Nuremberg Prosecution Charges Ribbentrop Was One of Chief Nazi Anti-jewish Conspirators

Joachim van Ribbentrop, former Nazi Foreign Minister, was charged today with being one of the chief conspirators in the Nazi plan to wipe out European Jewry, as British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe completed his case against Ribbentrop before the Allied war crimes tribunal.

Sir David submitted a report issued by Ribbentrop’s office in Jan. 1939 in which he outlined the Nazi policy of driving all Jews out of Germany minus their property, and opposed Palestine as a Jewish homeland because a Jewish state would provide a base from which world Jewry could send out representatives to all parts of the world and would offer a refuge to Jews “hunted by the police of other countries.” The report suggested that, instead, the western democracies set up a “Jewish reserve” in some part of their territory.

The same report contains a survey of anti-Semitic activities in North America, which devotes particular attention to the activities of Father Coughlin who, it asserts, had a radio audience of 20,000,000. It also includes sections on anti-Semitism in Greece, France and Norway.

The one-time ace Nazi diplomat, the British prosecutor said, was slated to expound Nazi anti-Jewish policies at an international conference in June, 1944, in Cracow, at which Nazi puppet governments in the Balkans and central Europe and the governments of Italy, France, Norway and Holland were to be represented. The ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and the Iraqui pro-Nazi leader Rashid Ali el Gailani were also invited to attend. The main aim of the parley was to have been devising means of fanning the flame of anti-Semitism in the democratic countries. However, the Russian advances and the invasion of Europe by the Anglo-American armies forced cancellation of the meeting.