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The Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941 was an encounter between Adolf Hitler and the highest-ranking officials of the Nazi Party.Almost all important party leaders were present to hear Hitler declare the ongoing destruction of the Jewish race, which culminated in the Holocaust.
The Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941 was held between Hitler and high-ranking officials of the Nazi Party. The meeting marked a decisive step toward the implementation of the Final Solution when Hitler announced that the Jewish race was to be annihilated.
On December 12, 1941, Hitler spoke in front of about 50 Party leaders in the Reich's Chancellery in Berlin. He said that now, with Germany's declaration of war against the United States, the time had come for his January 1939 prophecy about the annihilation of the Jews to be fulfilled.
May 1941: Martin Bormann is granted cabinet rank as the Chief of the Nazi Party Chancellery. July 1941: Alfred Rosenberg enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories. December 1941: Kerrl, the Reich Minister of Church Affairs, dies. Hermann Muhs becomes Acting Reich Minister.
The New Reich Chancellery Building— Speech at the Kroll Opera House; Fear of the Reichstag— Annexation of the Remainder of Czechoslovakia— The Question of the Polish Corridor; Reunification with the Memel Territory— Directive for "Case White" Roosevelt's Position and Hitler's Answer in the Reichstag
The Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called Reichskanzler) in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875, was the former city palace of Adolf Friedrich Count von der Schulenburg (1685–1741) and ...
His field of responsibility included coordinating work with all the ministries and finalizing legislation. He became a close confidant of Martin Bormann who, on 12 May 1941, became head of the Party Chancellery, the successor organization to Hess' office. [3] Along with Helmuth Friedrichs, Klopfer was the highest-ranking official under Bormann.
From 1933 until 1945 he served as Chief of the Reich Chancellery under Adolf Hitler. In 1937, he additionally was given the post of Reichsminister in the cabinet. During the 1948–1949 Ministries Trial , Lammers was found guilty of crimes against peace, war crimes , crimes against humanity , and membership in a criminal organization.