NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY Deputy of the Fuehrer H/J
Munich, Briennerstrasse 45
Tel: 54901 and 58344 Munich, 28 August 1933.
Mr. Dr. Albrecht Hanshofer
BERLIN
Society of Geography, Wilhelmstr, BERLIN My dear Doctor:
Many thanks for both your letters of the 23 and 24 of this month. I made all necessary arrangements concerning the Standartenfuehrers, immediately.
I would like very much to speak to Haselblatt before his convention starts. Probably I will be at Berlin around September
7. I don't know yet if I shall be able to attend the Convention myself.
Concerning the American, would you please tell him, that in one case it is no longer the question of a "party" in the sense of the "custom" practiced since Washington's time, that we are striving for, but this party is a section of the State itself. It is of utmost interest to me to know, whether any American official representatives ever attended meetings of the fascist party.
I reported the statements of the Polish Chief of Staff.
With hearty greetings your
[Signature] Rudolf Hess.
Registered!
Berlin, August 1933.
EAST PRUSSIA
Dear Mr. Hess:
Today I have only two reports to pass on to you, having received them from a generally well informed source.
Primarily: Assertion of the Polish Chief of staff: "Once the damned civilians thwarted our East Prussian aim with their scruples & hesitation. That will not happen again. Precaution has been taken that these people are sent to a Concentration Camp if they should still dare to obstruct us."
Secondly: A very delicate matter. It is known to yourself, that at some place in your organization, there are people, unable to subordinate their personal initiative for the benefit of the com-
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mon good. I am informed that a personage very highly esteemed abroad, but completely retired at home, H * * * h B
* * * g has to fear for her individual safety. The source of
this insecurity, I was told is S.A. Standartleader Schoeneberg. I don't have to point out to you the repercussions, abroad, which any personal accident would provoke. * * * Could you take
care of internal curbing.
With hearty Greetings
Always Your
Letters on various matters, including the confinement of obstructionists in a concentration camp, an SA officer, and an American's view of the party
Authors
Albrecht Haushofer (professor, author; friend of Rudolf Hess)
Albrecht Haushofer
German geographer and diplomat
- Born: 1903-01-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-04-23 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: author; diplomat; geographer; geopolitician
- Employer: Humboldt University of Berlin
- Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/64031202
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000110282214; https://isni.org/isni/0000000368573107; https://isni.org/isni/0000000368573115
Rudolf Hess (Deputy to the Fuehrer; minister without portfolio)
Rudolf Hess
German Nazi leader (1894-1987)
- Born: 1894-04-26 (Alexandria)
- Died: 1987-08-17 (Spandau Prison) (located in the administrative territorial entity: West Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
- Military rank: lieutenant
Date: August 1933
Literal Title: East Prussian
Defendant: Rudolf Hess
Total Pages: 2
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-1669
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450347
Notes:Haushofer's letter (August 1933) is not signed. In Hess's letter (28 August 1933), Haushofer's name is misspelled as Hanshofer.
Trial Issues
Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
PS-1669: Photostats of correspondence between Dr. Haushofer and Hess referring A.O. to a planned murder of Bruenning
PS-1669: Letter from Dr. Albrecht Haushofer to Hess, 24 August 1933: the Polish chief of staff has made a hostile remark referring to east Prussia; a German with a high reputation abroad feels his personal safety threatened by a certain Sa StandartenfÜhrer. reply from Hess, 28 August 1933: the necessary steps have been taken; the Nsdap is to be looked upon as an integral part of the state