| Document | Description | Vol. | Page |
| Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Article 6. | I | 5 | |
| International Military Tribunal, Indictment Number 1, Section IV (H); Appendix A. | I | 29, 64 | |
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| Note: A single asterisk (*) before a document indicates that the document was received in evidence at the Nurnberg trial. A double asterisk (**) before a document number indicates that the document was referred to during the trial but was not formally received in evidence, for the reason given in parentheses following the description of the document. The USA series number, given in parentheses following the description of the document, is the official exhibit number assigned by the court. | |||
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| *386-PS | Notes on a conference with Hitler in the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 5 November 1937, signed by Hitler’s adjutant, Hossbach, and dated 10 November 1937. (USA 25) | III | 295 |
| *388-PS | File of papers on Case Green (the plan for the attack on Czechoslovakia), kept by Schmundt, Hitler’s adjutant, April-October 1938. (USA 26) | III | 305 |
| *789-PS | Speech of the Fuehrer at a conference, 23 November 1939, to which all Supreme Commanders were ordered. (USA 23) | III | 572 |
| *812-PS | Letter from Rainer to Seyss-Inquart, 22 August 1939 and report from Gauleiter Rainer to Reichskommissar Gauleiter Buerckel, 6 July 1939 on events in the NSDAP of Austria from 1933 to 11 March 1938. (USA 61) | III | 586 |
| *862-PS | Memorandum by General Friderici, Plenipotentiary of the Wehrmacht to the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, initialled by Keitel, Jodl and Warlimont, 15 October 1940, concerning plan to Germanize Czechoslovakia. (USA 313) | III | 618 |
| *1439-PS | Treaty of Protection between Slovakia and the Reich, signed in Vienna 18 March and in Berlin 23 March 1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 606. (GB 135) | IV | 18 |
| 1654-PS | Law of 16 March 1935 reintroducing universal military conscription. 1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 369. (Referred to but not offered in evidence.) | IV | 163 |
| *1708-PS | The Program of the NSDAP. National Socialistic Yearbook, 1941, p. 153. (USA 255, USA 324) | IV | 208 |
| *1760-PS | Affidavit of George S. Messersmith, 28 August 1945. (USA 57) | IV | 305 |
| *1774-PS | Extracts from Organizational Law of the Greater German Reich by Ernst Rudolf Huber. (GB 246) | IV | 349 |
| *1780-PS | Excerpts from diary kept by General Jodl, January 1937 to August 1939. (USA 72) | IV | 360 |
| *2031-PS | Decree establishing a Secret Cabinet Council, 4 February 1938. 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 112. (GB 217) | IV | 654 |
| 2119-PS | Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor concerning the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 16 March 1939. | IV | 751 |
| *2194-PS | Top secret letter from Ministry for Economy and Labor, Saxony, to Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, enclosing copy of 1938 Secret Defense Law of 4 September 1938. (USA 36) | IV | 843 |
| *2246-PS | Report of von Papen to Hitler, 1 September 1936, concerning Danube situation. (USA 67) | IV | 930 |
| *2247-PS | Letter from von Papen to Hitler, 17 May 1935, concerning intention of Austrian government to arm. (USA 64) | IV | 930 |
| 2261-PS | Directive from Blomberg to Supreme Commanders of Army, Navy and Air Forces, 24 June 1935; accompanied by copy of Reich Defense Law of 21 May 1935 and copy of Decision of Reich Cabinet of 12 May 1935 on the Council for defense of the Reich. (USA 24) | IV | 934 |
| *2288-PS | Adolf Hitler’s speech before the Reichstag, published in Voelkischer Beobachter, Southern Germany Special Edition, No. 142a, 22 May 1935. (USA 38) | IV | 993 |
| *2289-PS | Hitler’s speech in the Reichstag, 7 March 1936, published in Voelkischer Beobachter, Berlin Edition, No. 68, 8 March 1936. (USA 56) | IV | 994 |
| *2353-PS | Extracts from General Thomas’ Basic Facts for History of German War and Armament Economy. (USA 35) | IV | 1071 |
| *2357-PS | Speech by Hitler before Reichstag, 20 February 1938, published in Documents of German Politics, Part VI, 1, pp. 50-52. (GB 30) | IV | 1099 |
| 2358-PS | Speech by Hitler in Sportspalast, Berlin, 26 September 1938, from Voelkischer Beobachter, Munich Edition, 27 September 1938. | IV | 1100 |
| *2360-PS | Speech by Hitler before Reichstag, 30 January 1939, from Voelkischer Beobachter, Munich Edition, 31 January 1939. (GB 134) | IV | 1101 |
| *2385-PS | Affidavit of George S. Messersmith, 30 August 1945. (USA 68) | V | 23 |
| 2541-PS | Extracts from German Publications. | V | 285 |
| 2771-PS | U. S. State Department, National Socialism, published by U. S. Government Printing Office, 1943. | V | 417 |
| *2852-PS | Minutes of meetings of Council of Ministers for Reich Defense. (USA 395) | V | 512 |
| *2949-PS | Transcripts of telephone calls from Air Ministry, 11-14 March 1938. (USA 76) | V | 628 |
| *2972-PS | List of appointments held by von Neurath, 17 November 1945. (USA 19) | V | 679 |
| *2986-PS | Affidavit of the defendant, Wilhelm Frick, 19 November 1945. (USA 409) | V | 688 |
| *3045-PS | Letter, 12 March 1938, to British Embassy enclosing letter from Henderson to Neurath, 11 March 1938. (USA 127) | V | 765 |
