Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 02 (of 11)

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56213

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Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 02 (of 11)

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en

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This official document details the prosecution of Nazi organizations as criminal entities at the Nuremberg Trials. It argues that these groups, operating outside state law, systematically executed crimes against humanity through a private system of coercion. The text exposes the organized machinery of terror behind the Holocaust and war crimes.

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Volume II of the 'Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression' serves as a comprehensive legal and historical indictment of the criminal nature of Nazi organizations. Presented by the United States Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality, this volume argues that groups such as the SS, Gestapo, SA, and Party Leadership Corps formed a pyramid of power operating entirely outside the law. Justice Jackson's opening argument establishes that these entities transferred coercive authority from the state to private leaders, enabling atrocities including the extermination of five million Jews and the enslavement of millions. The text details how these organizations indoctrinated populations, manipulated mob psychology, and administered privately decreed sanctions without judicial warrants. Specific sections analyze the criminal responsibility of groups like the SS under Alfred Rosenberg's control in occupied Eastern territories. Here, summary courts-martial ordered mass executions and property seizures, operating with impunity. The document contends that condemning only individual defendants while leaving these organizations intact would foster a new 'Nazidom.' It provides extensive evidence of economic exploitation, forced labor programs, and the systematic degradation of occupied populations. The volume highlights Rosenberg's specific role, detailing his authority to legislate for occupied territories and his collaboration with Goering in stripping resources. Evidence includes decrees seizing Jewish property retroactively, reports on the extermination of Jews where gold was lost due to negligence, and letters coordinating forced labor deportations. The text also notes the explicit rejection of the Hague Rules of Land Warfare by Rosenberg's administration. Beyond legal arguments, the volume concludes with biographical data on officials, code names used by the German high command, and glossaries of Nazi terms. This extensive documentation serves as both a permanent legal record and a historical indictment of an integrated force that dominated German society. The prosecution asserts that failing to condemn these organized confederates would absolve them of responsibility and allow the infection of aggressive war to persist into future generations.

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