einsatzgruppen





"The Einsatzgruppen Case"

MILITARY TRIBUNAL II

Case No. 9



LETTER FROM GOERING TO HEYDRICH CONCERNING SOLUTION OF JEWISH QUESTION, 31 JULY 1941



TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2856
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 148


LETTER FROM GOERING TO HEYDRICH CONCERNING SOLUTION OF JEWISH QUESTION, 31 JULY 1941



The Reich Marshal of the Greater German Reich
Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan
Chairman of the Ministerial Council for National Defense

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To The Chief of the Security Service, SS Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich

Complementing the task that was assigned to you on 24 January 1939, which dealt with arriving at - through furtherance of emigration and evacuation - a solution of the Jewish problem, as advantageously as possible, I hereby charge you with making all necessary preparations in regard to organizational and financial matters for bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe.

Whenever other governmental agencies are involved, these are to cooperate with you.

I charge you furthermore to send me, before long, an over-all plan concerning the organizational, factual, and material measures necessary for the accomplishment of the desired solution of the Jewish question.

- 133 -

Trials of War Criminals Before the Nurenberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Volume IV, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 132 - 133



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