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[pre…] -ceding paragraph were as follows: against Austria, 12
March 1938; against Czechoslovakia, 1 October 1938, and 15 March 1939; against
Poland, 1 September 1939; against the United Kingdom and France, 3 September
1939; against Denmark and Norway, 9 April 1940; against Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg, 10 May 1940; against Yugoslavia and Greece, 6 April
1941; against the U.S.S.R., 22 June 1941; and against the United States of
America, 11 December 1941.
3. In these invasions and wars of
aggression, many millions of people were murdered, tortured, starved, enslaved,
and robbed; millions of homes were left in ruins; tremendous industrial
capacity necessary to maintain the standard of living of peoples all over the
world was destroyed; agricultural land capable of feeding millions of people
was laid in waste; and a large part of the world was left in economic and
political chaos. The life and happiness of all peoples of the world were
adversely affected as the result of these invasions and wars of
aggression. |
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PARTICULARS
OF THE DEFENDANTS' PARTICIPATION IN
THE PLANNING,
PREPARATION, INITIATION AND WAGING
OF WARS OF AGGRESSION AND INVASIONS OF
OTHER
COUNTRIES |
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| A. The Alliance of Farben with Hitler and the Nazi
Party |
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| 4. In 1921, Adolf Hitler became the supreme leader, or Fuehrer, of
the National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazi Party. The
main points of the Nazi Party program, which remained unaltered until the
Party's dissolution in 1945, were to abrogate and overthrow the Treaties of
Versailles and Saint Germain, and reconstitute the Wehrmacht; to acquire
territories lost by Germany as the result of World War I; to acquire all other
territories in Europe assertedly occupied by so-called "racial Germans"; and to
acquire such other territories in the world as might be "needed" by the Germans
for "Lebensraum." The Nazis proclaimed that persons of so-called "German blood"
were a "master race" and were entitled to subjugate, dominate, and exterminate
other "races" and peoples, and that war was a noble and necessary German
activity. The Nazis proposed to achieve their ends by any means deemed
opportune, including resort to force and aggressive war. The policies and
program of the Nazi Party were continually and publicly reiterated and were
matters of common knowledge. |
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