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Document Image IMT Image Proposal to authorize U-boats to sink unlighted ships at night without warning in French or British-area waters, noting Raeder's order for this in the English Channel Extract from document entitled: Demands of F.O. U-boats and military possibilities of carrying them out. HLSL Item No.: 452880 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: C-191 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 193	Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration Additional details not yet available.	22 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Article accusing Churchill of sinking the ship "Athenia" in an attempt to put the blame on Germany Vo[e]lkischer Beobachter . . . Churchill sank the "Athenia". HLSL Item No.: 452909 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: PS-3260 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 218	Voelkischer Beobachter Voelkischer Beobachter Additional details not yet available.	23 October 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Telegram to the Foreign Office on Danish concerns about the sinking of Swedish and Finnish ships, and the repercussions if U-boats attack Danish ships trading with Britain Telegram HLSL Item No.: 452920 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: D-846 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 452	Renthe-Fink, von See more details Cécil von Renthe-Fink German diplomat Born: 1885-01-01 (Wrocław) Died: 1964-01-01 (Munich) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: diplomat; jurist Member of political party: German People's Party; Nazi Party Position held: ambassador VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/33076240 ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000071469026	26 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Memorandum (in the Foreign Office) on the Navy's position that U-boats should be free to operate against enemy and neutral ships in the British zone without restriction or warning, although this would violate international law, and comments on the risks to foreign relations Translation of D/851. HLSL Item No.: 452922 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: D-851 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 451	Foreign Office/Ministry of Foreign Affairs Foreign Office/Ministry of Foreign Affairs Additional details not yet available. Albrecht Albrecht Additional details not yet available.	03 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Orders (from Hitler) authorizing the treatment of Greek merchant ships near England as enemy vessels, and the attacking without warning of all ships in the Bristol Channel, with a marginal note that attacks should be made without witnesses for the sake of deniability Re: Conduct of U-boat warfare on Merchant shipping against England. HLSL Item No.: 452937 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: C-12 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 226	Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht Additional details not yet available. Alfred Jodl See more details Alfred Jodl German general and convicted war criminal (1890-1946) Born: 1890-05-10 (Würzburg) Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) Country of citizenship: German Reich; Kingdom of Bavaria; Weimar Republic Occupation: military personnel; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant) Military rank: Generaloberst Military branch: artillery	30 December 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Minutes of a meeting of Raeder and Hitler, with Hitler's approval of "a general intensification of the War," including the treatment of Greek merchant ships near England as enemy vessels, and attacking without warning all ships in the Bristol Channel Meeting Between C-in-C Navy and the Fuehrer. HLSL Item No.: 452939 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: C-27 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 225	Erich Raeder See more details Erich Raeder German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II Born: 1876-04-24 (Wandsbek) Died: 1960-11-06 (Kiel) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: historian; naval officer Member of political party: Nazi Party Participant in: Nuremberg trials (role: defendant) Military rank: Großadmiral Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy; Kriegsmarine Adolf Hitler See more details Adolf Hitler Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945) Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus) Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler) Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01) Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556) Member of: Nazi Party Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin	30 December 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Extract from a report to Hitler on naval strategy for the war, including an economic blockade of Britain, the need to use measures not authorized by existing international law, and an uncompromising response to protests from neutral countries HLSL Item No.: 452965 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Codes: C-157, UK-65 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 224	Erich Raeder See more details Erich Raeder German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II Born: 1876-04-24 (Wandsbek) Died: 1960-11-06 (Kiel) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: historian; naval officer Member of political party: Nazi Party Participant in: Nuremberg trials (role: defendant) Military rank: Großadmiral Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy; Kriegsmarine	19 October 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Extract from Doenitz's war diary, identifying two ships sunk by U-boat 30 (omitting the sinking of the "Athenia") Translation of Extract from the War Diary of the Chief of U Boats HLSL Item No.: 452973 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: D-659 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 221	Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration Additional details not yet available. Karl Doenitz See more details Karl Doenitz German admiral, supreme commander of the Navy, head of state and convicted war criminal (1891-1980) Born: 1891-09-16 (Grünau) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Kingdom of Prussia) Died: 1980-12-22 1980-12-24 (Aumühle) (country: West Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Schleswig-Holstein) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: autobiographer; military officer; politician; soldier (period: 1910-01-01 through 1918-01-01, 1920-01-01 through 1945-01-01) Member of political party: Nazi Party Participant in: Nuremberg trials (charge: war crime, war of aggression; defender: Otto Kranzbühler; role: defendant) Military rank: Admiral (period: 1942-03-14 through 1943-01-30); Commodore (period: 1939-01-28 through 1939-10-01); Fregattenkapitän (period: 1933-10-01 through 1935-10-01); Fähnrich zur See (period: 1911-04-15 through 1913-09-27) Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy (since: 1910-04-01); Kriegsmarine (since: 1935-06-01)	27 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Extract from Lemp's war diary, 22 August to 10 September 1939 (omitting the sinking of the "Athenia") War Diary of the the Commanding Officer of U-boat "U-30" HLSL Item No.: 452974 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: D-662 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 222	Lemp Lemp Additional details not yet available.	