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Memorandum on Goering's plan to recruit prisoners who were hunters or smugglers, to fight behind enemy lines
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Authors
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
Hermann Göring
German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- 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)
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 expositions of the Reich Marshal of September 24, 1942.
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
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 788
Document Book No: Prosecution Goering: additional
Citations: IMT (page 6231), IMT (page 6407)
HLSL Item No.: 452356
Notes:Joel reported on Goering's proposal.
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.