In the face of the evidence before the Tribunal it is
idle for Streicher to suggest that the solution of the Jewish problem
which he favored was strictly limited to the classification of Jews
as aliens, and the passing of discriminatory legislation such as the
Nuremberg Laws, supplemented if possible by international agreement
on the creation of a Jewish State somewhere in the world, to which
all Jews should emigrate.
Streicher's incitement to murder and extermination at the time
when Jews in the East were being killed under the most horrible
conditions clearly constitutes persecution on political and racial
grounds in connection with War Crimes, as defined by the Charter, and
constitutes a Crime against Humanity.
Conclusion
The Tribunal finds that Streicher is not guilty
on Count One, but that he is guilty on Count Four.
FUNK
Funk is indicted under all four Counts. Funk, who
had previously been a financial journalist, joined the Nazi Party in
1931, and shortly thereafter became one of Hitler's personal economic
advisers. On 30 January 1933 Funk was made Press Chief in the Reich
Government, and on 11 March 1933 became Under Secretary in the
Ministry of Propaganda and shortly thereafter a leading figure in the
various Nazi organizations which were used to control the press,
films, music, and publishing houses. He took office as Minister of
Economics and Plenipotentiary General for War Economy in early 1938
and as President of the Reichsbank in January 1939. He succeeded
Schacht in all three of these positions. He was made a member of the
Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich in August 1939, and
a member of the Central Planning Board in September 1943.
Crimes against Peace
Funk became active in the economic field after
the Nazi plans to wage aggressive war had been clearly defined. One
of his representatives attended a conference on 14 October 1938, at
which Göring announced a gigantic increase in armaments and
instructed the Ministry of Economics to increase exports to obtain
the necessary exchange. On 28 January 1939 one of Funk's subordinates
sent a memorandum to the OKW on the use of prisoners of war to make
up labor deficiencies which would arise in case of mobilization. On
30 May 1939 the Under Secretary of the Ministry of Economics attended
a meeting at which detailed plans were made for the financing of the
war.