| *3287-PS | Letter from von Neurath to Henderson, 12 March 1938. (USA 128) | V | 1090 |
| *C-139 | Directive for operation “Schulung” signed by Blomberg, 2 May 1935. (USA 53) | VI | 951 |
| *C-140 | Directive for preparations in event of sanctions, 25 October 1935, signed by Blomberg. (USA 51) | VI | 952 |
| *C-153 | Naval Armament Plan for the 3rd Armament Phase, signed by Raeder, 12 May 1934. (USA 43) | VI | 967 |
| D-449 | Extract from The Archive, 1937, p. 650. | VII | 58 |
| D-471 | Extract from The Archive, October 1937, p. 921. | VII | 59 |
| *D-660 | Extracts from Hutchinson’s Illustrated edition of Mein Kampf. (GB 128) | VII | 164 |
| EC-177 | Minutes of second session of Working Committee of the Reich Defense held on 26 April 1933. (USA 390) | VII | 328 |
| *EC-407 | Minutes of Twelfth Meeting of Reichs Defense Council, 14 May 1936. (GB 247) | VII | 462 |
| *L-150 | Memorandum of conversation between Ambassador Bullitt and von Neurath, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, 18 May 1936. (USA 65) | VII | 890 |
| *TC-22 | Agreement between Austria and German Government and Government of Federal State of Austria, 11 July 1936. (GB 20) | VIII | 369 |
| *TC-25 | Non-aggression Treaty between Germany and USSR and announcement of 25 September 1939 relating to it. (GB 145) | VIII | 375 |
| *TC-26 | German assurance to Austria, 21 May 1935, from Documents of German Politics, Part III, p. 94. (GB 19) | VIII | 376 |
| *TC-27 | German assurances to Czechoslovakia, 11 and 12 March 1938, as reported by M. Masaryk, the Czechoslovak Minister to London to Viscount Halifax. (GB 21) | VIII | 377 |
| *TC-34 | German Declaration to the Belgian Minister of 13 October 1937. (GB 100) | VIII | 381 |
| *TC-44 | Notice by German government of existence of German Air Force, 9 March 1935. (GB 11) | VIII | 386 |
| *TC-50 | Proclamation of the Fuehrer to the German people and Order of the Fuehrer to the Wehrmacht, 15 March 1939, from Documents of German Politics, Part VII, pp. 499-501. (GB 7) | VIII | 402 |
| TC-51 | Decree establishing the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 16 March 1939. (GB 8) | VIII | 404 |
| *Chart No. 1 | National Socialist German Workers’ Party. (2903-PS; USA 2) | VIII | 770 |
21. HANS FRITZSCHE
A. POSITIONS HELD BY FRITZSCHE IN THE NAZI STATE.
Fritzsche’s Party membership and his various positions in the propaganda apparatus of the Nazi State are shown in two affidavits made by himself (2976-PS; 3469-PS). Fritzsche became a member of the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933, and continued to be a member until Germany’s collapse in 1945.
Fritzsche began his service with the staff of the Reich Ministry for People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda (hereinafter referred to as the Propaganda Ministry) on 1 May 1933, he remained within the Propaganda Ministry until the Nazi downfall in the spring of 1945.
Before the Nazis seized political power in Germany, and beginning in September 1932, Fritzsche was head of the Wireless News Service (Drahtloser Dienst), an agency of the Reich Government, which at that time was the government of von Papen. After the Wireless News Service was incorporated into Dr. Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry in May 1933, Fritzsche continued as its head until 1938. Upon entering the Progapanda Ministry in May 1933, Fritzsche also became head of the news section of the Press Division of the Propaganda Ministry. He continued in this position until 1937. In the summer of 1938 Fritzsche was appointed deputy to Alfred Ingemar Berndt, who was then head of the German Press Division. (The German Press Division, in the Indictment, is called the “Home Press Division.” Since “German Press Division” seems to be a more literal translation, it is referred to as the German Press Division throughout this section. It is sometimes otherwise known as the Domestic Press Division.) This Division, as will be later shown, was the major section of the Press Division of the Reich Cabinet.
In December 1938 Fritzsche succeeded Berndt as the head of the German Press Division. Between 1938 and November 1942, Fritzsche was promoted three times. He advanced in title from Superior Government Counsel to Ministerial Counsel, then to Ministerialdirigent, and finally to Ministerialdirektor.
In November 1942 Fritzsche was relieved of his position as head of the German Press Division by Dr. Goebbels. In its place he accepted from Dr. Goebbels a newly created position in the Propaganda Ministry, that of Plenipotentiary for the Political Organization of the Greater German Radio. At the same time he also became head of the Radio Division of the Propaganda Ministry. He held both these positions in radio until the Nazi downfall.
There are two allegations in the Indictment concerning Fritzsche’s positions for which no proof is available. The first unsupported allegation states that Fritzsche was Editor-in-Chief of the official German News Agency, Deutsche Nachrichten Buero. The second unsupported allegation states that Fritzsche was head of the Radio Division of the Propaganda Department of the Nazi Party. Fritzsche, in his affidavit, denies having held either of these positions, and these two allegations must fall for want of other proof.