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Memorandum on Goering's plan to recruit prisoners who were hunters or smugglers, to fight behind enemy lines
IMT
Authors
Guenther Joel (Dr., prosecutor and adviser, Ministry of Justice)
Guenther Joel
German jurist and lawyer (1899-1986)
- Born: 1899-10-26 (Hanover)
- Died: 1986-05-31
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
- Place of detention: Landsberg Prison (until: 1951-01-01); Nuremberg Court Prison (date: 1947-01-01)
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/25070134
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000007143152
Date: 24 September 1942
Literal Title: From the Reich Marshall's Plans of 24.9.42.
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-638
Document Book No: Prosecution Jodl: additional
Citations: IMT (page 6407), IMT (page 6231)
HLSL Item No.: 452124
Notes:For more on the topic, see document PS 662. PS 638 was entered as US exhibit 788 against Goering.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-638: Notes in Goering's Plan for the formation of terrorist [Illegible] for Russia
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-638: Note by ministerial Councillor Joel, 24 September 1942, on Goring’s verbally expounded plan of the same date for dealing with guerrillas: for this purpose special commandos were to be formed of convicts, (particularly poachers and smugglers) who in the areas assigned to them would be allowed to commit murder, arson, and rape
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-638: Minutes of Cabinet Councillor, Dr. Joel re employment of criminals to create confusion behind the lines in the East.