Speaker A
Germany and concentration camps was one of the things you found immediately necessary upon coming to power, is it not? Was it not? And you set them up as a matter of necessity. That's right. That is your answer, is yes, I think.
Nuremberg trial interrogation of Goering on Nazi concentration camps, court suppression, and SS roles in enforcing state terror.
Key Takeaways
- Nazi concentration camps were established immediately as a state necessity upon coming to power.
- Political police were exempted from court oversight to prevent judicial interference.
- The SS and SD were key organizations executing Nazi policies, including killings.
- The Nazi government operated through suppression of independent courts and use of propaganda.
- State terror and extrajudicial killings were institutionalized as necessary functions of the regime.
Summary
- The video features interrogation of Hermann Goering during the Nuremberg Trials regarding the establishment of concentration camps as a state necessity.
- Goering admits to prohibiting court reviews and independent trials for political prisoners, emphasizing the use of 'protective custody'.
- The interrogation highlights the Nazi regime's use of propaganda organizations and enforcement groups like the SS and SD.
- Goering acknowledges that killing was a state necessity carried out by organizations rather than by Hitler or himself personally.
- The SS and SD are described as the physical enforcers of Nazi orders and the executor arms of the Nazi party police.
- The questioning frames the Nazi government as a totalitarian regime where such measures were deemed necessary for control.
- The transcript reflects the legal scrutiny of Nazi policies and the justification of oppressive state mechanisms.
- The dialogue reveals the systemic suppression of judicial oversight in Nazi Germany.
- The video captures the historical context of Nazi governance and its reliance on terror and propaganda.
- The interrogation aims to expose the deliberate and systematic nature of Nazi crimes and governance.
Chapters
- 00:00Establishment of Concentration Camps
- 00:48Suppression of Court Reviews
- 01:13Prohibition of Judicial Oversight
- 02:44Protective Custody and Court Review
- 03:02Propaganda and Organizational Control
- 04:28Execution of Orders and Killings
- 05:39Role of SS and SD
- 07:05Nature of Nazi Government
- 08:32Justification of Nazi Regime Measures
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Speaker A
Yeah. Now, it's also necessary in operating this system that you must not have persons entitled to public trials in independent courts, and you immediately issued an order that your political police would not be subject
Speaker A
to court review or to court orders, did you not? The mission spy category—let's omit that. I haven't asked for that. If you just answer my questions, we'll save a great deal of time, and your counsel will be permitted to bring out
Speaker A
any explanations you want to make. You did prohibit all court review and considered it necessary to prohibit court review of the causes for taking people into what you call protective custody. That is right, isn't it?
Speaker A
Guns club untrotted. Now, now it is also a necessity in the kind of state that you had that you have some kind of organization to carry propaganda down to the people and to get their reaction and inform the
Speaker A
leadership of it, is it not, Mr. Schlossberg? And you also had to have certain organizations to carry out orders, executive organizations, organizations to fight for you if necessary, did you not? Well, if you wanted certain people killed,
Speaker A
you had to have some organization that would kill them, didn't you? This Rome and the rest of them were not killed by Hitler's own hands nor by yours, were they? It was state necessity to kill somebody.
Speaker A
You had to have somebody to do it, didn't you? Yeah, I've been unknown, and the SS and the SD organizations of that kind were the organizations that carried out the orders and dealt with people on a physical
Speaker A
level. Well, at what time did the SS perform this function of acting as the executor of the Nazi party, the police? Now, that is the type of government—the government which we've just been describing is the only type of government, the
Speaker A
type of government which you think is necessary to govern Germany. But all of these things were necessary things, as I understood you, to protect Nazi visiting a horde no advantage of cruncher for handen and Kenosha, yes. And,
Speaker A
I assume that that is the only kind of government that you think can function in Germany. By Willy, be happy when Xana brings them all these marbles. Well, that one's.
Topics:Nuremberg TrialsHermann GoeringNazi Germanyconcentration campsSSSDprotective custodypolitical policestate terrorpropaganda
