Volume 4 — Introductory material (continued 17)
Reading edition
Section 3
(1) The provisions of this law relating to newspapers are valid also for political periodicals.
(2) This law does not apply to newspapers and periodicals which are published by official order.
(3) The Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda will determine which periodicals are to be considered as political within the meaning of the law. In case the periodical affects a certain vocational field, he will make the decision in agreement with the highest Reich or State agency concerned.
Section 4
Cooperation in the shaping of the intellectual contents of the German newspapers is also considered as such, if it does not take place in the management of a newspaper, but in an establishment, which is to supply newspapers with intellectual contents, (written word, news, or pictures).
Part Two
Admission to the Profession of Editor
Section 5
Persons who can be editors are only those who:
1. possess the German citizenship,
2. have not lost the civic rights [buergerliche Ehrenrechte] and the qualification for the tenure of public offices,
3. are of Aryan descent, and are not married to a person of non-Aryan descent,
4. have completed the 21st year of age,
5. are capable of handling business,
6. have been trained in the profession,
7. have the qualities which the task of exerting intellectual influence upon the public requires.
Section 6
For the requirement of the Aryan descent and the Aryan marriage, section 1a of the Reich Law for Officials [Reichsbeamtengesetz] and the provisions issued for its implementation will be applied.
Section 7
(1) Whoever has acquired the knowledge of an editor by training for at least one year (editor in apprenticeship) with the editorial staff of a German newspaper or an establishment of the kind mentioned in Section 4 and can prove this by certificate to the editorial staff will be considered as professionally trained. The apprenticeship served with a foreign newspaper may be made equivalent to the apprenticeship served with a German paper by means of the implementation order.
(2) The provisions of this law also pertain to the editors in apprenticeship with the exception of Section 5, Subsections 4, 5, and 6.
Section 8
The admission to the editorial profession will be affected by entry upon request in the professional editors’ list. The professional rosters are kept by the offices of the regional associations [Landesverbaende] of the German press (Section 24, Subsection 2). The registration will be passed upon by the head of Regional association. He must decree the registration, if the requirements which are set forth in Section 5 are fulfilled. He has to reject it if the Reichsminister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda protests.
Section 9
(1) Upon application by the head of the regional association the head of the Reich Association of the German Press (Section 23) with the approval of Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda may permit exceptions from the requirements set forth (Section 5, Nos. 1, 3, and 6). This exception can be limited to certain branches of the activity of an editor. In this case the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda grants the permission in accordance with the highest competent Reich or State authority.
(2) Exemption from the requirement of German [Reich] citizenship is to be granted to those of German origin if no special objections exist.
Section 10
The nominator must be notified in writing together with a statement of reasons of a decision by the head of the Land Association [Landesverband] rejecting an entry into the professional roster. The nominator may call for a decision by the professional court within four weeks after the notice. The appeal is not permitted if the circumstances fall within the purview of Section 8, 5th sentence.
Section 11
The head of the Land Association is required to decree the deletion of an entry in the professional roster if the requirements set forth in Section 5, Nos. 1, 2, 5, are not present, or the data furnished under Nos. 1-6 has been found incorrect, or the editor has given up his profession. Section 10, sentences 1 and 2 are correspondingly applicable.
Part Three
Exercise of the Profession of an Editor
Section 12
By registration in the professional roster, the editor becomes entitled to execute his profession with German newspapers or with German enterprises of the kind described in Section 4. If he moves into the district of a different Land Association, he will be transferred to the respective professional roster without further examination.
Section 13
Editors are charged to treat their subjects truthfully and to judge them according to the best of their knowledge.
Section 14
Editors are especially bound to keep out of the newspapers anything which:
1. in any manner is misleading to the public, mixes selfish aims with community aims,
2. tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly, the common will of the German people, the German defense ability, culture or economy, or offends the religious sentiments of others,
3. offends the honor and dignity of Germany,
4. illegally offends the honor or the welfare of another, hurts his reputation, makes him ridiculous or contemptible,
5. is immoral for other reasons.
Section 15
Editors are bound to exercise their profession conscientiously and by their behavior inside or outside their professional activities prove themselves worthy of the respect which this profession demands.
Section 16
The publisher of a newspaper may compel an editor by means of a contract to observe the fundamental policies of a newspaper. The public duties and rights of the editor which derive from Sections 13 to 15, cannot be affected by policies.
Section 17
Contracts for the hiring of an editor must be in writing.
Section 18
The publisher of a newspaper must appoint an editor-in-chief and is required to report his name in writing to the Land Association concerned.
Section 19
The editor-in-chief is required to draw up in writing a plan for distribution of work, from which must be evident what part of the tasks of editing are to be taken by each editor and to what extent he has the authority to issue directions to other editors, in accordance with the terms of the contracts of employment and the supplementary directives of the publisher.
Section 20
(1) Editors of a newspaper are responsible under professional, criminal and civil law, for its intellectual content so far as they themselves wrote or selected it. The responsibility under criminal or civil law of other persons is not thereby excluded.
(2) The chief editor is responsible for the over-all editorial policy of the newspaper.
(3) The editor-in-chief is required:
(a) to take care that only such contributions are accepted as have been written or selected for acceptance by an editor.
(b) to take care that the first and last names as well as the residence of the editor-in-chief and his deputies, as well as that of each editor to whom a specific part of the direction of a newspaper is delegated, is reported.
(c) upon request to give information to anyone establishing a legal interest therein, as to which editor bears the responsibility for a contribution, so far as this is not evident from the data under subdivision b.
Section 21
Editors who cooperate in the shaping of the intellectual contents of a newspaper by their activity with an enterprise of the kind mentioned in Section 4, are responsible for the contents to the extent of their cooperation.
Part Four
Protection of the Editorial Profession Afforded by the Laws Relating to Association.
Section 22
The editorial group as a whole will watch over the fulfillment of duty on the part of individual professional colleagues and will look after their rights and their welfare.
Section 23
Editors are legally united to the Reich Association of the German Press [Reichsverband der Deutschen Presse]. By virtue of his registration on the professional roster every editor belongs to it. By virtue of this law the Reich Association becomes a public corporation. It has its seat in Berlin.
Section 24
(1) The Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda will appoint the head of the Reich Association who will issue a charter for the Reich Association, which will require the approval of the Minister. The head of the Reich Association will appoint an advisory councilor.
(2) The Reich Association is organized in Land Associations. Further details are regulated by the charter. Editors who live abroad must belong to a Land Association in whose district there is a newspaper or an establishment of the kind outlined in Section 4, by which they are employed.
Section 25
(1) The Reich Association is required:
1. to establish educational, advanced training and welfare institutions for the editors,
2. to give expert advice to Reich and Land authorities,
3. to cooperate in the making of stipulations for employment of editors,
4. upon request of one party, to negotiate among editors, and to settle differences in case both parties agree.
5. to maintain professional courts for the press.
(2) The Reich Association may assume additional duties for the achievement of the purposes provided for in Section 22.
(3) The Reich Association is authorized to impose dues on its members in order to meet its expenses. The regulations governing this must have the approval of Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The dues are to be collected like public taxes.
Section 26
The Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda will exercise supervision to ensure that the Reich Association fulfills tasks which have been assigned to it.
Section 27
(1) Professional Courts [Berufsgerichte] will be established for the protection of the editorial profession.
(2) Professional Courts of the first instance are the District Courts [Bezirksgerichte] of the Press. Professional Courts of the second instance is the Press Court [Pressegerichtshof] in Berlin.
Section 28
The Professional Courts have jurisdiction:
1. to try and to decide whether the registration in the professional roster for cases set forth in Section 10 is to be decreed.
2. to try and to decide upon removals under Section 11.
3. to interpret termination clauses in editors’ contracts of employment [Anstellungsverhaeltnisses] under Section 30.
4. to try and to decide offenses of a professional nature on the part of editors (proceedings of an honor court).
Section 29
The termination of employment must be in writing and must contain a statement of reasons.
Section 30
A publisher may dismiss an editor because of the views expressed by him in the newspaper only if they are in conflict with the public professional duties of an editor or if they contravene the agreed policies. The Professional Court will, at the request of the editor, state whether the dismissal, in its opinion, has been contrary to the provisions of the preceding sentence or amounts to an evasion of them. Legal proceedings before the regular courts, if any have been initiated, are to be deferred until the requested opinion has been obtained.
Section 31
(1) An editor who fails in his public professional duties, as set forth in Sections 13 to 15, 19, 20, subsection 3, commits a professional misdemeanor. In such case the Professional Court may:
1. warn the editor,
2. punish him with a fine not exceeding the sum of one month’s professional earning,
3. decree the removal of his name from the professional roster.
(2) His license to exercise the editorial profession and to call himself an editor is terminated with such removal.
(3) The Professional Court may temporarily deny an editor, against whom proceedings in an honorary court have been instituted, the right to exercise his profession.
Section 32
Professional Courts shall consist of the President and the lay judges [Beisitzer]. Alternates are to be appointed for the President and the lay judges. The President and the lay judges must be eligible for the office of judge or for higher administrative offices. They must possess judicial independence. The lay judges and their alternates have to be editors and publishers in equal numbers. All members of the Professional Courts are appointed by the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The head of the Reich Association will nominate the editors, while the head of the Organization of Publishers in the Reich Press Chamber will nominate the publishers.
Section 33
The District Press Courts with five members, the Press Court [Pressegerichtshof] with 7 members, the President being included in both cases.
