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Message to gau (district) leaders on the confiscation of property from various Austrian churches (for hoarding, anti-state activities, and firearms offenses), and the transfer of the properties to the districts
IMT
Authors
Martin Bormann (deputy to Hess; Chief of Party Chancellery, 1941-45)
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
Hans H. Lammers (Dr., Chief of Reich Chancellery)
Hans H. Lammers
German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)
- Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec)
- Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness)
- Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague)
Date: 20 March 1941
Literal Title: Circular letter No. 5g . . . Subject matter: Sequestration (Beschlagnahme) of Church Properties (Properties of monasteries, etc.)
Defendants: Martin Bormann, Baldur Schirach, von
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: R-146
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 678
Document Book No: Prosecution Schirach
Citations: IMT (page 2771), IMT (page 10305), IMT (page 10359)
HLSL Item No.: 453068
Notes:Bormann on confiscation, 20 March; Lammers on distribution of proceeds, 14 March 1941.
Trial Issues
Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Plundering of private property and occupied territories (IMT, NMT 4, 5, 6 …
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
R-146: Circular-letter No. 5g of the Fuehrer's to all Gauleiter with attached copy of a letter of Reichs-Minister and Chief of Reich-Chancellery Dr. Lammers to the Reich Minister for the Interior
Doc Book Tables of Contents
R-146: Letter dated 14 March 1941 from LAMMERS to the Ministry of Interior concerning the draft of an ordinance on confiscation of property of persons inimical to people in state.
Blue Series Subject Index
R-146: ITALY -- German occupation: Church property, confiscation of, Schirach oral evidence / SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS -- .. 1V-68 [Defense plea -- -- Defense plea / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Catholic Church -- Austria -- confiscation of church property / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Austria -- Schirach oral evidence / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Austria -- Confiscation of church property, Schirach oral evidence / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Italy, confiscation of church property, Schirach oral evidence / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Austria -- Buerckel’s responsibility, Schirach oral evidence / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Confiscations: Czechoslovakia -- Property / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- PS; USA-348, D-075, PL-620) -- Confiscations of property -- Bormann’s letter, Schirach oral evidence / CHURCHES, PERSECUTION -- Confiscations: Czechoslovakia -- Schirach oral evidence / AUSTRIA, ANNEXATION AND GERMAN RULE IN AUSTRIA -- _ Buerckel’s responsibility, Schirach oral evidence -- Schirach oral evidence -- Seyss-I