22 August 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Proposal to authorize U-boats to sink unlighted ships at night without warning in French or British-area waters, noting Raeder's order for this in the English Channel Extract from document entitled: Demands of F.O. U-boats and military possibilities of carrying them out. HLSL Item No.: 453012 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: C-191 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 193	Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration Additional details not yet available.	22 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Extracts from meetings with Hitler on the intensification of naval warfare, authorizing the sinking of British and French merchant ships without warning, and passenger ships in convoys, passenger ships carrying troops or supplies, and neutral ships carrying contraband, and the navy's request for authorization to take further steps as needed "Sink at Sight Policy" HLSL Item No.: 453033 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: C-100 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 463	Erich Raeder See more details Erich Raeder German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II Born: 1876-04-24 (Wandsbek) Died: 1960-11-06 (Kiel) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: historian; naval officer Member of political party: Nazi Party Participant in: Nuremberg trials (role: defendant) Military rank: Großadmiral Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy; Kriegsmarine Adolf Hitler See more details Adolf Hitler Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945) Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus) Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler) Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01) Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556) Member of: Nazi Party Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin Fricke Fricke Additional details not yet available.	29 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Memorandum on Raeder's statement to the US naval attache, asserting that the Athenia had not been sunk by a German submarine and that German commanders were adhering to the laws regarding merchant ships, and the US attache's report to Washington Extract from Skl. File "Fall Athenia" . . . Decree HLSL Item No.: 453039 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: D-804 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 477	Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration Additional details not yet available. Neubauer Neubauer Additional details not yet available. Erich Raeder See more details Erich Raeder German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II Born: 1876-04-24 (Wandsbek) Died: 1960-11-06 (Kiel) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: historian; naval officer Member of political party: Nazi Party Participant in: Nuremberg trials (role: defendant) Military rank: Großadmiral Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy; Kriegsmarine	16 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Record of meeting of Foreign Office, High Command, and economics officials on naval warfare, including instructions to be given to neutral powers on actions necessary to avoid the sinking of their ships, and the sinking without warning of enemy merchant ships near Britain Memorandum on conference with Secretary of State von Weizsaecker on the 25th September, p.m. on question of naval warfare. HLSL Item No.: 453047 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: D-852 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 469	Foreign Office/Ministry of Foreign Affairs Foreign Office/Ministry of Foreign Affairs Additional details not yet available. Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht Additional details not yet available. Ernst Weizsaecker, von See more details Ernst von Weizsaecker German diplomat in the Nazi regime (1882-1951) Born: 1882-01-01 1882-05-25 (Stuttgart) Died: 1951-08-04 (Lindau) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: diplomat; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party Member of: Schutzstaffel Military rank: corvette captain Military branch: Imperial German Navy	25 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Memorandum of a meeting with Admiral Schniewind, on the circumstances in which neutral merchant ships can be sunk without warning, the sinking of British and French merchant ships, the policy not to sink neutral ships in the Baltic Sea and eastern North Sea, and the belief that Hitler "will probably order ruthless U-Boat warfare" HLSL Item No.: 453048 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: D-853 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 470	Ernst Woermann See more details Ernst Woermann German politician and jurist (1888-1979) Born: 1888-03-30 (Dresden) Died: 1979-07-05 (Heidelberg) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: diplomat; jurist; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party Member of: Schutzstaffel Position held: ambassador VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/3543385	27 September 1939	Document Image
Document Image IMT Image Message to Ribbentrop suggesting that the OKW be asked to report on the navy's proposal for "unrestricted U-boat warfare against England," including the timing, the zones involved, and possible exceptions for passenger ships and some neutral ships HLSL Item No.: 453051 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: D-857 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 471	Ernst Weizsaecker, von See more details Ernst von Weizsaecker German diplomat in the Nazi regime (1882-1951) Born: 1882-01-01 1882-05-25 (Stuttgart) Died: 1951-08-04 (Lindau) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: diplomat; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party Member of: Schutzstaffel Military rank: corvette captain Military branch: Imperial German Navy	14 October 1939	Document Image

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