The Reichmarshal of the Greater German Reich.
V.P. 18727/6/3 Distribution:
Berlin, October 26, 1942
OKW W.F.St. W'8 N0' 3' Leipziger Street
OKW Wi Amt,
OKH Gen.St.d.H.
OKW Gen. Qu.
Chef d. Gen.St.d. Luftw.
Reichsfuehrer SS,
Ostmin.
Reichsernaehrungsmin.
Chef wi Srab Ost Gen. Bev. f. d. Arb. Eins.,
Org. Todt,
Reischsarbeitsdienst,
Chefgr. Ernaehrung.
Simultaneously with the intensified combating of gang activities, [Bandentaetigkeit] ordered by the Fuehrer, and with the cleaning up of the Hinterland in particular that behind the Army Group Middle, I request that the following aspects are taken into consideration and that the deductions drawn therefrom are put into practice.
262
1742-PS
1. During combating of the underground and the combing through of the areas contaminated by them, all the available cattle stock there, must simultaneously be driven off to safe areas. Food, supplies are to be evacuated and protected similarly, so that they will no more be accessible to the bands.
2. All masculine and feminine labour which can be considered for some kind of employment, must be seized by force and transported to the plenipotentiary Chief of the Labour Exchange who will employ them in the safe areas of the hinterland or at home. The accommodation of the children in the hinterland camps is to be regulated separately.
3. In the execution of the directives outlined under pars 1 and 2, no regard is to be paid to whether the agricultural or any other production in these areas will suffer or succumb owing to these measures. Since up to now these band infested areas have nothing to show in the way of production anyway, but were directly or indirectly useful to the bands.
I request all authorities concerned, in as far as it is necessary, in mutual agreement, to effect the requisites within their spheres of competence, in order to act according to the directives outlined by me.
About the detailed delimitation of areas an Agreement must be reached between the various head groups of agriculture of the Economy Offices [Wirtschaftsdienststellen].
(signed) Goering
attested: Schwimpe
Registrar of the Ministry.
Instructions to military, police, and civil offices, that in partisan-contested areas livestock and crops should be removed and secured, and male and female workers should be transported to safe areas or to Germany for work
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: 26 October 1942
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-1742
Citations: IMT (page 6236), IMT (page 6407)
HLSL Item No.: 452364
Document Summary
PS-1742: Order by Goering re Seizure of Property and Persons in the Fight Against Partisans
PS-1742: Goring’s directives, 26 October 1942, to the Okw, general staffs, Himmler, Rosenberg, and other authorities implementing the intensified campaign against partisan activity ordered by Hitler: ruthless removal of all cattle and food supplies from the area in question; forced seizure of all men and women capable of work for German labor deployment