Section 34
The procedure before the Professional Courts will be regulated by a code of procedure which is decreed by the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in agreement with the Reich Minister for Justice after obtaining the opinion of the head of the Reich Association.
Section 35
The Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda may decree the removal of an editor from the professional list independent of the proceedings of the Professional Court, if he deems it necessary for pressing reasons of public welfare.
Part Five
Protection of the Editorial Profession Afforded by the Penal Laws
Section 36
Whosoever works as an editor despite the fact he is not registered in the professional rosters, or despite the fact that the exercise of his profession has been prohibited temporarily, will be punished with imprisonment up to one year, or fined.
Section 37
A publisher who entrusts a person who is not registered in the professional rosters or an editor who has been temporarily suspended from the exercise of his profession with the work of an editor as a main profession, or who maintains a newspaper without having appointed a chief editor, according to Section 18, will be punished by imprisonment of up to 3 months or by a fine.
Section 38
An editor who demands, accepts a promise of, or accepts a remuneration or any other advantage for an action which violates Sections 13 or 14, will be punished with imprisonment or fined.
Section 39
Whosoever attempts to induce an editor or a publisher or his deputy, by an office, promise or granting an advantage, to undertake, bring about or tolerate the shaping of the intellectual content of a newspaper, in violation of Sections 13 or 14, will be punished with imprisonment or fined for bribery of the press.
Section 40
(1) Whosoever attempts to induce an editor or a publisher or his deputy by means of threats to undertake, bring about or tolerate the shaping of the intellectual content of a newspaper in violation of Sections 13 or 14 will be punished with imprisonment or fined for unlawful interference with the press.
(2) If the unlawful interference with the press is exerted by misuse of the dependent employee-status of the editor, then the punishment must be not less than 3 months imprisonment.
Section 41
In cases under Sections 38 to 40 the judgment may include less of civil rights in addition to imprisonment.
Section 42
Whosoever assumes the title of an editor, despite the fact he is not registered in the professional roster, will be punished by fine of up to 150 Reichsmark or by imprisonment [haeft].
Section 43
The license of a publisher against whom there is a final judgment for violation of provisions contained in Sections 37, 39 and 40, may be revoked by the administrative authority having jurisdiction in such matters under the laws of the State.
Part Six
Concluding Provisions
Section 44
Regulations enabling delegates of a law-making body to limit prosecutions are not applicable to cases under sections 31 to 35 of this law.
Section 45
(1) Sections 7, 8, of the Reich Law relating to the Press of 7 May 1874 (RGBl I page 65) are not applicable to newspapers and political periodicals.
(2) Otherwise the provisions of the Reich Press Law relating to the responsible Editor in charge [Redakteur] are applicable to the responsible editor [Schriftleiter or Hauptschriftleiter] of newspapers and political periodicals, insofar as Section 20, subsection 1 and Section 21 of this law are concerned.
Section 46
The Reich Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda in agreement with the other Reich Ministers concerned may issue directives for the execution of these laws and for conversion from the old legal basis to the new one.
Section 47
The Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda will set the date on which this law becomes valid.
Berlin, 4 October 1933
The Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Dr. Goebbels
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1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 215
Law on the Formation of Student Organizations at Scientific Universities
22 April 1933.
The Government of the Reich has decreed the following law which is promulgated herewith:
Section 1
Students of German descent and mother tongue, fully registered with a scientific University shall constitute the Student-body of such University, regardless of their citizenship.
Section 2
The Student-body is a part of the University and represents the students as a whole. It shall be instrumental in ensuring that students fulfill their duties towards the people, the State, and the University.
Section 3
Details relating to organization and work of the student-bodies will be determined by Land governments’ Student Regulations and by the by-laws of the Universities and the Student-bodies.
Berlin, 22 April 1933. The Reich Chancellor ADOLF HITLER The Reich Minister of the Interior FRICK
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1934 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 375
Decree Relating to Tasks of the Reich Ministry for Education of 11 May 1934
Pursuant to the decree of the Reich President of 1 May 1934 (RGBl I, p. 365) I determine that the following affairs are transferred from the jurisdiction of the Reich Ministry of Interior to the Reich Ministry of Education:
1. Science
German scientific matters, also in their relation to foreign countries,
Physical-Technical Institute,
Chemical-Technical Institute,
Seismographical Institute,
Important Scientific Institutes inside and outside Germany,
Scientific Libraries,
Folklore,
Archeological Institute.
2. Education and Instruction:
High School-matters,
Support of students, “Reichsschaft” leaders of the students in German High Schools and
Craft Schools,
General School matters,
Elementary schools,
Private schools,
Craft and Technical Schools,
German school affairs in foreign countries,
Schools in foreign countries.
3. Youth Organizations.
4. Education of Adults.
The Reich Minister for Education is the authority in the outlined fields for the tasks including legislation. The participation of other Reich-Ministers is governed by general principles.
Berlin, 11 May 1934.
The Reich Chancellor ADOLF HITLER
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1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 241
Decree relating to the Reich Air Ministry of 5 May 1933.
A Reich Air Ministry is established as the highest Reich authority for Aviation. The Chief of this office shall have the title “Reich Air Minister.”
Jurisdiction will include the functions of the Reich in Aviation; the functions and authority of the now abolished Reichskommissar [Reich Commissioner] for Aviation are transferred to the “Reich Air Minister.”
This decree is effective from 1 May 1933.
Berlin, 5 May 1933.
The Reichpresident von Hindenburg The Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reich Commissioner for Aviation Goering
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1935 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 1029
Decree relating to the Coordination of the Jurisdiction of the Reich and Prussia in relation to Church Affairs of 16 July 1935
Those church affairs, which have hitherto come within the jurisdiction of the Reich and Prussian Ministry of the Interior as well as by the Reich and Prussian Ministry for Science, Education and National Culture, are transferred to the Reich Minister without Portfolio KERRL.
The Reich and Prussian Ministers concerned will issue more specific regulations for the execution of this decree.
Berlin, 16 July 1935.
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister of the Interior Frick The Reich Minister for Science, Education and National Culture Rust The Prussian Minister President By order Koerner
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1940 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 513
Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Appointing a Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions
17 April 1940
In order to consolidate the highest leadership of all offices engaged in the production of armaments and munitions in the Greater German Reich including the German Government for occupied Polish territories, I am appointing a Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions. I appoint as Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions the General Inspector of the German Highways Dr. Engineer Todt. The issuance of administrative regulations are reserved by me.
Berlin, 17 March 1940.
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The President for the Council of the Ministry for the Defense of the Reich Goering General Field Marshal The Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces Keitel The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers
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1943 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 529
Decree of the Fuehrer for the Concentration of the War Economy 2 September 1943
Considering the closer coordination and the unified employment of all economic forces, demanded by the necessities of war, I order for the duration of the war:
Article 1
The Reich Minister of Economy is competent for the basic economic-political questions of German economy.
Article 2
The competence of the Reich Minister for Economy in the realm of raw materials and production in industry and the trades are transferred to the Reich Minister for Armament and Munitions. The Reich Minister for Armament and Munitions will carry the designation, because of his enlarged realm of activity, of
“Reich Minister for Armament and War Production.”
Article 3
(1) The Reich Minister for Economy remains competent for the supply of civilian population with consumer goods and for their rationing.
(2) The Reich Minister for Economy is competent in the realm of raw materials and of the production in industry and trades and in the realm of commerce for the treatment of foreign commerce questions within the frame of the foreign trade policy of the Reich.
(3) Furthermore, he is responsible within the realm of the entire foreign trade, for the maintenance of the general economic viewpoints in the framework of the active German economic planning, and to direct German economy accordingly.
(4) The competence of the Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs in regard to the foreign trade policy of the Reich, and in regard to the preparation and execution of foreign trade policy conferences, remains untouched.
Article 4
(1) The Reich Minister for Economy is charged with the topmost supervision over the credit institutes, the supervisory and administrative rights, which belong, according to law or constitution, to the subordinated Reich or state authorities, are transferred to him. He delegates the supervisory or administrative rights to the subordinated officials, so far as he is not required to take care of them himself for special reasons.
(2) He is competent for the financial questions of the German economy.
Article 5
The authorities of the Reichsmarshal of the greater German Reich as Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan, remain untouched.
Article 6
This proclamation applies to the area of the greater German Reich including the incorporated Eastern territories and the Protectorate. In the protectorate also, the Reich Minister for Armament and War Production is competent in the realm of raw materials and the production in industry and the trades.
Article 7
The legal and administrative regulations, necessary for the execution and completion of articles 2, 3, and 4, will be issued: For Article 2 by the Reich Minister for Armament and War Production together with the Reich Minister for economy. For Articles 3 and 4 by the Reich Minister for Economy in agreement with the Reich Ministers concerned.
Fuehrer Headquarters, 2 September 1943.
The Fuehrer Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister and Chief of Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers
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1934 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 617
First Executive Order relating to the transfer of Forestry and Hunting Matters to the Reich of 12 July 1934
Article 1
Section (2)
The Reich Conservator of Forests [Reichsforestmeister] has as Chief of the Reich Board of Woods and Forests the position and the authority of a Reichminister.
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Berlin, 12 July 1934.
The Reichminister of the Interior Frick The Reich Forester Goering The Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture R. Walther Darre
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1937 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 95
Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Concerning the Reich Labor Leader in the Reich Ministry of the Interior of 30 January 1937
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ARTICLE 3
The Reich Labor leader in the Reich Ministry of the Interior will participate in sessions of the Reich Cabinet, in so far as matters under his jurisdiction are concerned.
Berlin, 30 Jan 1934.
