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Secret protocol of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty of 1939, concerning the division of Lithuanian and Polish territories
NMT 4
Authors
Joachim Ribbentrop, von (Minister for Foreign Affairs (1938-45))
Joachim von Ribbentrop
German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)
- Born: 1893-04-30 (Wesel)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Travellers Club
- Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Oberleutnant
V. M. Molotov (Foreign Minister, U.S.S.R.)
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
Soviet politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1890–1986)
- Born: 1890-03-09 (Sovetsk)
- Died: 1986-11-08 (Moscow)
- Country of citizenship: Russian Empire; Soviet Union
- Occupation: diplomat; politician; statesperson
- Member of political party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Member of: Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Participant in: 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party
- Position held: First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (period: 1942-08-16 through 1957-06-29; replaced by: Nikolai Bulganin; replaces: Nikolai Voznesensky); General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (period: 1921-03-16 through 1922-04-03; replaced by: Joseph Stalin; replaces: Nikolay Krestinsky); Ministry of Foreign Affairs of USSR (period: 1953-03-05 through 1956-06-01; replaced by: Dmitri Shepilov; replaces: Andrey Vyshinsky); Premier of the Soviet Union (period: 1930-12-19 through 1941-05-06; replaced by: Joseph Stalin; replaces: Alexei Rykov)
Date: 28 September 1939
Literal Title: German-Soviet Border-and Friendship Treaty. Secret Supplementary Protocol.
Defendant: Oswald Pohl
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Exhibit Code: Pohl 20E
Document Book No: Pohl 2
Defense Document No.: Pohl 25
Citation: NMT 4 (page 7479)
HLSL Item No.: 4928
Notes:The date of the document is mis-typed as 23 August 1939; the correct date is 28 September 1939. For the text of the border and friendship treaty, see database item 4927. This is part of a series of documents on the legal status of the German regime in Poland.