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Memorandum on the Foreign Office draft policy on the treatment of captured Allied airmen, and Goering's agreement
IMT
Authors
Walter Warlimont (general; deputy chief, operations staff of the armed forces)
Walter Warlimont
German general (1894-1976)
- Born: 1894-10-03 (Osnabrück)
- Died: 1976-10-09 (Kreuth)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: military officer (military rank: general)
- Member of: High Command of the Armed Forces (since: 1941-01-01)
- Participant in: Hostages Trial (date: 1947-07-04; role: affiant); Judges' Trial
- Significant person: Hermann Foertsch (role: colleague, friend); Walter Kuntze
- Military rank: General of the Artillery
Date: 30 June 1944
Literal Title: Subject: Treatment of enemy terror-aviators
Defendants: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Joachim Ribbentrop, von
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-740
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 153
Document Book No: Prosecution 6
Citation: IMT (page 2373)
HLSL Item No.: 451968
Notes:For Ritter's letter to the military high command, which is cited, see document PS 728.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-740: Warlimont's Top Secret Note on plans for the killing of certain allied fliers
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-740: Top-secret note by Warlimont, 30 June 1944, on von Rib-bentrop’s and Goring’s attitude toward the proposed procedure against enemy fliers
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-740: Memorandum by Warlimont (handwritten signature) to Keitel, dated 30 June 1944 and initialed by Keitel.
before the letter (the approved draft of the fliers order) is forwarded to Keitel.