NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY
Munich 33 Brown House at present Berlin, 18 Jan 40 Bo/Si Thé Deputy of the Fuehrer, Chief of Staff
Mr. Rosenberg, member of the executive board of the Party [Reichsleiter]
Berlin W 35 Margaretenstr. 17
Office Rosenberg No of entry 196. 20 Jan 40 submitted to RL Rosbg 1/20 Copies AR and Urban Dear Party Member Rosenberg:
A few days ago you expressed to the Fuehrer at the Reich Chancellory that Reich Bishop Mueller had written an excellent book for the German soldier. I am of different opinion. This book familiarizes a new soldier who has already given up Christianity with partly camouflaged trains of thought.
As I have written to you already, I consider it the most essential demand of the hour that NS publications worth reading for the German soldier should be written immediately by your Office and other qualified National Socialists. This opinion has been confirmed by many regional Party leaders. Thus we set against the sale of Christian pamphlets the highly increased sale of national socialist publications which are popular.
Heil Hitler:
Yours
Signed: BORMANN
(M. Bormann)
Letter to Alfred Rosenberg criticizing Bishop Ludwig Mueller's book for soldiers, and asking that books published by the party for soldiers be written by "qualified National Socialists"
Authors
Martin Bormann (Chief, Party Chancellery, deputy to Hess, then Hitler)
Martin Bormann
German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-07-17 1900-06-17 (Halberstadt)
- Died: 1945-05-02 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: farmer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Aryanization; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant; since: 1945-11-19)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer; soldier
Date: 18 January 1940
Defendants: Martin Bormann, Alfred Rosenberg
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-100
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450429
Notes:Another copy of PS 100 would be entered as US exhibit 691 in the case against Bormann.
Trial Issues
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…