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[ ... p. 488 ] is willing to submit additional statutes. MR. WOOLEYHAN: One further remark, NG-715, after this document is offered [ ... p. 489 ] evidence, as Exhibit No. 112, Document NG-715, which is Document Book II in its entirety. THE PRESIDENT: It will be received [ ... p. 503 ] which is Document NG-715, also known as Document Book 2. THE PRESIDENT: I do not think there has been any ruling on that [ ... ]

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Evidence Code: NG-715

17 March 1947
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[ ... p. 10696 ] class="speaker">DR. SEIDL: Mr. President, I object to the admission of the document which is NG 715. This is nothing but an index of a document [ ... p. 10695 ] document, Your Honors, is document NG-715 which is the entire document book No. 2 which was used in the Justice case, which are extracts from the Justice [ ... p. 10697 ] . MR HARDY: This document is NG 715, offered as Prosecution Exhibit 563. The next two documents are transcripts of [ ... ]

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Evidence Code: NG-715

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 562

03 July 1947
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Articles 102-105 of the Weimar Constitution on the independence of judges, and selected Reich decrees on criminal law from the Reichgesetzblatt, 1933-1945, with other documents on criminal law

The Constitution of the German Reich

HLSL Item No.: 6046

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NG-715

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 112

Weimar Constitution

Weimar Constitution

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Code of Criminal Procedure, German

Code of Criminal Procedure, German

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Paul L. H. Hindenburg, von

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Paul L. H. von Hindenburg

Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany (1847–1934)

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  • Born: 1847-10-02 (Poznań) (country: Kingdom of Prussia; statement is subject of: 6 Podgórna Street in Poznań)
  • Died: 1934-08-02 (Ogrodzieniec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship)
  • Country of citizenship: German Empire; German Reich
  • Occupation: military personnel; politician; soldier
  • Member of: Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg und Dresden in Aachen
  • Military rank: general field marshal
  • Military branch: Prussian Army
  • Position held: President of Germany (end cause: death in office; period: 1925-05-12 through 1934-08-02; replaced by: Adolf Hitler)

Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)

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  • 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

Franz Guertner

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Franz Guertner

Government minister of Germany (1881-1941)

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  • Born: 1881-08-26 (Regensburg)
  • Died: 1941-01-29 (Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: German Reich
  • Occupation: jurist; politician
  • Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party; Q15787248
  • Participant in: Aktion T4
  • Position held: Baviarian Minister of Justice (member of cabinet: Q1719960, Q1719961, ..., Q1720104; period: 1922-08-04 through 1932-06-01; replaced by: Heinrich Spangenberger); Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1932-06-01 through 1941-01-29; replaced by: Franz Schlegelberger; replaces: Curt Joël)
  • Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Constantin Neurath, von

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Constantin von Neurath

German general and Nazi war criminal (1873-1956)

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  • Born: 1873-02-02 (Kleinglattbach)
  • Died: 1956-08-14 (Enzweihingen)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel
  • Military rank: Obergruppenführer
  • Position held: German Foreign Minister (period: 1932-06-01 through 1938-02-04; replaced by: Joachim von Ribbentrop; replaces: Heinrich Brüning); ambassador

Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk

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Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official (1887-1977)

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  • Born: 1887-08-22 (Rathmannsdorf)
  • Died: 1977-04-03 1977-03-04 (Essen)
  • Country of citizenship: German Empire; Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
  • Occupation: diplomat; economist; jurist; military personnel
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1937-01-30)
  • Participant in: Aryanization; Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-02-06; role: affiant)
  • Significant person: Karl Brandt (role: acquaintance)
  • Position held: Chancellor of Germany (period: 1945-05-01 through 1945-05-23; replaced by: Konrad Adenauer; replaces: Joseph Goebbels); Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (period: 1945-05-02 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Arthur Seyss-Inquart); German Foreign Minister (period: 1945-05-02 through 1945-05-23; replaced by: Georg Dertinger; replaces: Arthur Seyss-Inquart); Leading Minister (period: 1945-05-01 through 1945-05-23)

Franz Papen, von

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Franz von Papen

German general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany (1879–1969)

Franz von Papen 1933. aastal
  • Born: 1879-10-29 (Werl)
  • Died: 1969-05-02 (Sasbach)
  • Country of citizenship: German Reich; Germany
  • Occupation: diplomat; military personnel; politician
  • Member of political party: Centre Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
  • Member of: Union-Klub
  • Participant in: Hostages Trial (date: 1947-10-03; role: affiant)
  • Significant person: Wilhelm List (role: acquaintance)

Werner Blomberg, von

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Werner von Blomberg

German field marshal (1878-1946)

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  • Born: 1878-09-02 (Stargard)
  • Died: 1946-03-14 (Nuremberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (series ordinal: 3.805.226; since: 1937-01-30)
  • Military rank: general field marshal
  • Military branch: German Army
  • Position held: minister of war

Otto Georg Thierack

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Otto Georg Thierack

German politician (1889-1946)

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  • Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen)
  • Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: judge; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
  • Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg
  • Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal)
  • Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)

Hermann Goering

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

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  • 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)

Hans Posse

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Hans Posse

German politician and jurist (1886-1965)

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  • Born: 1886-08-13 (Berlin)
  • Died: 1965-08-18
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: jurist; politician
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/67412906
  • ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000029644126
  • WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89652187
  • Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89652187

