Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11)

About this book

Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 04 (of 11) is a collection of documentary evidence and legal materials written in the mid-20th century. Compiled for the International Military Tribunal, it presents translated Nazi laws, decrees, internal memoranda, and speeches that trace the regime’s persecution, militarization, and expansion. Expect primary sources on anti-Jewish policy, exceptional police powers, economic exploitation, youth indoctrination, and satellite-state control.

The opening of this volume assembles translated Nazi laws and documents that systematize persecution and war aims: forced “Aryanization” and control of Jewish property, a collective fine, limits on public presence, the Reich Citizenship Law and its first regulation defining “Jew” and stripping rights, tenancy rules enabling eviction and compulsory billeting, and a 1943 measure sending Jewish offenses to police justice and seizing Jewish estates. It includes a secret RSHA roundup list of Weimar-era figures, decrees granting the SS extraordinary authority in annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, and the “protection” treaty that bound Slovakia to German military installations and foreign-policy alignment. Economic records show plans to immobilize Belgian and Dutch capital, a memorandum urging conquest over autarky to secure resources, and a 1942 Speer statement reallocating labor and POWs to armaments. Extensive excerpts from Baldur von Schirach’s The Hitler Youth outline the movement’s ideology, absorption of rival youth groups, pressure on confessional youth, strict discipline, and foreign youth work, followed by a 1939 order formalizing the HJ’s state authority and its cadre’s NSDAP affiliation. The section closes with a brief biographical entry on Karl Dönitz from a 1944 naval diary.