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Affidavit concerning the responsibility of government officials and others, including legislators, executive officers, police agencies, the judicial system, industrialists, and civic associations, in constructing the Nazi regime and committing crimes
Authors
George S. Messersmith (U.S. consul general in Germany & Austria)
George S. Messersmith
American diplomat (1883-1960)
- Born: 1883-10-03 (Fleetwood)
- Died: 1960-01-29 (Dallas)
- Country of citizenship: United States of America
- Occupation: diplomat
- Position held: United States Assistant Secretary of State; ambassador
- Educated at: Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/10609479
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000028126714
Raymond H. Geist (US consul in Berlin, 1929-39)
Raymond H. Geist
American diplomat (1885-1955)
- Born: 1885-08-19 (Cleveland)
- Died: 1955-02-28
- Country of citizenship: United States of America
- Occupation: diplomat
- Educated at: Case Western Reserve University; Harvard University
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/8000155769101727880000
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2019024169
Date: 29 August 1945
Literal Title: Joint Statement of Ambassador George S. Messersmith . . . And Raymond H. Geist . . . Regarding Guilt as War Criminals of Former Members of (I) the German Government under Adolph Hitler, (II) the German National Socialist Labor Party; and (III) Civil Community of National Socialist Germany.
Defendants: Wilhelm Frick, Walther Funk, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Rudolf Hess, Robert Ley, Constantin Neurath, von, Franz Papen, von, Joachim Ribbentrop, von, Alfred Rosenberg, Hjalmar Schacht, Julius Streicher
Total Pages: 12
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-2386
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450358
Notes:The affidavit also discusses institutions and officials that did not engage in criminal conduct.
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… Wars of aggression Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) People's Court and Special Courts, use of (IMT, NMT 3)