Extract from a statement on the detention of Communist Reichstag members in a concentration camp, and the future treatment of "sub-humans"

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Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)

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Wilhelm Frick

German Nazi official (1877-1946)

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  • Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
  • Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
  • Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
  • Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
  • Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
  • Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

Voelkischer Beobachter

Date: 14 March 1933

Literal Title: Voelkischer Beobachter, 14 March 1933[.] Excerpt from statement by Frick

Defendant: Wilhelm Frick

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-2651

Citation: IMT (page 255)

HLSL Item No.: 450189

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… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER, 14 March 1933 Statement by Frick
When the Reichstag meets the 21st of March, the Communists will be prevented by urgent labor elsewhere from participating in the session. In concentration camps they will be reeducated for productive work. We will know how to render harmless permanently sub-humans who don't want to be reeducated.