Extract from a speech, on the creation of the Secret State Police (Gestapo) in order to act against "all currents directed against the new state"

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Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

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  • Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
  • Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
  • Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
  • Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
  • Member of: Sturmabteilung
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
  • Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

Date: 18 June 1934

Literal Title: "Speeches and Essays" (Reden und Aufsaetze) of Hermann Goering . . . Excerpt from the speech delivered at the labor-meeting of the Prussian State Counsel [sic] on June 18, 1934

Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering

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-3343

Citation: IMT (page 1891)

HLSL Item No.: 451640

Notes:This document was entered as miscellaneous evidence (judicial notice) without an exhibit number.

Trial Issues

Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

SPEECHES AND ESSAYS OF HERMANN GOERING, Munich 1939, page 102.
Speech delivered at the labor-meeting of the Prussian State Counsel on June 18, 1934
The creation of the Secret State Police was also a necessity. You may recognize the importance attributed to this instrument of state security from the fact that the Prime Minister himself has made himself head of this department of the administration because it is just the observation of all currents directed against the new state which is of fundamental importance.