This video contains basically all the same contents that the text below but it also has audio recordings or video footage of all those 'Nuremberg Trial Proceedings' parts.
Wikipedia: Hermann Goering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring):
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German political and military leader and a convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Following the establishment of the Nazi state, Göring amassed power and political capital to become the second most powerful man in Germany.
History.com: Preparations for the Final Solution begin (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-his ... l-solution):
On July 31, 1941, Hermann Göring, writing under instructions from Hitler, ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler’s number-two man, “to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.”
Wannsee Protocol, January 20, 1942 (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/wannsee.asp):
"Chief of the Security Police and of the SD, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich, reported that the Reich Marshal [Goering] had appointed him delegate for the preparations for the final solution of the Jewish question in Europe"
The Reichsfuhrer-SS [Himmler] and the Chief of the German Police (Chief of the Security Police and the SD) [Heydrich] was entrusted with the official central handling of the final solution of the Jewish question without regard to geographic borders.
The Chief of the Security Police and the SD then gave a short report of the struggle which has been carried on thus far against this enemy, the essential points being the following:
a) the expulsion of the Jews from every sphere of life of the German people,
b) the expulsion of the Jews from the living space of the German people.
In carrying out these efforts, an increased and planned acceleration of the emigration of the Jews from Reich territory was started, as the only possible present solution.
By order of the Reich Marshal [Goering], a Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration was set up in January 1939 and the Chief of the Security Police and SD was entrusted with the management. Its most important tasks were
a) to make all necessary arrangements for the preparation for an increased emigration of the Jews,
b) to direct the flow of emigration,
c) to speed the procedure of emigration in each individual case.
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In the meantime the Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of the German Police had prohibited emigration of Jews due to the dangers of an emigration in wartime and due to the possibilities of the East.
III. Another possible solution of the problem has now taken the place of emigration, i.e. the evacuation of the Jews to the East, provided that the Fuehrer gives the appropriate approval in advance.
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 9 - Thursday, 21 March 1946 - Morning Session (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/03-21-46.asp):
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Do you still say neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?
GOERING: As far as Hitler is concerned, I have said I do not think so. As far as I am concerned, I have said that I did not know, even approximately, to what extent these things were taking place.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: You did not know to what degree, but you knew there was a policy that aimed at the extermination of the Jews?
GOERING: No, a policy of emigration, not liquidation of the Jews. I knew only that there had been isolated cases of such perpetrations.
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 9 - Friday, 22 March 1946 - Morning Session (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/03-21-46.asp):
GEN. RUDENKO: Were you in accord with this principle of the master race and education of the German people in the spirit of it, or were you not in accord with it?
Goering: No, and I have also stated that I have never used that expression either in writing or orally. I definitely acknowledge the differences between races.
GEN. RUDENKO: But do I understand you correctly that you are not in accord with this theory?
Goering: I have never expressed my agreement with the theory that one race should be considered as a master race, superior to the others, but I have emphasized the difference between races.
GEN. RUDENKO: You can answer this question; it seems, you do not consider it right?
Goering: I personally do not consider it right.
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 9 - Thursday, 21 March 1946 - Morning Session (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/03-21-46.asp):
GEN. RUDENKO: Is it not true that the directives and the orders of the OKW with regard to the treatment of the civilian population and prisoners of war in the occupied Soviet territories were part of the general directives for the extermination of the Slavs? That is what I want to know.
Goering: Not at all. At no time has there been a directive from the Fuehrer, or anybody I know of, concerning the extermination of the Slavs.
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 9 - Thursday, 21 March 1946 - Morning Session (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/03-21-46.asp):
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: The Fuehrer, at any rate, must have had full knowledge of what was happening with regard to concentration camps, the treatment of the Jews, and the treatment of the workers, must he not?
Goering: I already mentioned it as my opinion that the Fuehrer did not know about details in concentration camps, about atrocities as described here. As far as I know him, I do not believe he was informed. But insofar as he ...
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: I am not asking about details; I am asking about the murder of four or five million people. Are you suggesting that nobody in power in Germany, except Himmler and perhaps Kaltenbrunner, knew about that?
Goering: I am still of the opinion that the Fuehrer did not know about these figures.
From 'The Nuremberg Interviews' by Leon Goldensohn (a psychiatrist at the Nuremberg trial):
"All of us knew that people were tried expeditiously in the concentration camps and were sentenced to death, but we didn’t know of innocent people being exterminated."
"That the Jews should be evacuated from Germany was clear. That the Jews should go to the general government in Poland was also clear. But not that they should be exterminated. After the war the Jews were to be brought to Palestine or elsewhere. The plan to evacuate them existed before the war. "
[Goldensohn:] "Did not Goering introduce the first concentration camps in 1933 or 1934?"
[Goering:] “Yes, I frankly admit concentration camps for Communists and other enemies of National Socialism at that time, but certainly not with the idea of killing people or of using them as extermination camps.”
"I think that the atrocities, if they existed — and mind you, I don’t believe they were technically possible, or if they were, I don’t believe Hitler ordered them — it must have been Goebbels or Himmler."
“The charge of conspiracy is a farce. It all goes back to the Versailles Treaty and the fact that Germany was forced to take steps to regain its dignity as a nation.
“I said in court and I repeat to you that this war was not started by Hitler or Germany but by the Allies. Your country obliged England to go to war when we invaded Poland.
"I am fully convinced that this trial is a mockery and that someday when you Americans have your hands full of Russian troublemaking [Cold War], you will see me and my activities in a different light."
