Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt

1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

• Gerd von Rundstedt: War Hitler ein grosser Feldherr?

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3727020
• English, Hebrew
• 1945-1946
• Handwritten, original Typewritten original 12 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

"War Hitler ein grosser Feldherr?" (Was Hitler a Great Commander?), an essay by Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt "War Hitler ein grosser Feldherr?", an essay by Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, assessing Hitler's skills as a military commander. Written in von Rundstedt's Nuremberg prison cell at the request of Dr. G.M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, the essay argues that Hitler lost the war because he did not listen to the General Staff but to "irresponsible laymen in the Nazi Party and propaganda circles".

1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3689731
• English, Hebrew
• Original 73 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Various orders issued by Wehrmacht commanders taken from Nuremberg Trial documentation regarding Wehrmacht treatment of Jews, POWs, partisans and the local population in areas of the Soviet Union Also in the file: - Communication issued by Von Brauchitsch regarding an agreement between the Wehrmacht and SIPO (Security Police) about cooperation with the Einsatzgruppen (Document NOKW-2080), 28 April 1941; - Communication issued by Walter Schellenberg from the RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) regarding exploitation of labor power of the populations in the countrie...