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[2] "In the course of this work, Budd Schulberg apprehended Leni Riefenstahl at her country home in Kitzbühl, Austria, as a material witness, and took her to the Nuremberg editing room, so she could help Budd identify Nazi figures in her films and in other German film material his unit had captured.
The so-called "Red books" were officially published by the Nazi Party and contained the proceedings of each rally, along with the full text of speeches. [32] The "Blue books" were published initially by Julius Streicher, the Gauleiter of Nuremberg, and later by Hanns Kerrl, not by the party press. [32]
As with other books of the period, many of the woodcuts, showing towns, battles or kings were used more than once in the book, with just the text labels changed. The book is large at 18 inches by 12 inches. Only the city of Nuremberg is given a double-page illustration with no text measuring about 342 × 500mm. [9]
Previous to the time of the Nuremberg Trials, this excuse was known in common parlance as "superior orders". [citation needed] After the prominent, high-profile event of the Nuremberg Trials, that excuse is now referred to by many as the "Nuremberg Defense". In recent times, a third term, "lawful orders" has become common parlance for some people.
Plan "Oldenburg" (Göring's "Green Folder") was the code-name of the economic subsection of the planned attack on the Soviet Union. Following Hitler's issuance of Führer Directive 21, which ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler instructed Göring to develop a plan for the future exploitation of conquered territory in the East.
Among the many war crimes they faced, the Nazi officials were accused of crimes against peace and -- for the first time in history, crimes against humanity.
Nazi Germany. This is a list of books about Nazi Germany, the state that existed in Germany during the period from 1933 to 1945, when its government was controlled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party).
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