Extract from a speech, on Jews as a danger to European culture, and Schirach's removal of Jews from Vienna to "the ghetto of the East"

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Baldur Schirach, von (Nazi youth leader; governor of Vienna)

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Baldur von Schirach*

German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907-1974)

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  • Born: 1907-05-09 (Berlin)
  • Died: 1974-08-08 (Kröv)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: autobiographer; politician; screenwriter
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Sturmabteilung
  • Military branch: Wehrmacht
  • Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

Voelkischer Beobachter

Date: 14 September 1942

Literal Title: Voelkischer Beobachter . . . Boldur [sic] von Schirach's speech before the European Youth Congress held in Vienna on 14 September 1942 . . . The Jew a danger to culture.

Defendant: Baldur Schirach, von

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-3048

Citation: IMT (page 1449)

HLSL Item No.: 451103

Trial Issues

Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) Deportation or expulsion of civilian populations from occupied territories…

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PS-3048: Extract from a speech by Schirach, 14 September 1942: attempted justification of his measures for deporting tens of thousands of Jews from Vienna to the east

VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER Vienna Edition 15 September 1942
Baldur von Schirach's speech before the European Youth Congress held in Vienna on 14 September 1942
The Jew a danger to culture.
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Every Jew who exerts influence in Europe is a danger to European culture. If anyone reproaches me with having driven from this city, which was once the European metropolis of
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Jewry, tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of Jews into the ghetto of the East, I feel myself compelled to reply: I see in this an action contributing to European culture.