The Fuehrer and Reichs Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister of the Interior Frick
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1943 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 495
Decree of the Fuehrer on the Establishment of a Supreme Reich Authority— “The Reich Labor Leader” of 20 August 1943.
In Amendment of the Reich Labor Service Law, in the form of the proclamation of 9 September 1939 (RGBl I, p. 1747), and of my decree of 30 January 1937 (RGBl I, p. 95), I ordain:
I
Under the title “The Reich Labor Leader,” a Supreme Reich Authority will be established, with a seat in Berlin.
II
(1) The Reich Labor Service is under the jurisdiction of the Reich Labor Leader.
(2) The powers of the Reichminister of the Interior derived from laws, decrees and orders concerning the Reich Labor Service will be transferred to the Reich Labor Leader. The processing of matters concerning the Reich Labor Service will no longer fall under the competence of the Reichminister of the Interior.
(3) The Reich Labor Leader is under my immediate jurisdiction.
Fuehrer Headquarters, 20 August 1943.
The Fuehrer Adolf Hitler The Reichminister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers
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1937 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 1317
Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor relating to Designation of the Chief of the Praesidialkanzlei of 1 December 1937
The State secretary and chief of the Praesidialkanzlei will carry in the future the official designation “State Minister and chief of the Praesidialkanzlei of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor.” He will be equal in rank to a Reich Minister.
Berlin, 1 Dec 1937
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The State Secretary and Chief of the Praesidialkanzlei
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1938 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 215
Decree relating to the Status of the Supreme Commanders of the Army and Navy of 25 Feb 1938
The Supreme Commander of the Army, General von Brauchitsch, carries the equivalent rank of a Minister of the Reich—as has already been the case with the Supreme Commander of the Navy, Admiral Dr. h.c. Raeder.
Following my orders, the Supreme Commanders of the Army and Navy shall participate in the meetings of the Reich Cabinet.
Order No. 461 of April 20, 1936 (Heeresverordnungsblatt page 163) is rescinded.
Munich, 25 Feb 1938
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers
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1941 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 295
Fuehrer Decree Relating to the Chief of the Party Chancellery of 29 May 1941
By order of May 12, 1941, I decree for the National Socialist German Labor Party that the hitherto existing office of Deputy Fuehrer should be designated from then on as Party Chancellery under my personal jurisdiction. In order to guarantee closest collaboration of the Party Chancellery with the Supreme Reich Authorities, I order in this connection:
The Chief of the Party Chancellery, Reich Leader Martin Bormann, has the powers of a Reich Minister; he is member of the Reich Government and the Ministerial Council for Reich Defense. Wherever in connection with laws, orders, decrees, ordinances, and other regulations the term “Deputy Fuehrer” is used, it will be replaced by “Chief of the Party Chancellery.” The instructions necessary for the execution and supplementing of this decree will be given by the Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery in agreement with the Chief of the Party Chancellery.
Headquarters of the Fuehrer, 29 May 1941 The Fuehrer Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers
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Directive
About the application of the Fuehrer decree regarding the position of the chief of the Party Chancellery, dated 16 January 1942.
Based on the Fuehrer decree about the position of the chief of the Party Chancellery, dated 29 May 1941, (RGBl I, page 295) the following is decreed:
Par. 1
(1) The participation of the Party in legislation is handled exclusively through the chief of the Party Chancellery unless otherwise directed by the Fuehrer. Proposals and suggestions for legislation coming from the Party, its organizations and affiliated associations, may be submitted to the competent supreme Reich authorities only through the chief of the Party Chancellery.
(2) The same procedure regarding collaboration of the Party in personnel questions of civil servants will be used exclusively through the chief of the Party Chancellery.
Par. 2
In legislative functions the position of the chief of the Party Chancellery will be that of a participating Reich Minister in all cases. The supreme Reich authority will therefore include him in the preparations for Reich laws, for decrees and directives of the Fuehrer, for directives of the Counsels of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich, as well as directives of the supreme Reich authorities to include executive directives and general directives. The same applies to his concurrence with laws and directives of the states and directives of the Reich deputies [Reichsstadthalter].
Par. 3
In fundamental and political questions, in particular those which serve to prepare, change or put into effect laws, decrees and directives, the channels between the supreme Reich authorities and the supreme authorities of the states which include several Gaue on the one hand, and the offices of the Party, its organizations and affiliated associates on the other hand, go through the chief of the Party Chancellery. Direct communication between the supreme Reich authorities and the supreme State authorities with other offices of the Party is not permissible in these cases. This applies to personnel matters regarding civil servants in as far as there are no special regulations.
Fuehrer Headquarters, 16 January 1942.
The Reichs Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers The Chief of the Party Chancellery M. Bormann
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1941 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 192
Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor concerning the Inspector General of the German Highways Administration of the 3rd of April 1941.
The Inspector General of the German Highways Administration has the power of a Reich Minister.
Berlin, April 3, 1941
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reichminister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers
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1941 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 467
Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor concerning the Inspector General for Water and Power of 29 July 1941
In consideration of the special needs of the war and the necessity of unified planning in the Greater German Territory I appoint for the administration and reconstitution of the power development and the Power and Water administration an Inspector General for Water and Power. He has within the field for his activity the position and authority of a Reichminister and a Prussian Minister. His office is the highest Reich authority and the highest Provincial authority in Prussia.
To the office of Inspector General for Water and Power I nominate the Inspector General for the German Highways, Reichsminister Dr. Todt.
I. Power Administration
(1) The responsibilities of the Reichsminister for Economics in the realm of power administration especially according to the law for the advancement of the power administration (Power administration law) of December 13, 1935 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, Page 1451) are transferred to the Inspector General for Water and Power.
(2) Art. 1 Sect. 2 of the power administration law receives the following interpretation:
“(2) The supervision is done by the Inspector General for Water and Power.”
(3) The Reichsminister for Economics remains responsible for
a. the determination of the electrical current demands of the industry and the requesting of the necessary amounts of power;
b. the preparation of the materials and coal required by the power industry;
c. the approval for the use of the stock market for the purpose of the power industry in accordance with the generally valid regulations and the adjustment of the claims of the power industry on the money and stock market with regards to the requirements of the entire industrial economy;
d. the approval for the rearrangement of the legal constitution of enterprises of the power industry especially for registered corporations, and for the introduction of new legal constitution in the field of the registered trade corporation.
II. Water Administration
(1) The responsibilities of the Reichminister and Prussian Minister for Food and Agriculture and of the Reichminister and Prussian Minister for Transportation in the field of Water Administration and the waterways are transferred to the Inspector General for Water and Power.
(2) The Reich—and Prussian Minister for Food and Agriculture remains responsible for the Agricultural matters in the Water Administration, namely for the carrying out of the agricultural accommodations [Folgoeinrichtungen]. The Inspector General for Water and Power decides, in agreement with the Reichminister for Food and Agriculture, concerning the carrying out of improvements in Agriculture and in the Fisheries as well as concerning the bearable burdens of the land owners.
(3) The Reich—and Prussian Minister for Transportation remains responsible for the traffic on the waterways.
(4) The Inspector General for Water and Power may transfer the technical supervision concerning the planning and the carrying out of Water Administrative measures and harbor constructions, to the water construction agencies, in so far as the execution does not lie in the hands of official agencies.
III. Mutual Regulations
(1) The Inspector General for Water and Power takes over at the very latest by April 1, 1942 the personnel of the Reich and of Prussia, which are occupied with the assignments now transferred to him. The Reichminister for Economics, the Reichminister for Food and Agriculture and the Reichminister for Transportation will immediately make available to him the pertinent business groups. Also included in this transfer are the furnishings and office material belonging thereto. The details of the transfer will be agreed upon by the participating Reichministers.
(2) For the execution of his missions the Inspector General for Water and Power may create corporations, institutions of a public legal nature or commercial legal companies, or other institutions in using new legal procedures.
(3) The Reichminister for the Interior and the Inspector for the field of responsibility transferred to them under inclusion of the road administration to prepare the development of a uniform administration within the framework of the general administration
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reichminister and Chief of the Party Chancellory Dr. Lammers
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1943 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 295
Decree of the Fuehrer on the Cabinet Legislation of 10 May 1943
Considering that the law of 24 March 1933 (RGBl I, p. 141) expires formally on 10 May 1943, I ordain:
The Reich Cabinet has to continue to exercise the powers entrusted to it by the law of 24 March 1933.
I reserve it to myself, to bring about the confirmation of these powers of the Reich Cabinet by the Greater German Reichstag.
Headquarters of the Fuehrer, 10 May 1943.
The Fuehrer Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellory. Dr. Lammers.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2104-PS
1933 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, PAGE 122
Law on the organization of a Secret State Police Office
The State Ministry has resolved on the following law:
Article 1
(1) The Secret State Police, with headquarters in Berlin, is organized in order to carry out the duties of political police with or in place of the ordinary police authorities (Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Code of Police Administration of June 1, 1931, Gesetzsammlung p. 77). The Secret State Police Office has the rank of a higher police authority and is subordinate only to the Minister of the Interior.
(2) The Minister of the Interior determines the functional and territorial jurisdiction of the Secret State Police Office.
(3) The regulations of the Code of Police Administration of June 1, 1931 concerning appeals against orders of the higher police authorities are applicable in so far as the Administrative Court in Berlin has exclusive jurisdiction over court appeals against orders of the Secret State Police Office.
Article 2
Within its jurisdiction, the Secret State Police Office can make requests for police action to all police authorities.