Wilhelm Keitel

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Wilhelm Keitel

German field marshal

el Mariscal Keitel
  • Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
  • Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Military rank: general field marshal
  • Military branch: artillery
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425

Rudolf Hess

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Rudolf Hess

German Nazi leader (1894-1987)

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  • Born: 1894-04-26 (Alexandria)
  • Died: 1987-08-17 (Spandau Prison) (located in the administrative territorial entity: West Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: aircraft pilot; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Thule Society
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
  • Military rank: lieutenant

Wilhelm Frick

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Wilhelm Frick

German Nazi official (1877-1946)

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  • Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
  • Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
  • Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
  • Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
  • Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
  • Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

Hans H. Lammers

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Hans H. Lammers

German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)

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  • 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)

Walther Funk

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Walter Funk

German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890-1960)

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  • Born: 1890-08-18 (Yasnaya Polyana)
  • Died: 1960-05-31 (Düsseldorf)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: banker; economist; journalist; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
  • Position held: director (of: Bank for International Settlements, Reichsbank); member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
  • Employer: Bank for International Settlements; Reichsbank

Roland Freisler

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Roland Freisler

German lawyer and judge (1893-1945)

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  • Born: 1893-10-30 (Celle)
  • Died: 1945-02-03 (Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: judge; lawyer; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schwarzburgbund
  • Position held: Judge of the People's Court (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-02-03; replaced by: Harry Haffner; replaces: Otto Georg Thierack); Member of Landtag of Prussia; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
  • Educated at: University of Jena

Franz Schlegelberger

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Franz Schlegelberger

German judge and politician (1876-1970)

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  • Born: 1876-10-23 (Königsberg)
  • Died: 1970-12-14 (Flensburg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: judge; jurist; politician; university teacher
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
  • Significant person: Reinhold Richter (role: acquaintance)
  • Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1941-01-30 through 1942-08-19; replaced by: Otto Georg Thierack; replaces: Franz Gürtner)

Martin Bormann

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Martin Bormann

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)

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  • 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

Wilhelm Stuckart

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Wilhelm Stuckart

German judge and politician (1902-1953)

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  • Born: 1902-11-16 (Wiesbaden)
  • Died: 1953-11-15 (Hanover)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
  • Member of political party: All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights; Nazi Party (since: 1922-12-01); Socialist Reich Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-05-19; role: affiant); Wannsee Conference
  • Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: acquaintance; since: 1943-08-01)

Hans Pfundtner

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Hans Pfundtner

German politician, civil law notary and lawyer (1881-1945)

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  • Born: 1881-07-15 (Gusev)
  • Died: 1945-04-25 (Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: lawyer; notary; politician
  • Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party
  • Member of: Corps Masovia Königsberg
  • Military rank: captain
  • Educated at: University of Königsberg

Johannes Krohn

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Johannes Krohn

German politician and jurist (1884-1974)

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  • Born: 1884-07-04 (Szczecin)
  • Died: 1974-07-11 (Bad Neuenahr)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: jurist; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1938-01-30)
  • Member of: Leipzig Fraternity Germania
  • Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-05-23; role: affiant)
  • Employer: Reichsarbeitsministerium (period: 1933-01-01 through 1939-01-01)

11 August 1919
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Laws and decrees of German criminal law, presented in the Justice Case (NMT Case 3, prosecution documents)

Contents--Document Book II

HLSL Item No.: 220

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NG-715

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 563

Reich Legal Gazette

Reich Legal Gazette

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Weimar Constitution

Weimar Constitution

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Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)

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  • 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

Franz Guertner

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Franz Guertner

Government minister of Germany (1881-1941)

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  • Born: 1881-08-26 (Regensburg)
  • Died: 1941-01-29 (Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: German Reich
  • Occupation: jurist; politician
  • Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party; Q15787248
  • Participant in: Aktion T4
  • Position held: Baviarian Minister of Justice (member of cabinet: Q1719960, Q1719961, ..., Q1720104; period: 1922-08-04 through 1932-06-01; replaced by: Heinrich Spangenberger); Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1932-06-01 through 1941-01-29; replaced by: Franz Schlegelberger; replaces: Curt Joël)
  • Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Otto Georg Thierack

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Otto Georg Thierack

German politician (1889-1946)

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  • Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen)
  • Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: judge; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
  • Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg
  • Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal)
  • Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)

Hermann Goering

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

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  • 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)

Wilhelm Keitel

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Wilhelm Keitel

German field marshal

el Mariscal Keitel
  • Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
  • Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Military rank: general field marshal
  • Military branch: artillery
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425

Hans H. Lammers

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Hans H. Lammers

German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)

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  • 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)

Wilhelm Frick

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Wilhelm Frick

German Nazi official (1877-1946)

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  • Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
  • Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
  • Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
  • Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
  • Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
  • Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

Franz Schlegelberger

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Franz Schlegelberger

German judge and politician (1876-1970)

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  • Born: 1876-10-23 (Königsberg)
  • Died: 1970-12-14 (Flensburg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: judge; jurist; politician; university teacher
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
  • Significant person: Reinhold Richter (role: acquaintance)
  • Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1941-01-30 through 1942-08-19; replaced by: Otto Georg Thierack; replaces: Franz Gürtner)

Martin Bormann

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Martin Bormann

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)

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  • 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

11 August 1919
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