The trial of Walter Fink
Funk was charged with all four charges. Feng Ke was a journalist in economic circles in his early years. 193 1 joined the Nazi party and soon became one of Hitler's private economic advisers. 1933: On March 30th, he served as the press release officer of the German government, and on March 30th,1933 served as the deputy director of the propaganda department. Shortly thereafter, he became the leader of various Nazi organizations that controlled news, movies, music and publishing. At the beginning of 1938, he became German Minister of Economy and Plenipotentiary General Representative of War Economy. 1939 1 as the president of Deutsche Bank. His above three positions are to replace schacht's position. 1939 became a member of the german defense cabinet in August, and 1943 was appointed as a member of the central planning bureau in September. After Nazi's aggressive war plan was clearly formulated, Fink was extremely active in the economic field. One of his representatives attended the meeting held on June1938+1October 14, 2004. Goering announced at this meeting that he would expand his armaments on a large scale and instructed the Minister of Economy to increase export trade to earn the necessary foreign exchange. 1939 65438+1October 28th, a subordinate of fink submitted a memorandum to the high command of the bundeswehr about using prisoners of war to make up for the possible labor shortage during mobilization. On May 30th, 1939, Vice Minister of Economic Affairs attended a meeting, at which a detailed war financing plan was drawn up. 1On August 25th, 939, Fink wrote to Hitler, thanking him for his participation in the extraordinary events that shocked the world. He also reported in his letter that his plan of "raising money for the war", the plan of controlling wages and prices and the plan of strengthening Deutsche Bank have all been worked out. He hid his eyes and ears and converted all the foreign exchange reserves available in Germany into gold. After the war started, he pointed out in a speech at 10 1939 10 and 14 that the German economic and financial departments serving the four-year plan spent more than a year making secret economic preparations for the war. Feng Ke participated in the planned economic attack on the Soviet Union. His deputy talks with Rosemburg about the possible economic problems after the occupation of Soviet territory every day. Fink himself personally participated in the plan of printing ruble banknotes in Germany before the Soviet invasion, which will be used as occupation currency in the Soviet Union. After attacking the Soviet Union, he made a speech and expounded his plan to fully extract "the vast areas of the Soviet Union" from the economy, which will become the raw material base of Europe. Fink was not the central figure in making Nazi aggression war plans. His activities in economic life are subordinate to Goering, the plenipotentiary general representative of the four-year plan. However, he took part in some economic preparations for wars of aggression, mainly against Poland and the Soviet Union. According to article 2 of the grounds for prosecution, his crime can be fully explained. As deputy director of the Propaganda Department and vice chairman of the German Cultural Association, Funk played a role in the early Nazi plan to deprive Jews of their economic rights. 1938165438+1October 12, that is, after the165438+1October massacre, he attended a meeting hosted by Goering to discuss how to solve the Jewish problem. He suggested issuing an order requiring all Jews to withdraw from all commercial activities. Goering issued this name on the same day as the plenipotentiary general representative of the four-year plan. Although Feng Ke admitted that he was shocked by the events that broke out in June 165438+ 10/0, he declared in his speech on June 65438+10/5 that these events were "German citizens versus Jews versus Germans. He also pointed out that logically speaking, the expulsion of Jews from economic life is the inevitable result of their expulsion from political life. 1942, fink and Himmler reached an agreement, according to which the German state obtained a batch of gold, jewelry and currency from the SS. He also instructed the subordinates in charge of handling specific details not to ask any unnecessary questions. According to the agreement, the SS handed over the personal belongings and valuables found in the victims of the concentration camp to the National Bank. The National Bank recycles coins and banknotes and sends jewelry, watches and personal belongings to pawn shops in Berlin. Gold, gold teeth and gold tooth fillings removed from glasses are sent to the vault of the National Bank for storage. Fink argued that he didn't know that the National Bank accepted the goods in this way. The court held that either Feng Ke knew about the seized goods or pretended not to know, and either of them must be one of them. As the Minister of Economy and the President of Deutsche Bank, Funk participated in the economic development of the occupied areas. Funk is responsible for the confiscation of the gold reserves of Czechoslovakia National Bank and the confiscation of Yugoslavia National Bank. 1On June 6, 942, his deputy wrote to the Supreme Command of the National Defence Force, demanding that the French occupation fee be used to buy black market goods. Fink attended the meeting of1August 8, 942, which proved his familiarity with the German occupation policy. Goering spoke to some German-occupied officials at the above-mentioned meeting and told them what products should be collected from the areas under their jurisdiction, adding: "You may think that people there are starving to death, but it doesn't matter to me whether you say this or not." 1in the autumn of 943, Feng Ke was appointed as a cabinet member in charge of central planning. He was responsible for determining the number of labors needed by German industry and instructed Sauckel to provide them, usually by escorting them out of the occupied areas. It seems that Funk is not interested in this part of the compulsory labor plan. In most cases, he only sends one deputy to attend such meetings. This man is the former head of the German Internal Security Agency of the SS and the former captain of the D Special Action Team. But Feng Ke knew the above facts, because he was a member of the cabinet, and it was this institution that demanded the import of slave labor and distributed it to various industrial sectors under his control. As the president of Deutsche Bank, Funk should also be indirectly responsible for the use of labor in concentration camps. Under his decision, the National Bank opened a bank account of12 million marks for the SS to build a factory using the labor in the concentration camp. Although he holds an important position among senior officials and has participated in various plans, he has never been the decision maker of these plans. This can be used as a reason for the court to consider reducing the sentence. The court ruled that Feng Ke was not guilty according to the first reason of prosecution; However, according to the second, third and fourth charges, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.