AFFIDAVIT
Statement . of
WILHELM FRICK
I, Wilhelm Frick, being first duly sworn on oath state:
That:
1. I was responsible for the drafting of the law of 16 March 1935 reintroducing military conscription in the Reich. ~
But this was only a natural development pronounced in earlier time by Hitler, since leaving the League of Nations and the Disarmament Conferences.
2. If you give any guilt for all these developments there can be two things. Either you can say I helped Hitler to come into power. This seemed to me at the time a very good thing to happen because he actually was the strongest political person and he had proved his strength: After taking over power he eliminated unemployment. The later development however could not be recognized in 1933. And the second thing you can charge me with is this: After I have been with Hitler and seen what is going on regarding the elimination of my influence I did not open and sharp protest against the new "Kurs" introduced by Himmler and go out of the cabinet, also against the will of Hitler, whom I often have offered my demission. But also such a demission would not have changed direction of the policy. Only a persecution of my person would have been the consequence.
That the facts stated above are true; that this declaration is made by me voluntarily and without compulsion; that after reading over the statement I have signed and executed the same at Numberg/Germany this day of November 1945.
[signed] Dr. Wilhelm Frick WILHELM FRICK
Subscribed and sworn to before me at Nurnberg/Germany this 5th day of January 1946.
[signed] Thomas S. Hinkel THOMAS S. HINKEL Lt. Col., I.G.D.
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Affidavit stating that Frick drafted the law for military conscription (1935), assisted in Hitler's rise to power, and did not act against the new program ("kurs") of Himmler and others after his influence declined
Authors
Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)
Wilhelm Frick
German Nazi official (1877-1946)
- 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
Date: November 1945
Literal Title: Affidavit[.] Statement of Wilhelm 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-3043
HLSL Item No.: 453388
Notes:This document was apparently not entered in the case against Frick. Frick made the statement in November 1945, and it was sworn to on 5 January 1946.
Trial Issues
Biographical and character evidence (all cases) Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
PS-3043: Sworn and signed affidavit of Frick [Illegible] responsibility in risk of National Socialism