Article 3
The Minister of the Interior is entitled to issue administrative orders for the execution of this law. He acts in agreement with the Minister of Finance in regard to the number and type of officials and employees who should be employed by the Secret State Police Office.
Article 4
The law goes into effect on the day of its promulgation.
Berlin 24 April, 1933
The Prussian Ministry of State /ss/ Goering and by Popitz and for the Minister of the Interior
The above law, resolved by the Prussian State Ministry, is herewith promulgated.
Berlin 26 April 1933 /ss/ For the Reich Chancellor: The Prussian Prime Minister Goering
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2105-PS
1933 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, PAGE 413
Law on the Secret State Police of November 30, 1933
The State Ministry has resolved the following law:
Article 1
(1) The Secret State Police is an independent branch of the Administration of the Interior. The Prime Minister is its chief. He appoints an Inspector of the Secret State Police as acting manager of the affairs.
(2) In case of absence, the State Secretary of the State Ministry acts as deputy of the Prime Minister in his capacity as Chief of the Secret State Police.
(3) The Inspector of the Secret State Police is also chief of the Secret State Office.
Article 2
The jurisdiction of the Secret State Police covers all political police matters of the general and interior administration. The Prime Minister as Chief of the Secret State Police, will issue the regulations regarding the matters which must be transferred to the Secret State Police.
Article 3
(1) With the enactment of this law the Secret State Police Office takes over matters of a political nature which were previously handled by the Ministry of the Interior.
(2) The district, county and local police authorities [Landes Kreis und Ortspolizeibehoerden] are subject to the directives of the Secret State Police Office.
Article 4
The Minister of Finance is empowered to make changes in the budget of the State in order to carry out this law.
Article 5
Provisions of the law of April 26, 1933 (Gesetzsammlung 1933, p. 122) which conflict with this law are superseded by this law.
Article 6
This law goes into effect with its promulgation.
Berlin, November 30, 1933
The Prussian State Ministry, /ss/ Goering Popitz and as Minister of Interior
The above law, as resolved by the Prussian State Ministry, is herewith promulgated.
For the Reich Chancellor: For the Prussian Prime Minister Goering
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2107-PS
1936 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, PAGES 21-22.
(No. 14308) Law on the Secret State Police of 10 February 1936
Section VII
Orders in matters of the Secret State Police are not subject to the review of the Administrative Courts.
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Berlin, 10 February 1936
THE PRUSSIAN STATE MINISTRY GOERING FRICK
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2108-PS
1936 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, PAGES 22-24
Issue No. 5 distributed in Berlin, 12 Feb 1936. No. 14309
Decree for execution of the Law on the Secret State Police of 10 February 1936
On the basis of Articles 1 and 8 of the Law on the Secret State Police of the 10 February 1936 (Prussian Legal Gazette, page 21) is decreed:
Art. 1
The Gestapo is authorized to carry out the police investigations in high treason, treason and explosive cases, as well as other punishable aggressive actions against Party and State.
Art. 2
(1) In the proper competence of the Secret State Police, the Secret State Police Bureau is authorized to undertake measures in the entire territory of Prussia and measures effective for the entire territory.
(2) The Secret State Police Bureau assumes the competence of the Supreme Federal State Authorities in cases of the Law on guns and munitions of the 13 July 1928 (Reichs Legal Gazette I, page 198).
(3) The Secret State Police Bureau is a central collecting agency for political police information.
(4) The Secret State Police Bureau administers the state concentration camps.
(5) In Berlin the Secret State Police Bureau assumes the competence of the Secret State Police for the Federal-State-County and local police affairs. Whether, and to what extent these tasks will be transferred to the State Police office in Berlin—will be determined by the Chief of the Secret State Police.
Art. 3
The State Police offices may, within the framework of the competence of the Secret State Police, take all the measures incumbent upon the Secret State Police with the exception of the prohibition of periodicals in their district.
Art. 4
(1) Insofar as it is necessary for the detection and fighting of aspirations which are directed against the State, the authorities of the county and local police in towns of more than 5000 inhabitants may decree the confiscation of printed material and restrictions regarding the rights of association and assembly for the support of the Secret State Police. The county and local police authorities have to obey within this realm the instructions of the responsible office of the State Police.
(2) The State Police office at its location executes also the functions of the local police within the framework of responsibility of the Secret State Police.
Art. 5
The Secret State Police is an independent branch of the interior administration. Its officials, employees and paid personnel belong to the interior administration. Its highest superior is the Chief of the Secret State Police.
Art. 6
The head of the Secret State Police office will represent the Deputy Chief of the Secret State Police in all official business functions.
Art. 7
The Secret State Police office may, within the framework of responsibility resting upon the Secret State Police, make requests to the heads of provincial and county governments [Ober—und Regierungspraesidenten], as well as to all police agencies. The heads of the provincial and county governments have to obey the instructions of the Secret State Police office with respect to affairs concerning the Secret State Police.
Art. 8
(1) The State Police offices are located at the seat of the government. The chief of the Secret State Police can, in agreement with the Minister of Interior, make exceptions from this principle.
(2) An index of the State Police offices is added in the appendix.
Art. 9
(1) The heads of the State Police offices and political specialists [Sachbearbeiter] of the provincial governors will be determined by the Chief of the Secret State Police in agreement with the Minister of the Interior.
(2) In case the head of the State Police Office is prevented from doing so, the functions of the political specialist of the provincial governor will be taken care of by the official who is destined as permanent deputy of the head of the State Police Office. He will be designated by the Chief of the Secret State Police in agreement with the Minister of Interior.
Art. 10
The State Police offices may make their requests to all police authorities of their district. In counties, the request has, as a matter of principle to be directed to the County Governor [Landrat]; in the urgent cases it will suffice to inform the County Council. The reports of the authorities subordinated to the County Governor have to be sent to the State Police offices through the County Council; in urgent cases it will suffice to inform the County Council at the same time.
Art. 11
The authorities of the County Police have to report directly to the responsible state police office on all important political occurrences and observations.
Art. 12
Insofar as officials of the Secret State Police within the framework of the authority of the Secret State Police, take over the tasks incumbent upon the authorities and officials of the police—and security services according to the regulations of the code for criminal proceedings, they are acting as auxiliary officials of the Chief Prosecutor of the Reich [Oberreichsanwalt] or of the State Prosecutor for the District Court [Oberstaatsanwalt] who is locally responsible.
Art. 13
The Chief of the Secret State Police disposes of the funds set aside for the Secret State Police in the budget of the interior administration.
Art. 14
The Ministerialblatt of the Reich—and Prussian Ministry of the Interior is the official gazette for the Chief and Deputy Chief of the Secret State Police.
Art. 15
This decree will be effective on the day after its publication.
Berlin, 10 February 1936
The Prussian Prime Minister GOERING
The Reich—and Prussian Minister of the Interior FRICK
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2111-PS
1941 VERORDNUNGSBLATT, PAGE 190
Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories concerning the Establishment of Administrative Courts Martial
Pursuant to Section 5 of the decree of the Fuehrer concerning the exercise of governmental authority in the Netherlands, of May 18, 1940 (RGBl I, p. 778) I hereby order as follows:
Section 1
(1) The Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands territories may, if he shall deem it necessary for the maintenance or restoration of public order and security, establish administrative courts martial for these territories or for certain areas within these territories.
(2) The establishment of administrative courts martial shall become effective as soon as it is announced. Such announcement shall be made by posters along public roads, streets and squares, by radio, by the press, or according to local custom. The abolition of administrative courts martial shall be made public the same manner.
(3) Simultaneously with the establishment of administrative courts martial, shall be decreed that everyone shall refrain from all activities which might disturb or endanger public order and security, and that everyone must comply with special orders issued by the Reich Commissioner, in which he shall make particular reference to the strictness of the administrative courts martial. Any person acting contrary hereto shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the administrative courts martial.
Section 2
Unless the Reich Commissioner shall order otherwise, the provisions of Sections 3 to 8 shall be effective for the areas in which administrative courts martial have been established, so long as these courts are maintained.
Section 3
(1) The Higher S.S. and the Police Leader shall take all measures deemed necessary by him for the maintenance or restoration of public order and security.
(2) He may promulgate rules and regulations, having the force and effect of laws, which are necessary for the fulfillment of his functions. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 7, such rules and regulations may contain penal clauses subjecting a defendant to fines of unlimited amount, imprisonment or jail. They shall be published in accordance with the provisions of Section 1, paragraph 2, sentence 2.
(3) In the fulfillment of his duties, the Higher S.S. and the Police Leader may deviate from existing law.
Section 4
(1) The Reich Commissioner shall appoint a Special Agent for the entire area for which an administrative court martial has been decreed.
(2) The Special Agent shall be the head of the entire public administration, excluding the police administration, unless the Higher S.S. and the Police Leader assumes administrative tasks in accordance with Section 3, paragraph 1.
(3) The Special Agent shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the fulfillment of his functions. Notwithstanding the provisions contained in Section 7, they may contain penal clauses subjecting a defendant to fines of unlimited amount, imprisonment, or jail. They shall be published in accordance with the provisions of Section 1, paragraph 2, sentence 2.
(4) In the fulfillment of his duties, the Special Agent may deviate from existing law.
(5) The Reich Commissioner shall have the right to appoint Special Agents, even for certain parts of the area in which administrative courts martial have been established.
Section 5
The activities of all public representative committees which made decisions as a body, shall be suspended. Their powers and duties shall be transferred to the chief administrative authority concerned with the subject matter (for example, commissioner of the province, major, overseer of dikes, etc.).
