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Affidavit concerning Funk's work as senior manager of the Ministry of Propaganda, including his control over all German media and daily meetings with Hitler
IMT
Authors
Max Amann (publisher; president of Reich Press Chamber)
Max Amann
German Nazi official and publisher (1891-1957)
- Born: 1891-11-24 (Munich)
- Died: 1957-03-31 1957-03-30 (Munich)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: journalist; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung; Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Date: 19 December 1945
Defendant: Walther Funk
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-3501
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 657
Document Book No: Prosecution HH (Funk)
Citations: IMT (page 2578), IMT (page 9011)
HLSL Item No.: 452831
Notes:Amann clarified and revised some of his statements in a later affidavit (17 April 1946), Funk exhibit 14.
Trial Issues
Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT, NMT 11) Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4, 11)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-3501: Signed and sworn affidavit of Amann re Funk's position in the Propaganda Ministry
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-3501: Affidavit by Max Amann, 19 December 1945, Funk’s leading role in the Ministry of propaganda
Blue Series Subject Index
PS-3501: NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY -- of its influence abroad -- Funk [control over press, thea‘ter, radio, and music, Amann oral evidence -- control over press, thea‘ter, radio, and music, Amann oral evidence