(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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2084-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2088-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2089-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2090-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2091-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2092-PS
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
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2093-PS
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.
* * * * * * *
Berlin, 12 July 1934.
The Reichminister of the Interior
Frick
The Reich Forester
Goering
The Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture
R. Walther Darre
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2094-PS
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
* * * * * * *
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2095-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2097-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2098-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2099-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2100-PS
1942 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 35
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2101-PS
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
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2102-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2103-PS
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.
* * * * * * *
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2118-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2119-PS
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
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2120-PS
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.
* * * * * * *
“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
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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.
* * * * * * *
France therefore has transferred the greatest part of her payments
(17.6 billion marks) in the form of goods and labor.
* * * * * * *
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.
* * * * * * *
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.
* * * * * * *
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:
* * * * * * *
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.
* * * * * * *
Inflationary rises in prices and wages in France would cause very grave
disadvantages for Germany.
* * * * * * *
Such a measure also seems very problematical in regard to the goods
[gueterseite] in French national economy.
* * * * * * *
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.