Section 6
The validity of regulations issued by the Secretaries General in the Netherlands Ministries in accordance with Section 3, paragraph 2, sentence 2, of Order No. 3/1940, or by virtue of Order No. 23/1940, shall be dependent upon prior consent by the Special Agent (Section 4).
Section 7
Any person shall be subject to court martial who, after the establishment of an administrative court martial, shall intentionally participate in activities likely to disturb or to endanger public order and security, or who intentionally violates special orders of the Reich Commissioner issued in accordance with Section 1, paragraph 3. Such person shall be punishable by death or, in less serious cases, by hard labor either for life or for a period of not less than ten years.
Section 8
(1) The German Superior Court shall operate as a court martial in accordance with the procedure established in the Old Reich for proceedings before Special Courts.
(2) The provisions regarding judicial procedure for the German Armed Forces and the jurisdiction of Special Courts in criminal cases concerning members of the S.S. and of the police forces assigned to special duty, shall not be affected by this order; Section 11 of Order No. 52/1940, regarding the possibility of referring certain criminal cases to the jurisdiction of Special Courts, shall likewise remain unaffected.
(3) The judges of the court martial shall be appointed by the Reich Commissioner. The Court Martial shall be considered lawfully constituted even if only one judge has the educational qualifications required for judicial tenure.
(4) Death sentences shall be executed by shooting.
Section 9
This order becomes effective on the day of publication.
The Hague, March 19, 1941
SEYSS-INQUART
Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories. 2 7 2
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2112-PS
1941 VERORDNUNGSBLATT, PAGE 655
Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories concerning Jewish Real Estate—11 August 1941
By virtue of article 5 of the decree of the Fuehrer concerning the exercise of Governmental authority in the Netherlands, of May 18, 1940 (RGBl I, p. 778) I order as follows:
Part I
DEFINITION
Section 1
(1) Jewish real estate, as defined in this order is any real estate which belongs in whole or in part:
1. To a Jew, as defined in Section 4 of Order No. 189/1940, concerning the registration of enterprises;
2. To an enterprise which is required to register by virtue of Order No. 189/1940;
3. To a private corporation, an association, an institution, a foundation or any other endowment, if one of the conditions of Section 2 of Order No. 189/1940 is fulfilled, although the organization in question is not an enterprise within the meaning of that order.
(2) Jewish real estate for the purpose of this order is, further, any right in real estate, as well as any mortgage, to which a person, an enterprise, an association, an institution, a foundation or any other endowment, as defined in paragraph (1), is entitled in its entirety or in part.
(3) The owner or beneficiary, for the purpose of this order, is the holder of title to the property, the possessor of a right in the real estate, or the mortgage creditor.
Section 2
The provisions of this order shall not apply to real estate covered by the provisions of Order No. 102/1941, concerning the registration and treatment of agricultural real estate in Jewish hands (Order for the Exclusion of Jews from Agriculture).
Part II
REQUIREMENT OF REGISTRATION
Section 3
(1) Jewish real estate must be registered in writing with the Netherlands Real Estate Administration, The Hague, Juliana van Stolberglaan 45, by the use of a form which may be obtained from the Chambers of Industry and Commerce.
(2) Registration must be made before September 15, 1941. Any real estate acquired only after this order has become effective, must be registered within one month after such acquisition.
(3) The owner or beneficiary of real estate must register it. Any person who is entitled to represent the owner or beneficiary, or who is entitled to administrate such real estate, must also register it.
Section 4
(1) A person required to register must fill out the registration form completely and truthfully.
(2) Copies of the following documents must be filed with registration form, if they are in the possession of the person registering:
1. Excerpts from the Land-Register and the Mortgage-Register;
2. Contracts of sale and other documents concerning the acquisition of the real estate;
3. Contracts of lease or tenancy, or other documents showing an existing use.
(3) The Netherlands Real Estate Administration is empowered to require further information and the production of books, vouchers, and any other documents.
Section 5
(1) Every parcel of real estate, every right in real estate and every mortgage which on or before May 9, 1940, belonged to a person, an enterprise, an association, an institution, a foundation or any other endowment, as defined in Section 1, paragraph 1, or to which such person, enterprise, association, institution, foundation or other endowment was entitled, and which, before this order has become effective, has been transferred to any other person, must likewise be registered.
(2) The owner or beneficiary as defined in paragraph 1, and his representative, as well as his immediate successor in title and the representative of the latter, are required to perform this registration.
(3) Registration must be filed in writing before September 15, 1941, with the Netherlands Real Estate Administration. The registration must be accompanied by excerpts from the Land-Register and the Mortgage-Register, as well as by the contracts of sale and other documents concerning the legal transfer to which reference was made in paragraph 1. Section 4, paragraph 3, shall not be applicable.
Section 6
The registration requirements shall not apply to real estate:
1. Which has been registered pursuant to Order No. 26/1940, concerning the handling of enemy property;
2. Which belongs or did belong to an association or foundation which has been registered by virtue of Order No. 145/1940, concerning the registration of non-commercial associations and endowments;
3. Which has been reported in the registration of an enterprise, pursuant to Section 6 of Order No. 189/1940.
Part III
ADMINISTRATION
Section 7
(1) The Netherlands Real Estate Administration shall be empowered to take over Jewish real estate for administration.
(2) It shall be empowered to appoint third persons for such administration.
Section 8
(1) As soon as real estate has been taken over for administration, the Netherlands Real Estate Administration shall be empowered to execute all transactions, by court procedure or otherwise, which are necessary in the regular course of administration; it may alienate real estate in its entirety or in part, and may also mortgage it. The Netherlands Real Estate Administration shall be empowered to transfer these powers in their entirety or in part to the persons whom it has appointed for the administration of the real estate.
(2) Dispositions by the owner or beneficiary of the real estate shall be void during the period in which such real estate is being administered by the Netherlands Real Estate Administration. During such period payments by a mortgage debtor to the owner or beneficiary shall have no releasing effect.
Section 9
(1) The taking over of administration by the Netherlands Real Estate Administration shall be recorded in the public register without payment of a fee.
(2) It shall become legally effective on the date on which the request for recording was received by the agency competent to keep the register.
Part IV
PERMISSIONS
Section 10
(1) Persons, enterprises, associations, institutions, foundations or other endowments, as defined in Section 1, paragraph 1, may acquire real estate by legal transfer, only with the permission of the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands Territories (Commissioner General for Finance and Economic Affairs).
(2) Acquisition at an execution sale shall also be considered acquisition by legal transfer.
Section 11
(1) Jewish real estate can be alienated, mortgaged, leased, or made subject to other changes in ownership or possession, in part or in its entirety, only with the permission of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories (Commissioner General for Finance and Economic Affairs); mortgages in particular can be paid off entirely or in part only with such permission.
(2) Paragraph 1 shall not apply, if real estate:
1. Is being administered by the Netherlands Real Estate Administration;
2. Is being administered by an administrator appointed pursuant to Order No. 26/1940;
3. Is being administered by a trustee appointed pursuant to Order No. 48/1941 (Order concerning the Exclusion of Jews from Economic Affairs);
4. Belongs to an association or foundation registered pursuant to Order No. 145/1940.
(3) The incurring of an obligation to execute any of the legal acts mentioned in paragraph 1, sentence 1, is also subject to the granting of permission. If permission is granted to incur such obligation, said permission shall also extend to legal acts in performance of the obligation.
Section 12
The request for permission shall be made by the person who intends to conclude a contract subject to permission, or to carry out any legal act subject to such permission.
Section 13
The permission may be made dependent upon the fulfillment of certain conditions or may be connected with certain requirements.
Part V
COSTS
Section 14
(1) The procedure pursuant to this order may be subject to costs.
(2) Action on applications may be made dependent on advance payment of such costs in part or in their entirety.
Part VI
PROVISIONS
Section 15
(1) Any person who maliciously violates or circumvents the provisions of this order, or of any order, condition or requirement issued or made by virtue of this order, shall be subject to imprisonment or fine, unlimited as to the amount, or to both of these penalties.
(2) If the act has been committed negligently, the punishment shall be imprisonment not exceeding one year, or a fine not exceeding 100,000 guilders.
Section 16
(1) In addition to such penalty, the confiscation of the property to which the criminal act referred may be ordered.
(2) If no particular person can be prosecuted or convicted, confiscation may be ordered independently.
Section 17
(1) Prosecution shall be initiated only upon request of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories (Commissioner General of Finance and Economic Affairs).
(2) The request for prosecution can be withdrawn until sentence has been pronounced in the court of last resort.
Section 18
Acts punishable pursuant to Section 15 shall be considered criminal acts as defined in Section II, paragraph 2, of Order No. 52/1940, concerning German jurisdiction in Criminal Cases, as revised in Order No. 123/1941.
Section 19
(1) Property involved in the punishable act pursuant to Section 15 may also be confiscated by administrative procedure.
(2) In this case, confiscation takes place upon order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories (Commissioner General for Security); it becomes effective upon general publication or upon notice to the person concerned. If such confiscation involves property or rights which by virtue of a legal provision have been recorded in a public register, such confiscation shall be immediately recorded free of cost in such register, upon request of the Reich Commissioner (Commissioner General for Security).
(3) The Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories (Commissioner General for Finances and Economic Affairs) shall decide as to the disposition of confiscated property.
Part VII
FINAL PROVISIONS
Section 20
(1) The Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories (Commissioner General for Finance and Economic Affairs) shall carry out all measures necessary for the enforcement of this order. He is authorized to delegate his powers.
