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The Obersalzberg Speech is a speech given by Adolf Hitler to Wehrmacht commanders at his Obersalzberg home on August 22, 1939, a week before the German invasion of Poland. The speech details, in particular, the pending German invasion of Poland and a planned extermination of Poles. It shows Hitler's knowledge of the extermination and his intention to carry out the said genocide in a planned manner. == Origin of the document == Three documents grouped together during Nuremberg Trials which were containing Hitler's speech on 22 August 1939 (1014-PS,〔"Translation of doc 1014-PS"http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/donovan/pdf/Batch_2_pdfs/Vol_IV_8_06.pdf〕 789-PS,〔"Translation of doc 780-ps"http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/donovan/pdf/Batch_2_pdfs/Vol_IV_8_05.pdf〕 and L-3,〔〔"L-3 is inside the footnote of the document"http://library.fes.de/library/netzquelle/zwangsmigration/32ansprache.html〕) and only the document L-3 contained Armenian quote of the Hitler's speech. Documents 1014-PS〔 and 798-PS were captured by the United States forces inside the OKW headquarters〔"ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND DAY Friday, 17 May 1946 page 64 " http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/05-17-46.asp〕 but these documents did not contain the Armenian quote. On May 16, 1946, during the Nurnberg War Tribunals, a counsel for one of the defendants, Dr. Walter Siemers requested from the president of the trial to strike out the document 1014-PS,〔 but his request was rejected by the president.〔ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST DAY Thursday, 16 May 1946 page 47"http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/05-16-46.asp〕 Document L-3 was brought to the court by an American journalist, Louis P. Lochner.〔 According to Louis P. Lochner, while stationed in Berlin he received a copy of a speech by Hitler from his "informant", which he published (in English translation) in his book ''What About Germany?'' (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1942) as being indicative of Hitler's desire to conquer the world. In 1945, Lochner handed over a transcript of the German document he had received to the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials, where it was labeled ''L-3''. Hence it is known as the ''L-3 document''. The speech is also found in a footnote to notes about a speech Hitler held in Obersalzberg on 22 August 1939 that were published in the German Foreign Policy documents〔"IMG Nürnberg 1014-ps" http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/A-Hitler-08-22-1939-at-Obersalzberg-on-planned-attack-on-Poland-and-extermination-of-Poles.pdf〕〔"Portrayals of Hitler Project" http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/projects/hitler/hitler.htm〕 When asked in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal who his source was, Lochner said this was a German called "Herr Maasz" but gave vague information about him.〔Reisman, Arnold, ''Could the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Have Erred in a Major Exhibit?'' (December 31, 2010). p.18. Available at SSRN: ()〕 The Times of London quoted from Lochner's version in an unsigned article titled ''The War Route of the Nazi Germany'' on November 24, 1945. The article stated that it had been brought forward by the prosecutor on November 23, 1945, as evidence. However, according to the ''Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik'' (ser. D, vol. 7, 1961), the document was not introduced as evidence before the International Military Tribunal for undisclosed reasons and is not included in the official publication of the documents in evidence. Two other documents containing minutes of Hitler's Obersalzberg speech(es) had been found among the seized German documents and were introduced as evidence, both omitting the Armenian quote.〔In his scholarly essay published in 2008, the German researcher Dr. Richard Albrecht discussed not only all five versions of Hitler's second secret speech delivered to his High Commanders on August 22nd, 1939, at Obersalzberg, but also republished the first German version of the fifth which later on was named the Lochner- (or L-3-) version, at first published in the German journal in exile, “Deutsche Blätter. Für ein europäisches Deutschland / Gegen ein deutsches Europa" (de Chile ), 2 (1944) 3, 37–39; see Richard Albrecht, “Wer redet heute noch von der Vernichtung der Armenier?”- Kommentierte Wiederveröffentlichung der Erstpublikation von Adolf Hitlers Geheimrede am 22. August 1939; in: Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte, 9 (2008) 2: 115–132〕 In ''Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression'' (colloquially also known as "the Red Set"), a collection of documents relating to the Nuremberg trials prepared by the prosecutorial team, the editors describe the relation between the documents concerned as follows: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Obersalzberg Speech」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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