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Extracts from a memorandum on the administration of the Ukraine, on the removal of Jews from public offices, the use of ghettoes, and forced labor

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Alfred Rosenberg (Commissioner for Ideological Training; Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories)

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Alfred Rosenberg

Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)

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  • Born: 1893-01-12 (Tallinn)
  • Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany; Russian Empire; Weimar Republic
  • Occupation: administrator; architect; journalist; opinion journalist
  • Member of political party: German Workers' Party; Nazi Party
  • Member of: Corps Rubonia; Militant League for German Culture; Thule Society
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
  • Military rank: Obergruppenführer

Date: 07 May 1941

Literal Title: Translation of Only Typewritten Material

Defendant: Alfred Rosenberg

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-1028

Citation: IMT (page 1449)

HLSL Item No.: 451037

Notes:The author and date are provided in the Blue Set, vol. 26, p. 567, which has the full text in German. The first paragraph is unedited; the second paragraph is the edited version (after deletions).

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Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

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PS-1028: Instructions for a Reich Commissar in the Ukraine

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PS-1028: Rosenberg’s instruction for a Reich Commissioner in the Ukraine, 7 May 1941

[Memorandum from Rosenberg file, 7 May 1941] [Translation of Only Typewritten Material]
After the customary removal of Jews from all public offices, the Jewish question will have to have a decisive solution, through the institution of Ghettos. Insofar as the Jews have not been driven out by the Ukrainians themselves, the small communities must be lodged in large camps, in order to be kept busy by means of forced labor, in the same way as it has already been the practice in Letzmanorstadt (Lodz).
[Translation of paragraph, excluding all crossed out words.] After the customary removal of Jews from all public offices, the Jewish question will have to undergo a decisive solution through the institution of ghettos or labor battalions. Forced labor is to be introduced.

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