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Baldur von Schirach

Nazi Party youth leader; told the Nuremberg tribunal in 1946 that Ford’s book had shaped his antisemitism; convicted of crimes against humanity.

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Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals

1 Oct 1946 Convicted by International Military Tribunal: crimes against humanity (Count Four) 1

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International Military Tribunal 1 Oct 1946 crimes against humanity (Count Four) Primary record 1

The International Jew According to Baldur von Schirach Primary record 2
His own account, given in his defence to the Nuremberg tribunal on 23 May 1946; the tribunal did not test it.

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Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Vol. 22: Tuesday, 1 October 1946 (judgment and sentences), The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 1 Oct 1946. Primary record
The Tribunal finds that Von Schirach is not guilty on Count One. He is guilty under Count Four.
Bulletins describing the Jewish extermination were in his office.
Defendant Baldur von Schirach, on the Count of the Indictment on which you have been convicted, the Tribunal sentences you to twenty years' imprisonment.
In 1931 he was made Reich Youth Leader of the Nazi Party with control over all Nazi youth organizations including the Hitler Jugend.
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Vol. 14: Thursday, 23 May 1946, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 23 May 1946. Primary record
was Henry Ford's book, The International Jew; I read it and became anti-Semitic.
Dr. Sauter, the Tribunal thinks, as I have said twice now, that the educational influences of the defendant are quite irrelevant to us.

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