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WILHELM FRICK DENIES PRIOR INVOLVEMENT IN 'KRISTALLNACHT', AND NUREMBERG DEFENDANTS ARE DELIVERED TO EXECUTIONERS
WILHELM FRICK (1877-1946) Nazi Minister of the Interior, author of the Nuremberg Laws. Hanged at Nuremberg for his crimes. Incredible content partly-printed D.S. 'Frick' in indelible pencil, 1p. legal folio, Nuremberg, Jan. 18, 1946, a submission to the International Military Tribunal of 'Defendant's Application for Summons for Witness' to be called in Frick's defense. Amazingly, Frick asks that 'General [Kurt] Daluege' be summoned, his location: 'probably Court House prison in Nuernberg'. He claims that Daluege has knowledge that: 'Frick expressed opposition against the Jewish program of 9 November 1938 and demanded that the police should act...', further stating that the testimony is relevant to his defense as: 'The prosecuting attorney assumes that Frick was participating in the measures for the Jewish program'. Signed at bottom by Frick, and by his attorney OTTO PANNENBECKER. Very good. KURT DALUEGE (1897-1946) was Chief of Security Police in SD central office, appointed SS-Oberstgruppenfuehrer (1942), and later succeeded Reinhard Heydrich as Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (he in turn would be succeeded by Frick). He was indeed being held at Nuremberg as a major war criminal although it does not appear that he testified on behalf of Frick and in any event by the end of the year he would be tried and executed by the Czechs. As for Frick, by 1938 he had already been Minister of the Interior for five years. His power had increased immeasurably following the passage of the Enabling Acts, and by 1935, he had near-total control over local government. Frick was instrumental in the racial policy of Nazi Germany, drafting the infamous Nuremberg Laws in September 1935. The police field offices, subordinate to Frick, participated in the organization of 'Kristallnacht'. The attacks were organized through a series of secret teletype orders issued by Reinhard Heydrich, augmenting the riots that were already breaking out following the assassination of Ernst vom Rath. Afterward Heydrich reported on the loss of Jewish life and property resulting from the program. On November 12, 1938 Frick, his undersecretary Stuckart, Heydrich, and Daluege participated in a conference on the Jewish question under the chairmanship of Hermann Goering. At this meeting various measures were discussed which the individual governmental departments should initiate against the Jews. Goering's concluding remark in that conference was: 'Also the Minister of the Interior and the Police will have to think over what measures will have to be taken.' This document is mounted to heavy stock. SOLD WITH: Col. BURTON C. ANDRUS (1892-1977), Commandant of the Nuremberg Prison which housed the accused during the Nuremberg Trials. NUREMBERG DEFENDANTS ARE DELIVERED TO THEIR DEATHS The document is a very rare mimeographed copy of an original order signed by Andrus,1p. 4to., Nuremberg, Oct. 17, 1946, giving official notice of the delivery of the condemned prisoners to their executioners: '...On the morning of 16 October 1946 the condemned convicts were delivered to the door of the execution chamber where they were turned over to the representatives of the Third Army Execution Team at the hours shown as follows...' There follows a list of the ten condemned men and the times at which each was delivered to their ultimate fate, seven to nine minutes apart. There is an original check mark beside Frick's name, leading us to believe this very document accompanied Frick to the site of execution...or his body from it. The document also notes: '...Goering's carcass was delivered to the execution team at 0254...' Sold with a contemporary post-mortem image of Frick's corpse. Historic content. This document originates from the files of Hans Werner, Director of Printing for the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. It was his task to publish the 42-volume record of the trial using this document and scores of others. Following completion of his task, Werner was permitted to retain possession of the documents, which were never tagged as evidence. They were then sold by autograph expert Charles Hamilton in his auctions, in 1979.

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