(2) The Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories (Commissioner General for Finance and Economic Affairs) shall have general power to make legally binding final decisions, in doubtful cases arising from the application of the provisions of this order.
Section 21
This order shall become effective on the day of publication.
THE HAGUE August 11, 1941
Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories SEYSS-INQUART
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2113-PS
1934 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, PAGE 143
Secret State Police Department Decree for Application of the Law of 30 November 1933, Concerning the Secret State Police of 8 March 1934
ARTICLE 1
(1) The tasks of the Secret State Police will be effected
a. by the Secret State Police Department in Berlin (Art. 1 of the law of the 26th April 1933—L.R. p. 122) for the entire State territory,
b. by the State Police Offices for the Provincial Police Districts [Landes Polizei Bezirke].
(2) The “Inspecteur” (Head of the Police) conducts the general supervision of the State Police Offices, on the order and according to the instructions of the “Ministerpraesident” (Chief of the Secret State Police).
(3) In so far as the Minister President does not otherwise order, the State Police Offices are subordinate to the Regional President and in Berlin to the Police President with whom they are in immediate working connection. The control of the State Police Offices will be effected by officials to be designated by the Minister President.
(4) In places where there is no State Police Office, subsidiary offices can be established on the proposal of the “Inspecteur”.
(5) The competence of the State Police Offices will cover
a. matters limited in their inferences to the Provincial Police Districts,
b. matters assigned to them by the “Inspecteur” of the Secret State Police without regard to the limitations of the Provincial Police District.
(6) The local or district police matters within the sphere of the Secret State Police will be conducted at the seat of the State Police Office by the latter, in places where there are subsidiary offices of the State Police by these, and for the rest by the Local and District Police authorities as auxiliaries to the Secret State Police.
ARTICLE 2
The receipts and expenditure of the Secret State Police will be treated separately in the Budget of the Ministry of the Interior. The task of the preparation of the Budget and the disposition of these funds belong to the Minister President.
ARTICLE 3
(1) The officers of the Secret State Police are officials of the general internal Administration. On the request of the Minister President, they will be placed at the disposal of the Secret State Police by the Minister of the Interior. The appointments of the higher administrative officials of the Secret State Police and of the Superior officials of the Criminal Police, from the Criminal Commissar upwards, will be made by the Minister President and the appointments of the other officials will be made by the “Inspecteur”.
(2) The “Inspecteur” has disciplinary powers over the officials of the Secret State Police in accordance with Art. 16, Art. 17, para. 1, No. 2 of the Officers’ Disciplinary Code of the 27th January 1932 (L.R. p. 59).
ARTICLE 4
(1) Art. 2 of the Second Decree of Application of the 26th April 1933, by the Minister of the Interior (L.R. p. 126), to the Decree of the President of the Reich concerning the protection of the German People, dated 4th February 1933, is hereby abolished.
(2) Art. 1, of the Decree of the Minister of the Interior of the 26th April 1933 (L.R. p. 127) reads as follows:
“Article 1
Besides the Police President in Berlin, in his capacity as Provincial and District Police Authority (Art. 1 and 2 of the Decree of the 2nd March 1933—L.R. p. 33), the Secret State Police Department in Berlin is also competent for the prohibition of periodicals, for the imposition of restrictions on property, on personal liberty, and on the right of union and assembly, as well as limitations on letter, post, telegraph and telephone secrecy, in accordance with Art. 1 of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State of 28th February 1935 (Reichs Law Register p. 83).”
ARTICLE 5
Art. 2 of the Decree of the Minister of the Interior of the 2nd March 1933 (L.R. p. 33), concerning the supplement to the Decree of 1st October 1931 (L.R. p. 213), for the regulation of the competence of the Provincial and District Police Authorities, will be altered in such wise that, for the ordering of restrictions on personal freedom and the rights of union and assembly, as well as on limitations on letter, post and telegraph secrecy, the authorities of the Secret State Police (Art. 1, para. 1) shall also be competent, in so far as concerns their sphere of office, but that, for the regulation of restrictions on telephone secrecy, only the latter shall be competent.
ARTICLE 6
This Decree comes into force on the day of its proclamation.
THE PRUSSIAN MINISTER PRESIDENT.
Berlin, 8 March 1934
Goering.
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2115-PS
1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 710
Second Execution Order to the Law of the Hitler Youth (Youth Service Regulation) of 25 March 1939
On the basis of Article 4 of the law for the Hitler Youth of 1 December 1936 (RGBl I, page 993), I order:
Article 1
Length of Service
(1) Service in the Hitler Youth is honorary service to the German people.
(2) All juveniles from the 10th to the end of the 18th year of age are obliged to serve in the Hitler Youth, and namely:
1. Boys between the ages of 10 and 14 in the Junior Hitler Youth (DJ),
2. Boys between the ages of 14 and 18 in the Hitler Youth (HJ),
3. Girls between the ages of 10 and 14 in the Junior Hitler Youth (JM),
4. Girls between the ages of 14 and 18 in the German Girls League (BDM).
(3) Pupils of elementary schools, who have already completed their 10th year of age, are deferred from the service in the Hitler Youth until they leave the classes of the elementary schools.
(4) Pupils of elementary schools, who have already completed their 14th year of age, remain, until their discharge from school, members of the Junior Hitler Youth (DJ and JM).
Article 2
Educational Authority
All boys and girls of the Hitler Youth are subject to a public-legal educational authority according to the provisions of regulations, decreed by the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor.
Article 3
Unworthiness
(1) Those juveniles are unworthy of membership in the Hitler Youth, and thus are excluded from the community of the Hitler Youth, who
1. Commit dishonorable acts,
2. Were dismissed from the Hitler Youth, before this law came into effect, because of dishonorable acts,
3. Who cause offense by their moral behavior in the Hitler Youth or in public, and thus injure the Hitler Youth.
(2) Furthermore, juveniles are excluded from membership in the Hitler Youth, as long as they are in official custody.
(3) The youth leader of the German Reich can permit exceptions.
Article 4
Unfitness
(1) Juveniles, who have been found, in the opinion of a medical officer of the HJ or of a physician, commissioned by the HJ, to be unfit or only partially fit for service in the Hitler Youth, must be relieved altogether or partially from service in the Hitler Youth according to the medical decision.
(2) The cooperation between health offices and the execution of other hygienic measures will be regulated by the youth leaders of the German Reich in agreement with the Fuehrer’s Deputy and the Reich Minister of the Interior.
Article 5
Deferment and Exemption
(1) On request of the legal guardian or the HJ leader concerned, juveniles can in each case be deferred or exempted from service in the Hitler Youth up to the duration of one year, if they:
1. Are retarded considerably in their physical development,
2. In the judgment of the school principal cannot fulfill the demands of school without the exemption.
(2) In individual cases, a request for deferment or exemption from service in the Hitler Youth can also be granted, when the conditions of Part 1 do not exist, but if there are other urgent reasons, which justify the temporary or permanent absence of a juvenile from service in the Hitler Youth.
(3) The youth leader of the German Reich will issue further regulations.
Article 6
German Subjects of non-German National Origin
(1) Juveniles of German citizenship, whose both parents or father belong according to their own statement to the Danish or Polish ethnic groups, are to be exempted from membership in the Hitler Youth on request of those who are charged with their care. If several persons have the right and duty to care for the juvenile person, and not everyone of them makes the request, the juvenile may be exempted. Illegitimate juveniles may be exempted from membership in the Hitler Youth on request of those who are charged with their care, if the mother belongs according to her own statement to the Danish or Polish racial groups; they are to be exempted if the guardian agrees to the request.
(2) The request is to be made to the lower administrative authorities. The higher administrative authority will investigate whether there is an acknowledgment of membership in the Danish or Polish ethnic group. More specific administrative rules will be issued by the Reich Minister of the Interior in agreement with the youth leader of the German Reich.
(3) The Reich Minister of the Interior exercises the supervision over youth organizations of the Danish or Polish ethnic groups. New foundations need his permission.
(4) No compulsion may be exercised by anyone toward the joining of a youth organization of the Danish or Polish ethnic groups.
Article 7
Racial Requirements
Jews (Article 5 of the 1st proclamation to the law of Reich citizenship of 14 November 1935, RGBl I, page 1333) are excluded from the membership of the Hitler Youth.
Article 8
German Subjects residing Abroad
Juveniles of German citizenship, who reside abroad, and who are only temporarily in the German Reich, are not obliged to serve in the Hitler Youth.
Article 9
Registration and Induction
(1) All juveniles are to be registered with the respective Hitler Youth, leader for induction into the Hitler Youth before 15 March of the calendar year during which they complete their 10th year of age. If a juvenile fulfills the conditions for acceptance into the Hitler Youth (for instance release from official custody, receipt of citizenship, permanent residence in the German Reich) after this time, the juvenile is to be registered within one month after fulfillment of the conditions named.
(2) The legal representative of the juvenile is liable for the registration.
(3) Induction into the Hitler Youth takes place on 20 April of every year.
(4) The youth leader of the German Reich will issue more specific regulations about registration and induction into the Hitler Youth.
Article 10
Discharge
(1) The following will be discharged from the Hitler Youth:
1. Juveniles after the expiration of the period, fixed in Article 1, and girls who marry,
2. Juveniles concerning whom it is established that they are excluded from membership in the community of the Hitler Youth according to the regulations of this law.
(2) Article 3, part 3 apply accordingly to No. 2 and 3.
(3) Male and female leaders remain members of the Hitler Youth after the period fixed in Article 1 has expired. Their discharge will take place by special regulations. They are to be discharged on their request.
