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In the summer of 1945, Neumann travelled to Nuremberg, where he was to become the first chief of research of the [[Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal]] under chief prosecutor Justice [[Robert Jackson]].  Neumann was tasked with preparing an analysis of each of the twenty-two Nuremberg defendants, and various Nazi organizations.  From mid-September 1945, Neumann's R&A team prepared and supervised materials for a series of indictments with other OSS colleagues responsible for both interrogation and document analysis.  Donovan initially directed Neumann to examine ''religious persecution'' under the [[Nazi]] regime.   

In the summer of 1945, Neumann travelled to Nuremberg, where he was to become the first chief of research of the [[Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal]] under chief prosecutor Justice [[Robert Jackson]].  Neumann was tasked with preparing an analysis of each of the twenty-two Nuremberg defendants, and various Nazi organizations.  From mid-September 1945, Neumann's R&A team prepared and supervised materials for a series of indictments with other OSS colleagues responsible for both interrogation and document analysis.  Donovan initially directed Neumann to examine ''religious persecution'' under the [[Nazi]] regime.   

The reports analysis of "the problem of establishing criminal responsibility" provided the prosecutorial strategy.  The thinking was to show that measures taken against the [[Christian Church]]es were an integral part of [[National Socialism]]. It also attempted to show that measures were criminal from the standpoint of [[German]] or [[international law]], depending where a given act was committed.  This applied the typical [[Frankfurt School]] methodology of "immanent critique" to argue that the Nazi regime can be convicted most effectively by demonstrating that it violated not only the laws of ‘foreign’ occupied countries, but also the very ‘Germanic’ traditions it claimed to uphold. The report claimed key articles of the [[Weimar Constitution]] "were never formally abrogated by the National Socialist regime, … were left untouched and still remain theoretically in force."  Furthermore: "respect for the principle of [[religious freedom]]", continued to be reiterated in various official policy statements of the Nazi regime, and in various "enactments of the National Socialist state, particularly the Concordat of 20 July 1933."

The reports analysis of "the problem of establishing criminal responsibility" provided the prosecutorial strategy.  The thinking was to show that measures taken against the [[Christian church]]es were an integral part of [[National Socialism]]. It also attempted to show that measures were criminal from the standpoint of [[German]] or [[international law]], depending where a given act was committed.  This applied the typical [[Frankfurt School]] methodology of "immanent critique" to argue that the Nazi regime can be convicted most effectively by demonstrating that it violated not only the laws of ‘foreign’ occupied countries, but also the very ‘Germanic’ traditions it claimed to uphold. The report claimed key articles of the [[Weimar Constitution]] "were never formally abrogated by the National Socialist regime, … were left untouched and still remain theoretically in force."  Furthermore: "respect for the principle of [[religious freedom]]", continued to be reiterated in various official policy statements of the Nazi regime, and in various "enactments of the National Socialist state, particularly the Concordat of 20 July 1933."

The material on ''religious persecution'' is placed in the wider context of how these agencies committed crimes against humanity as an integral part of the Nazi's master plan, its conspiracy to seize and consolidate ideological control and totalitarian power within Germany by eradicating sources of actual and potential opposition. This material formed part of the evidence on which these agencies were judged to be criminal organisations.  Neumann's group wrote,  

The material on ''religious persecution'' is placed in the wider context of how these agencies committed crimes against humanity as an integral part of the Nazi's master plan, its conspiracy to seize and consolidate ideological control and totalitarian power within Germany by eradicating sources of actual and potential opposition. This material formed part of the evidence on which these agencies were judged to be criminal organisations.  Neumann's group wrote,