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Memorandum on instructions by Hitler to keep secret the increase in navy tonnage and the construction of U-boats, and Raeder's view on the need to match England's fleet
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: June 1934
Literal Title: Conversation with the Fuehrer in June 1934 on the occasion of the resignation of the Commanding Officer of the "Karlsruhe".
Defendant: Erich Raeder
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: Multilanguage
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-189
Document Book No: Prosecution Raeder: additional
Citations: IMT (page 9947), IMT (page 10030), IMT (page 9741)
HLSL Item No.: 453037
Notes:The memo is given in German first, then English. Another copy of C 189 had been entered as US exhibit 44.
Document Summary
Blue Series Subject Index
C-189: AGGRESSION -- Navy: Construction program in violation of Versailles Treaty, Raeder oral evidence -- Development, against England, Raeder oral evidence / AGGRESSION AGAINST GREECE -- ' Development of the German Fleet, Raeder oral evidence / SCANDINAVIA -- Reconstruction, Raeder-Hitler conversation concerning, oral evidence / NAVY, GERMAN -- ev. -- "Scharnhorst" reconstruction, Hitler-Raeder conversations, Raeder oral evidence -- attitude, 1928 / NAVY, GERMAN -- ev. / NAVY, GERMAN -- -- Development of thie Fleet against Great Britain / GREAT BRITAIN -- England, Jodl cross-examination -- Development of the German Fleet, Raeder oral evidence -- Hitler’s memorandum, his strategy, Jodl oral evidence / GLEIWITZ -- versation, Raeder oral evidence