Article 11
Leaves during Membership in the Hitler Youth
(1) The membership in the Hitler Youth becomes inactive for the duration of active military service.
(2) Members of the Reich labor service may not be active in the service of the Hitler Youth.
Article 12
Punitive Regulation
(1) A legal guardian will be punished with a fine up to 150 marks or with confinement if he intentionally acts against the provisions of Article 9 of this law.
(2) Whoever malevolently prevents or attempts to prevent a juvenile from serving in the Hitler Youth, will be punished with prison and fine, or with one of these punishments.
(3) Legal punitive action will only be taken on request of the youth leader of the German Reich. The request can be withdrawn.
(4) Juveniles can be forced by the respective local authorities, to fulfill the duties with which they are charged on the basis of this law, and of the implementative regulations issued for it.
Article 13
Final Regulations
For juveniles of the age classes 1921 to 1929, who have not belonged to the Hitler Youth up to now, the youth leader of the German Reich will fix the time of their registration and induction into the Hitler Youth.
Berlin, 25 March 1939
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Deputy of the Fuehrer R. Hess The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers
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1941 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 547
Police Decree on Identification of Jews 1 September 1941
In agreement with the Reichs-Protector for Bohemia and Moravia the following law based on the regulations regarding the Police-decrees of the Ministers of the Reich from 14 November 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, page 1582) and on the decree regarding the right of establishing of law [Rechtsetzungsrecht] in the protectorate Bohemia and Moravia from 7 June 1939 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, page 1039) is herewith published:
Article 1
(1) Jews (article 5 of the first decree regarding the law on German citizenship of 14 November 1935—Reichsgesetzblatt I, page 1333) who have completed their sixth year of life shall be prohibited to appear in public without wearing a Jewish star.
(2) The Jewish star is a yellow piece of cloth with a black border, in the form of a six pointed star of the size of a hand with the inscription “Jew”. It shall be worn visible, sewed on the left side of the chest of the garment.
Article 2
Jews are prohibited to:
a. leave the area of the community in which they live without written permission of the local police;
b. to wear medals, ribbons and other insignia.
Article 3
Article 1 & 2 shall not apply to:
a. a husband living in a Jewish mixed marriage if children, born from this marriage who are not considered as Jews exist. This also applies if the marriage is dissolved or if the only son was killed in the present war.
b. to a Jewish wife in a childless mixed marriage, for the duration of the marriage.
Article 4
(1) He who violates articles 1 & 2 willingly or carelessly shall be punished with a fine up to 150 Reichsmark or with imprisonment not to exceed 6 weeks.
(2) Further protective measures on the part of the police as well as rules according to which a more severe punishment is permitted remain unaffected.
Article 5
This decree shall also be valid within the borders of the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia with the specifications that the Reichs-Protector in Bohemia and Moravia shall adopt the rules of article 2 a, to the local situation in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Article 6
This Police-law shall be valid two weeks after publication.
Berlin, 1 September 1941.
For the Reich Minister of the Interior. Heydrich
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1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 485
Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor concerning the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, March 16, 1939
The Bohemian-Moravian countries belonged for a millennium to the living space of the German people. Violence and want of judgment have torn them arbitrarily from their old, historic environment and finally created, through their inclusion in the artificial structure of Czechoslovakia, a center of continuous unrest. Year after year the danger increased that out of this area—as once before in the past—would arise a new, stupendous menace to European peace. For the Czechoslovak State and its rulers had not succeeded in organizing in a reasonable manner the coexistence of the national groups arbitrarily comprised within it, and thus they failed to awaken and to preserve the interest of all concerned in the maintenance of the state common to them. Thereby this state has demonstrated its inherent inability to exist and therefore now has fallen into actual dissolution.
The German Reich cannot tolerate everlasting disturbances in these areas, areas so decisively essential not only to its own peace and security but also to the general welfare and the general peace. Sooner or later the German Reich would have had to suffer the most serious consequences because it is the power which is the most vitally interested and concerned by history as well as by geographical position. It is therefore only an act of compliance with the law of self-preservation if the German Reich is resolved to take decisive action for the reestablishment of the foundations of a Central European Order based on reason and to resort to measures impelled by this aim. For the millennial this historic past of the German Reich has proven that it alone is chosen by virtue of its greatness and the qualities of the German people to solve this problem.
Imbued with the earnest desire to serve the true interests of the nations settled in this living space, to safeguard the national life of the German and Czech nations, to promote peace and the social welfare of all, I therefore order, in the name of the German Reich, the following as foundations on which the inhabitants of these areas can live side by side in the future:
Article 1. (1) The territories of the erstwhile Czechoslovak Republic, occupied by the German Armies in March, 1939, are hereby incorporated into the territory of the Greater German Reich and are placed under its protection as the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.”
(2) In so far as the defense of the Reich requires it, the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor may issue, for specified areas of these territories, orders at variance with these articles.
Article 2. (1) The residents of the Protectorate of German origin are hereby declared to be German nationals and German citizens, in accordance with the provisions of the Reich Nationality Code [Reichsburgergesetz] of September 15, 1935 (RGBl I, p. 1146). Therefore, the provisions for the protection of German blood and German honor shall apply to them. They shall be subject to the jurisdiction of German courts.
(2) The other residents of Bohemia and Moravia are hereby declared to be citizens of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Article 3. (1) The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is declared to be autonomous and shall govern itself.
(2) It shall exercise the sovereign rights to which it is entitled within the framework of the Protectorate in conformity with the political, military, and economic interests of the Reich.
(3) The Protectorate shall exercise these sovereign rights through its own political agencies, authorities, and officials.
Article 4. The head of the autonomous administration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia shall be entitled to the protection and the full honors of the head of a sovereign government. The head of the Protectorate must enjoy, in the exercise of his high office, the confidence of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor.
Article 5. (1) The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor will appoint as a guardian of the interests of the Reich a “Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.” His official residence shall be in Prague.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Reich Protector, as representative of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor and as the agent of the Government of the Reich, to assure compliance with the political instructions issued by the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor.
(3) The members of the government of the Protectorate shall hold office subject to confirmation of the Reich Protector. A confirmation may be later revoked.
(4) The Reich Protector may demand information concerning all acts of the government of the Protectorate and may offer his counsel to the government. He may protest against measures which may be harmful to the Reich, and, in cases of emergency, may take all steps necessary to the common welfare.
(5) The publication of statutes, orders, and other general rules and regulations, and the enforcement of administrative measures and execution of judicial decisions which have become final, shall be suspended upon notice of protest given by the Reich Protector.
Article 6. (1) The foreign affairs of the Protectorate, especially the protection of its citizens abroad, shall be entrusted to the Reich. The Reich shall take charge of the foreign affairs in such a manner as shall conform with the common interest of both countries.
(2) The Protectorate shall have a representative with the Government of the Reich officially designated as Minister.
Article 7. (1) The Reich shall extend military protection to the Protectorate.
(2) For the purpose of extending such protection the Reich shall maintain garrisons and military establishments in the Protectorate.
(3) The Protectorate may establish its own units for the maintenance of home security and protection. The Government of the Reich shall determine the form of organization, the number of the forces, and the armament to be employed.
Article 8. The Reich shall directly supervise all traffic, posts, and telegraphs.
Article 9. The Protectorate shall form part of the German customs area and shall be subject to its customs authority.
Article 10. (1) In addition to the Reichsmark the Krone shall constitute legal tender until further notice.
(2) The rate of exchange for the two currencies shall be determined by the government of the Reich.
Article 11. (1) The Reich may issue orders having the force of statutes for the Protectorate, in so far as required by the common welfare of both of them.
(2) In so far as there is a common need, the Reich may take over branches of the administrative services and may establish the necessary Reich agencies in their stead.
(3) The Government of the Reich may take all measures necessary for the maintenance of security and order.
Article 12. The laws and statutes presently in effect in Bohemia and Moravia shall remain in effect unless incompatible with the purposes of protection by the German Reich.
Article 13. The Reich Minister of the Interior shall, in agreement with the Reich ministers concerned, issue all rules and regulations, general and administrative, required for the enforcement and implementation of this decree.
Prague, March 16, 1939.
Adolf Hitler, Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Frick, Reich Minister of the Interior von Ribbentrop, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Lammers, Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
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1938 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 1342
Law on Passports of Jews on 5 October 1938
Based on the law on passport, alien police and registration affairs as well as on identification affairs of 11 May 1934 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, Page 589) the following is ordered in agreement with the Reich Minister of Justice:
Article 1
(1) All German passports of Jews (Article 5 of the first law to the Reich citizenship of 14 November 1935—Reichsgesetzblatt I Page 1333), who reside in the Reich area, become invalid.
(2) The holders of the passports, mentioned in Section (1), are obliged to hand in these passports to the passport authority within Germany, in whose district the holder of the passport has his permanent residence or in lieu of such sojourns temporarily, within 2 weeks after this law becomes effective. For Jews who are staying abroad at the time of publication of this law, this period of two weeks begins with the day of their re-entry into the Reich area.
(3) The passports, made out to be valid abroad, will become valid again if they are marked with a sign designated by the Reich Minister of the Interior, which will mark the holder as a Jew.
Article 2
Whoever carelessly or willfully does not comply with the obligation described in article 1, section 2 will be punished with prison and fined up to 150 marks or with either one of them.
Article 3
The law becomes effective with its promulgation.
Berlin, 5 October 1938.
The Reich Minister of the Interior By order Dr. Best.
