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membership in the Nazi Party (which had been declared a criminal organisation)
This is overstated. Rank-and-file membership in the Nazi Party was not what Nuremberg declared criminal, and the postwar report on Göth's case says his NSDAP membership was not criminal because he was only an ordinary party member.
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The contemporary law report on Göth's trial says the Polish tribunal did not have a formal legal basis to punish membership in a criminal organization on 5 September 1946, and it explicitly distinguishes Göth's SS membership from his Nazi Party membership.
That report states that Göth "did not belong to the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party which alone has been declared criminal by the Nuremberg Judgment" and was "merely an ordinary member of the Party. His membership as such in this organization was therefore not criminal." In other words, the legally relevant criminal-organization finding applied to the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, not ordinary Nazi Party membership.
This matches the Nuremberg materials, which identify the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party as the organization for which criminality was sought and declared, rather than the entire rank-and-file Nazi Party.
So the article's wording is inaccurate because it implies that Göth was guilty simply for ordinary Nazi Party membership and that the Nazi Party as a whole had been declared criminal. The more accurate statement is that the criminal-organization issue concerned the Leadership Corps and Göth's Waffen-SS membership, not ordinary NSDAP membership as such.
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- Trial of Amon Leopold Goeth, Case No. 37, Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Vol. 7
The report says the Tribunal had 'no formal legal basis ... on which it could base a penalty for the membership in a criminal organization' and that Göth 'did not belong to the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party which alone has been declared criminal by the Nuremberg Judgment ... His membership as such in this organization was therefore not criminal.'
- Judgment/Transcript of the International Military Tribunal on the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party
The Nuremberg materials state: 'The Indictment has named THE LEADERSHIP CORPS OF THE NAZI PARTY ... [as] a group or organization which should be declared criminal,' showing that the criminal declaration concerned the Leadership Corps, not ordinary Nazi Party membership.
Odilo Globočnik, the SS and Police Leader of the Kraków area
Globocnik was not the SS and Police Leader of Kraków. He was SS and Police Leader for the Lublin district; Kraków's SS and Police commander was a different official.
Full reasoning
This misidentifies Odilo Globočnik's post.
Authoritative Holocaust references place Globočnik in Lublin, not Kraków. Yad Vashem's biographical note says that in November 1939 he was named SS and Police Leader for the Lublin district of Poland. Likewise, Oxford's Holocaust and Genocide Studies describes "the Office of the SS and Police Leader in the Lublin District under Odilo Globocnik."
By contrast, sources on Kraków identify Julian Scherner as the SS and Police Leader for the Kraków district during this period. So calling Globočnik the SS and Police Leader of the Kraków area is factually wrong.
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- Yad Vashem: Globocnik, Odilo
Yad Vashem states that in November 1939 Globocnik 'was named SS and Police Leader for the Lublin district of Poland.'
- Holocaust and Genocide Studies: 'The Austrian Connection: SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik and His Staff in the Lublin District'
The article describes 'The Office of the SS and Police Leader in the Lublin District under Odilo Globocnik,' confirming that his district was Lublin, not Kraków.
- Holocaust Memorial Day Trust: '13 March 1943: Kraków Ghetto is liquidated'
This source says 'Julian Scherner, commander of the SS and Police in the Kraków district, Poland, ordered the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto,' identifying Kraków's SS and Police commander as Scherner rather than Globočnik.