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Memorandum of a meeting of Hitler, Rosenberg, Lammers, Keitel, and Goering, on the plan to remain permanently in the occupied countries, to resettle Crimea with Germans, "cutting up the giant cake" in Russia, establishing a German military monopoly, future borders, and candidates for posts

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Martin Bormann (Chief, Party Chancellery, deputy to Hess, then Hitler)

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Martin Bormann

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)

Born: 1900-07-17 1900-06-17 (Halberstadt)
Died: 1945-05-02 (Berlin)
Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
Occupation: farmer; military personnel; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Member of: Schutzstaffel
Participant in: Aryanization; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant; since: 1945-11-19)
Military rank: Obergruppenführer; soldier

Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)

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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

Alfred Rosenberg (Commissioner for Ideological Training; Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories)

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Alfred Rosenberg

Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)

Born: 1893-01-12 (Tallinn)
Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany; Russian Empire; Weimar Republic
Occupation: administrator; architect; journalist; opinion journalist
Member of political party: German Workers' Party; Nazi Party
Member of: Corps Rubonia; Militant League for German Culture; Thule Society
Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
Military rank: Obergruppenführer

Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
Member of: Sturmabteilung
Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

Wilhelm Keitel (Field Marshal, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces)

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Wilhelm Keitel

German field marshal

Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Military rank: general field marshal
Military branch: artillery
VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425

Date: 16 July 1941

Literal Title: Memorandum for the record.

Defendants: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg

Total Pages: 7

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: L-221

Document Book No: Prosecution Jodl: additional

HLSL Item No.: 452122

Notes:In the transcript the author is tentatively identified as Bormann, based on his initials. L 221 was entered as US exhibit 317.

Trial Issue

Wars of aggression

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

L-221: Memorandum (by Hermann Chief of Party Chancery) of a meeting called by the Fuhrer at his Headquarters and at which were present also Rosenberg, Lammers, Keitel and Goring in [Illegible] to Hitler and Bormann the meeting considered German policy toward newly occupied areas in Russia and personalities to be put in charge of various areas

Memorandum (by Bormann Chief of Party Chancery) of a meeting called by the Fuhrer at his headquarters and at which were present also Rosenberg, Lammers, Keitel and Goring in addition to Hitler and Bormann the meeting considered German policy toward newly occupied areas in Russia and personalities to be put in charge of various areas

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L-221: Summary of top-secret conference between Hitler, Rosenberg, LAMMERS, Keitel and Goering on the 16 July 1941: