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Minutes of a meeting of Raeder and Hitler, with Hitler's approval of "a general intensification of the War," including the treatment of Greek merchant ships near England as enemy vessels, and attacking without warning all ships in the Bristol Channel
IMT
Authors
Erich Raeder (admiral, Navy commander in chief (1935-43))
Erich Raeder
German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II
![[[Storadmiral]] Erich Raeder med [[gallauniform]] for [[Kriegsmarine]] og [[marskalkstav]] [[1940]] <br><small>Foto: Deutsches Bundesarchiv</small>](https://sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/harvard-law-library-nuremberg-authors/4183-erich-raeder.jpeg)
- Born: 1876-04-24 (Wandsbek)
- Died: 1960-11-06 (Kiel)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: historian; naval officer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Nuremberg trials (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Großadmiral
- Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy; Kriegsmarine
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
Date: 30 December 1939
Literal Title: Meeting Between C-in-C Navy and the Fuehrer.
Defendant: Erich Raeder
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-27
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 225
Document Book No: Prosecution 10 (Raeder)
Citation: IMT (page 2737)
HLSL Item No.: 452939
Notes:For the orders that resulted, see document C 12.
Trial Issues
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
C-27: Top Secret Order of Hitler re: Ruthless naval warfare and minutes about meeting between Hitler and the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy