[Vienna City Council Meeting—6 June 1942]
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3. Reichsstatthalter Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach expressed his gratitude to city treasurer Dr. Hanke for the work which had been done, above all for the success achieved during the conferences with the Reich Finance Ministry and the Reich Ministry of the Interior.
He informed the city councillors that as a result of a conference with Reich Minister for the Interior Dr. Frick, discussions will start shortly concerning the simplification of the administration of the cities of Berlin, Vienna, and Hamburg in order to give to those three cities a special position justified in this matter. This will also strengthen the municipal administration of Vienna although it has given rise to many complaints because of its complicated procedure.
A favorable factor, which is of great importance in the transformation of the municipal administrations, is that all offices of the city council are held by men who are closely linked to the party and consequently have their minds open to the right ideas.
Finally he disclosed that already in the latter part of summer or in the fall of this year all Jews would be removed from the city, and that the removal of the Czechs would then get under way, since this is the necessary and right answer to the crime committed against the Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
(Conclusion of the session at 12:33 hours.)
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Speech at a Vienna City Council meeting on the program to align the city government with the party, the plan to remove all Jews from the city, and the subsequent removal of the Czechs in response to the attack on Heydrich
Authors
Baldur Schirach, von (Nazi youth leader; governor of Vienna)
Baldur von Schirach*
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907-1974)
- 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
Date: 06 June 1942
Literal Title: Vienna City Council Meeting
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-3886
Citation: IMT (page 10379)
HLSL Item No.: 453113
Notes:The date is not stated in the document; it is provided in the Blue Set, vol. 24, p. 165.
Trial Issues
Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Deportation or expulsion of civilian populations from occupied territories…
Document Summary
PS-3886: Statement by Schirach at a meeting of the Vienna municipal Council, 6 June 1942: removal of all Jews from Vienna shortly to be completed; removal of all Czechs will follow as answer to the murder of Heydrich