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Letter to Alfred Rosenberg on the confiscation of the property of "ideological opponents" (including churches and monasteries, noting objections by Heydrich and Hitler's instructions about art works in the Balkans and libraries

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Martin Bormann (Chief, Party Chancellery, deputy to Hess, then Hitler)

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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

Date: 19 April 1941

Defendants: Martin Bormann, Alfred Rosenberg

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: PS-72

Document Book No: Prosecution H

Citations: IMT (page 255), IMT (page 6122)

HLSL Item No.: 450426

Notes:Another copy of PS 72 was entered as US exhibit 357.

Trial Issues

Art and cultural treasures, plundering of (Rosenberg; Linz project) (IMT) 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…

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PS-72: Letter from Bormann to Rosenberg, 19 April 1941, concerning the treatment of property belonging to opponents of national socialist ideology

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