Note 233 — V. EVIDENCE CONCERNING PRINCIPAL ISSUES IN THE CASE (continued 3)

Concerning the purpose of the extraordinary objection, the defendant Schlegelberger stated the following in a letter to Hitler on 6 May 1942: “In order to accelerate the setting aside of such decisions [judgments not accomplishing the unrelenting punishment of criminals], you, my Fuehrer, created the extraordinary objection to the Reich Supreme Court. With the help of this legal resource the judgment against Schlitt, which you mentioned in the session of the Reichstag, was quashed within 10 days by sentence of the Reich Supreme Court. Schlitt was sentenced to death and executed at once.” (See Doc. NG-102, Pros. Ex. 75, reproduced in sec. V C 2 a.)