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Affidavit concerning Frick's attempt to give Hitler naturalized citizenship in 1930 by appointing him to a civil service post in Thuringia
IMT
Authors
Robert M. W. Kempner (prosecutor, US war crimes staff)
Robert M. W. Kempner
German-American lawyer
- Born: 1899-10-17 (Freiburg im Breisgau)
- Died: 1993-08-15 (Königstein im Taunus)
- Country of citizenship: Germany (until: 1936-01-01); United States of America
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer
- Position held: Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
- Educated at: Humboldt University of Berlin
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/109498307
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000109333168; https://isni.org/isni/0000000368560787
Date: 11 December 1945
Literal Title: Affidavit
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-3399
Document Book No: Prosecution LL (Frick)
HLSL Item No.: 453406
Notes:Kempner states that Frick's attempt was blocked, and that Hitler was later given a post in Brunswick that conferred citizenship and enabled him to be a candidate for office. This document was apparently not entered in the case against Frick.
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-3399: Sworn and signed affidavit of Robert Kempner, re Hitler's naturalization