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Memorandum to Hitler proposing the seizure of Jewish home furnishings in Paris and the occupied west, and the execution of 100 Jewish bankers, lawyers, and other "leading Jews" in reprisal for anti-German violence in France
IMT
Authors
Alfred Rosenberg (Commissioner for Ideological Training; Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories)
Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Tallinn)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany; Russian Empire; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: administrator; architect; journalist; opinion journalist
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party; Nazi Party
- Member of: Corps Rubonia; Militant League for German Culture; Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Date: 18 December 1941
Literal Title: Documentary Memorandum for the Fuehrer[.] Concerning: Jewish Possessions in France
Defendant: Alfred Rosenberg
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: PS-1
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 282
Document Book No: Prosecution EE
Citation: IMT (page 2420)
HLSL Item No.: 452149
Trial Issues
Plundering of private property and occupied territories (inc. Reinhardt Ac… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9)
Document Summary
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-1: Memorandum by Rosenberg for the FÜhrer, 18 December 1941, concerning seizure of Jewish property in the occupied west and the shooting of Jews in place of French hostages