"I am sure that I will go down in history as a man who did much for the German people. This trial is a political trial, not a criminal one. If there were criminal things perpetrated by the party, or the SS, or even the army, as is charged, I certainly had nothing to do with them. It is true that my position as second in command politically next to Hitler makes such a statement seem ridiculous."
"But none of Himmler’s subordinates ever came to me, and as far as I knew, atrocities did not exist. I am a man who is basically opposed to atrocities or ungentlemanly actions. In 1934 I promulgated a law against vivisection. You can see, therefore, that if I disapprove of the experimentation on animals, how could I possibly be in favor of torturing humans?"
From 'Nuremberg Diary' by Gustave Gilbert (a psychologist at the Nuremberg trial):
"For heaven's sake, do you think I would ever have supported it if I had had the slightest idea that it would lead to mass murder? I assure you we never for a moment had such things in mind."
"That guy Rudenko [Soviet prosecutor] was more nervous than I was, that's a sure thing. Hoho! but he pulled a boner [made a silly mistake] when I slipped in that one about the Russians transporting 1,680,000 Poles and Ukrainians to Russia. Instead of saying, 'We are not interested in your accusations,' he said, 'You do not have to bring up Soviet actions.'—'Actions,' he said. Hoho! I bet he gets a hot wire from old Joe on that one!"
[Gilbert:] "He [Goering] mentioned off-handedly that he did not think America would get away with its Negro problem so easily. This was apparently recently borrowed from Rosenberg, indicating the Nazi fear lest they die without leaving behind some heritage of racial hatred somewhere, to prove in a macabre sort of way that they were right after all."
"We weren't a band of criminals meeting in the woods in the dead of night to plan mass murders like figures in a dime novel."
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 9 - Friday, 22 March 1946 - Morning Session (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/03-21-46.asp):
GEN. RUDENKO: On 8 March, here in the Tribunal, your witness Bodenschatz stated that you told him in March 1945 that many Jews were killed and that for that you will have to pay dearly. Do you remember this testimony of your witness?
Goering: This testimony, in the form in which it was translated now, I do not recollect at all. The witness Bodenschatz never said it that way. I ask that the record of the session be brought in.
GEN. RUDENKO: How did Bodenschatz say that? Do you remember?
Goering: That if we lost the war we would have to pay dearly.
GEN. RUDENKO: Why? For the murders which you had perpetrated?
Goering: No, quite generally, and after all, we have experienced just that.
From Hermann Goering's Final Statement (Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 22 - Saturday, 31 August 1946 - Morning Session: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-31-46.asp):
HERMANN WILHELM GÖRING: "The prosecution, in its final speeches, has treated the defendants and their testimony as completely worthless. The statements made under oath by the defendants were accepted as absolutely true when they could serve to support the indictment, but conversely the statements were characterized as perjury when they refuted the indictment. That is very elementary, but it is not a convincing basis for demonstration of proof.
The prosecution uses the fact that I was the second man of the State as proof that I must have known everything that happened. But it does not present any documentary or convincing proof in cases where I have denied under oath that I knew about certain things, much less desired them. Therefore it is only an allegation and a conjecture when the prosecution says: "Who should have known that, if not Göring who was the successor of the Führer?".
Repeatedly we have heard here how the worst crimes were veiled with the most secrecy. I wish to state expressly that I condemn these terrible mass murders to the utmost and cannot understand them in the least. But I should like to state clearly once more before the High Tribunal that I have never decreed the murder of a single individual at any time and neither did I decree any other atrocities or tolerate them while I had the power and the knowledge to prevent them.
The new allegation presented by Mr. Dodd in his last speech, that I had ordered Heydrich to kill the Jews, lacks every proof and is not true either."
"Out of all the happenings of these 25 years, from conferences, speeches, laws, actions and decisions, the prosecution proves that everything was desired and intended from the beginning according to a deliberate sequence and an unbroken connection. This is an erroneous conception which is entirely devoid of logic and which will be rectified some day by history, after the proceedings here have proved the incorrectness of these allegations.
Mr. Jackson in his final speech, points out the fact that the signatory states are still in a state of war with Germany, and that because of the unconditional surrender merely a state of truce prevails now. Now, international law is uniform. The same must apply to both sides. Therefore, if everything which is being done in Germany today on the part of the occupying powers is admissible under international law, then Germany was formerly in the same position, at least as regards France, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Yugoslavia and Greece. If today the Geneva Convention no longer has any validity so far as Germans are concerned, if today in all parts of Germany industry is being dismantled and other great asserts in all spheres can be carried away to the other states, if today the property of millions of Germans is being confiscated and many other serious infringements on freedom and property are taking place, then measures such as taken by Germany in the countries mentioned above cannot have been criminal according to international law either."
"I did not want a war, nor did I bring it about. I did everything to prevent it by negotiations."
"I stand up for the things that I have done but I deny most emphatically that my actions were dictated by the desire to subjugate foreign peoples by wars, to murder them, to rob them or to enslave them or to commit atrocities or crimes.
The only motive which guided me was my ardent love for my people, its happiness, its freedom and its life. And for this I call on the Almighty and my German people to witness."
Additional:
Revision: Heinrich Himmler Denied the Holocaust: http://www.bitchute.com/video/5C17yVoHIBOK/
Hermann Goering's letter to Reinhard Heydrich, 31 July 1941 (with a German transcript and an English translation): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... B6ring.JPG