doenitz (admiral; submarine commander (1939-43; naval commander (1943-45))
Karl Doenitz
German admiral, supreme commander of the Navy, head of state and convicted war criminal (1891-1980)
- Born: 1891-09-16 (Grünau) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Kingdom of Prussia)
- Died: 1980-12-22 1980-12-24 (Aumühle) (country: West Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Schleswig-Holstein)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: autobiographer; military officer; politician; soldier (period: 1910-01-01 through 1918-01-01, 1920-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Nuremberg trials (charge: war crime, war of aggression; defender: Otto Kranzbühler; role: defendant)
- Military rank: Admiral (period: 1942-03-14 through 1943-01-30); Commodore (period: 1939-01-28 through 1939-10-01); Fregattenkapitän (period: 1933-10-01 through 1935-10-01); Fähnrich zur See (period: 1911-04-15 through 1913-09-27)
- Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy (since: 1910-04-01); Kriegsmarine (since: 1935-06-01)
Date: 19 February 1945
Literal Title: Extracts from minutes of Hitler conference on 19.2.45.
Defendants: Karl Doenitz, Alfred Jodl
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-158
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 209
Document Book No: Prosecution Jodl: additional
Citations: IMT (page 9553), IMT (page 9474), IMT (page 9508), IMT (page 9512), IMT (page 11201)
HLSL Item No.: 452116
Notes:For Jodl's report on Hitler's proposal, see document D 606. Doenitz's recommendation was to carry out "necessary" measures without formally renouncing the convention. This document was entered as UK exhibit 209 in the case against Doenitz. For a photostat of the German original, see document 452930.
Trial Issues
IMT count 3: war crimes (IMT) Wars of aggression Naval warfare, crimes during, and background of (IMT)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
C-158: Top secret. Minutes on conference re current military situation
Blue Series Subject Index
C-158: NAVAL WARFARE, -- Geneva Convention, Doenitz’ and Hitler’s considerations re renunciation of / GENEVA CONVENTION -- Renunciation as a measure of reprisal, Doenitz oral evidence -- Conference concerning, Doenitz - Goering - Keitel - HitlerJodl