The Reich Marshal of the Greater German Reich
Commissioner for the Four Year Plan
Chairman of the Ministerial Council for National Defense
Berlin, 31 July 1941
To: The Chief of the Security Police and the Security Service; SS-Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich
Complementing the task that was assigned to you on 24 January 1939, which dealt with the carrying out of emigration and evacuation, a solution of the Jewish problem, as advantageous as pos-
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sible, I hereby charge you with making all necessary preparations in regard to organizational and financial matters for bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe.
Wherever other governmental agencies are involved, these are to cooperate with you.
I charge you furthermore to send me, before long, an overall plan concerning the organizational, factual and material measures necessary for the accomplishment of the desired solution of the Jewish question.
Instructions to Heydrich to prepare organizational and financial arrangements "for bringing about a complete solution to the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe"
Authors
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
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)
Date: 31 July 1941
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
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-710
Citations: IMT (page 255), IMT (page 2331), IMT (page 6174)
HLSL Item No.: 450494
Notes:The order cites Heydrich's assignment of 24 January 1939 on the emigration and evacuation of Jews as "a solution of the Jewish problem." Another copy of PS 710 was introduced later as US exhibit 509 in the case against Goering (8 January 1946).
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Administration & organization (all cases)
Document Summary
PS-710: Letter, Goering to Heydrich, regarding Final Solution of the Jewish Problem
PS-710: Order from Goring to Heydrich, July 1941, for the preparation of a general solution of the Jewish question within the German sphere of influence in Europe
PS-710: 31 July 1941 - Goering charges Heydrich with the job of bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe.
Goering letter to Heydrich of 31 July 1941 (referring back to 1939 and authorizing preparation of final solution).
31 July 1941 - GOERING charges HEYDRICE with "complete solution" of Jews problem
Letter from GOERING to HEYDRICH, dated 31 July, charging the latter with the preparations for the complete solution of the Jewish question within the German sphere of influence in Europe.