Hermann Goering was charged today with having issued the orders which eliminated Jews from the economic and social life of Germany, during a review of his career by U.S. prosecutor Ralph G-Albrecht before the war crimes tribunal.
Albrecht said that Goering personally issued orders affecting Jewish housing, marriages and similar social matters, ordered that Jewish property and businesses be “Aryanized;” prohibited Jews from using dining cars, restaurants, hotels and other public places; ruled that Jaws were to be denied state pensions or any other social security; and regulated the question of mixed marriages. As commissioner of Germany’s “Four Year Plan,” he told Nazi Party leaders to eliminate Jews from German economic life. He stated that it was the duty of the German state to take over Jewish business and Jewish fortunes.
A report to Goering from the late Reinhard Heydrich, deputy Gestapo leader who was assassinated by Czech patriots in Prague, describing the destruction of synagogues, Jewish shops and dwellings during the programs of Nov. 1938 were read into the record, as was a speech Goering delivered in Munich in 1938 declaring that Vienna must rid itself of its 300,000 Jews, if it wished to be considered a German city.
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