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1938 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 594
Decree Introducing the Nurnberg Racial Laws into the Land of Austria 20 May 1938
Pursuant to Article II of the law relating to the reunion of Austria with the German Reich, 13 March 1938 (Reichsgesetz Bl. I, p. 237), the following is ordered:
ARTICLE I
LAW RELATING TO CITIZENSHIP OF THE REICH
Section 1
The following are applicable to the Land of Austria:
1. The Law Relating to Citizenship of the Reich of 15 September 1935 (Reichsgesetz Bl. I, p. 1146).
2. Section 2, Sub-Section 2, Section 4, Sub-Sections 1, 3 and 4, Sections 5 and 6, Sub-Section 1, and Section 7 of the First Decree under the Law Relating to Citizenship of the Reich of 14 November 1935 (Reichsgesetz Bl. I, p. 1333).
Section 2
The effective date of Section 1, Sub-Section 2, of the Reich Citizenship Law will be determined by the Reich Minister of the Interior.
Section 3
The elimination of Jews from public offices which they hold on the effective date of this decree will be specially regulated.
Section 4
For the application of Section 5, Sub-Section 2, of the First Decree under the Reich Citizenship Law, 16 September 1935 will be considered the effective date of the Reich Citizenship Law in Austria also, and 17 September 1935 will be considered the day on which the law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor came into effect.
ARTICLE II
THE LAW FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE BLOOD
Section 5
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor of 15 September 1935 (Reichsgesetz Bl. I, p. 1146) and the First Decree for the implementation of this Law of 14 November 1935 (Reichsgesetz Bl. I, p. 1334) are applicable to the Land of Austria.
Section 6
Section 3 of the Law for the Protection of the Blood will become effective on 1 August 1938.
Section 7
For the application of Section 12, paragraph 3, of the First Decree for the implementation of the Law for the Protection of the Blood, the 16 September 1935 is also to be considered the effective date of the Law for the Protection of the Blood in Austria.
Section 8
1. A marriage cannot be entered into unless it is proved by the testimony of the local Burgermeister of the bride’s permanent residence that there is no obstacle to the marriage according to the provisions of the Law for the Protection of the Blood and of the First Decree for the implementation of this law. If the bride has no permanent residence in Austria, the competence of the Burgermeister is determined by the further Provisions of Section 3 of the General Administrative Procedure Law (Austrian BG. BL. #274/1925).
2. If the Burgermeister has any doubt about the existence of a marriage obstacle in the sense of Section 6 of the First Decree for the implementation of the Law for the Protection of the Blood, he must demand a Marriage Fitness Certificate from the bride and groom of the official physician.
Section 9
In the application of Section 15, sentence 2, of the First Decree for the implementation of the Law for the Protection of the Blood, the former possession of Austrian citizenship is equivalent to the former possession of German citizenship.
ARTICLE III
PROCEDURE REGULATIONS
Section 10
In annulment proceedings, the provisions of the Austrian Law relating to the jurisdiction and the procedure of the courts in lawsuits relating to the annulment of marriages are applicable, subject to the following limitations:
1. The suit is to be made against both spouses. If the public prosecutor or one of the spouses files an appeal, then in the first case both spouses and in the second case the public prosecutor and the other spouse are to be considered as adverse parties.
2. The regulations relating to compulsory representation by counsel are not applicable to the public prosecutor.
3. If the public prosecutor is defeated, the Treasury is obliged to refund the expenses incurred by the spouses, according to Sections 40 et seq., of the Austrian Civil Law.
4. No counsel for the defense of the marriage bond will be appointed.
5. The suit can only be filed, if both spouses are alive. If one of the spouses should die before the sentence is executed, the case is to be considered in the main as closed.
Section 11
The court of first instance has jurisdiction over violations of Section 5, Sub-Sections 1 and 2, of the Law for the Protection of the Blood.
ARTICLE IV
CONCLUDING PROVISIONS
Section 12
If regulations introduced into Austria by this decree cannot be applied according to the letter, they are to be applied according to the spirit.
Section 13
This decree comes into effect on the day after its promulgation.
Berlin, 20 May 1938.
The Reichsminister of the Interior Frick The Deputy of the Fuehrer Hess The Reich Minister for Justice per Dr. Schlegelberger.
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SECRET
[STAMP:] German Armistice Delegation 14 December 1942 Del. W. 7903 Berlin, 11 December 1942
Foreign Office, No. Ha Pol 7563 g
The enclosed statement of the Reichsbank, Department for National Economy [Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung], of the capability of France is submitted for your information.
To this the Reichsbank remarks as follows:
“The statement deals solely with the effect of an increase of the occupation expenses through levying on the French budget in regard to economy and currency.
“It is an entirely different question, however, how to act in practice in the face of the imperative military necessities.
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“The Armed Forces’ money requirements must be supplied in any case—either through the budget of the French Government or in the form of an advance from the issuing bank or in any other form of financing; otherwise it would be necessary to issue Reich Credit Bills [Reichskredit Kassenscheine], which is undesirable.”
To:
The German Armistice Delegation for Economy in Paris
per (signed:) DUMONT [pencil notation:]
The German Embassy in Paris
Occup. SECRET
—each separate—
Copy to be attached to Ha Pol. 7563/42 g
Berlin, 7, December 1942
SECRET:
German Reichsbank
Department for National Economy
Concerning the question of an increase of French contributions to the Occupation expenses.
Altogether the burden for France hitherto as an effect of the Armistice is nearly 18.5 billion marks or 370 billion francs.
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France therefore has transferred the greatest part of her payments (17.6 billion marks) in the form of goods and labor.
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Anyhow the conclusion is obvious that the French National Economy has been taxed more heavily since the Armistice in June 1940 than Germany was after the World War.
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Since the French contributions for the occupation expenses could not be covered by taxes, they had to be financed in part from the proceeds of the issuing of treasury bills, but mostly by credit from the bank of issue.
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Whether the economic exploitation of France could be intensified by raising the daily contributions to the occupation expenses from 15 to 25 million marks for the rest of the War seems to us—as far as we can judge from here—rather doubtful for the following reasons:
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Under these circumstances the French Government would be obliged to utilize the credit of the bank of issue to still greater extent than hitherto in order to finance the demands for increased occupation expenses.
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Inflationary rises in prices and wages in France would cause very grave disadvantages for Germany.
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Such a measure also seems very problematical in regard to the goods [gueterseite] in French national economy.
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With the loss of a large part of French imports, industrial production as well as the capacity of France to supply us with food will have to be further reduced in the future. Such a great weakening of French economic power is to be reckoned with that it does not seem to make much sense to raise the expenses of the occupation.
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An increase in French contributions to the occupation expenses could be advocated, however, only if there were a corresponding chance of raising her production ability [Sachleistungen].
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NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY CORRESPONDENCE
NSK No. 358
30 March 1933
Defeat the Enemy of the World!
By Julius Streicher, head of the Central Committee for defense against Jewish horror and boycott agitation.
All Judah wanted the battle, it shall have it! It shall have it until it realizes that the Germany of the Brown Battalions is not the Germany of cowardice and of surrender: All Judah shall have the battle until victory is ours.
National Socialists!
Defeat the enemy of the World! And if the World were full of devils, we must still succeed!
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NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY CORRESPONDENCE
NSK No. 359
31 March 1933
Additional orders of the Central Committee for defense against Jewish horror and boycott agitation.
NSK. The following additional orders are issued by the Central Committee for defense against Jewish horror and boycott agitation:
Order No. 3
In enforcing the defensive boycott, the closing of Jewish business or the use of violence against their customers is to be avoided under all circumstances.
If such an establishment closes its doors voluntarily, no higher power is involved, and the proprietors have no excuse for discharges without notice or for the refusal to pay wages and salaries or for reductions.
Order No. 4
Numerous reports are received by the Central Committee saying that Jewish proprietors are transferring their establishments to German figureheads in order to avoid the effects of the defensive propaganda.
Therefore it is decreed that: Establishments transferred to German figureheads by the Jewish proprietors after 28 March 1933 will be considered as Jewish establishments for the duration of the defensive boycott.
Signed: Streicher
Order No. 5
Concerning the defensive action against the Jewish horror and boycott agitation beginning Saturday, 1 April at 10 AM, the local action committees are again reminded to see to it most strictly:
1. That any use of force is to be avoided, establishments cannot be closed by the committee or by its agents. On the other hand, closing by the proprietor himself is not to be prevented.
Entering of Jewish establishments is strictly forbidden to SA or SS members or other agents of the action committee.
The only duty of the defensive guards is to inform the public that the proprietor of the establishment is a Jew.
2. That boycotting of establishments is refrained from if it has not been definitely proved that the proprietor is a Jew.
3. That provocateurs cause no property damage which is counter to the purpose of the defensive action.
4. That the action committee be kept informed of all details of the course of the defensive action by the SA and SS controllers so as to be constantly well posted.
5. Posters with provocative contents are forbidden.
Central Committee for defense against the Jewish horror and boycott agitation. Streicher.
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NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY CORRESPONDENCE
NSK No. 357
29 March 1933
The central committee for defense against Jewish horror and boycott agitation
NSK. The central committee for defense against Jewish horror and boycott agitation announces:
Julius Streicher, member of the Reichstag, commissioned with the task of creating and directing the central committee for defense against Jewish horror and boycott agitation, began his work on Wednesday, 29 March. As presiding deputy of the central committee he appointed Karl HOLZ (Nurnberg), the editor of the anti-Semitic weekly “Der Stuermer”. The other members of the central committee are: