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Extract from an interrogation, on the time when Funk learned a war against the USSR was imminent (late April 1941)

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Walther Funk (Reich Minister of Economics; Reichsbank; Central Planning Board)

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Walter Funk

German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890-1960)

Born: 1890-08-18 (Yasnaya Polyana)
Died: 1960-05-31 (Düsseldorf)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: banker; economist; journalist; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
Position held: director (of: Bank for International Settlements, Reichsbank); member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Employer: Bank for International Settlements; Reichsbank

Date: 19 October 1945

Literal Title: Testimony of Walter Funk, taken at Nurnberg, Germany, on 19 October 1945, 1035-1205, by Lt. Col. Murray Gurfein AUS, OUSCC.

Defendant: Walther Funk

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-3952

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 876

Document Book No: Prosecution Funk: additional

Citation: IMT (page 9124)

HLSL Item No.: 452856

Trial Issue

Wars of aggression

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PS-3952: Interrogation of Walter Funk at Nurnberg on 19 Oct. 945 by Lt. Col. Murray Gurfein, US OUSOC