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Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945

Documentation of the Reichsministerium der Justiz (Reich Ministry of Justice), Germany, 1933-1945 In the years 1933-1935, the Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority in the judicial system in Germany, and as such assumed management of the system. Upon the seizure of control by the Nazis, Franz Guertner, who had been appointed to the position of Reich Justice Minister in 1932 under Franz von Papen, abandoned the principles of State Law, and provided legal means for the activities of the SA, SS and the Gestapo. During his time, the rights of Jews were revoked and a special criminal code was...

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Survey Report, Lecture, Letter, Laws and Decrees, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the International Military Tribune - IMT in Nuremberg, regarding anti-Jewish legislation in Germany

Documentation of the International Military Tribune - IMT in Nuremberg, regarding anti-Jewish legislation in Germany Anti-Jewish legislation; the part taken by the accused in the legislation of the laws; - Names of the accused: Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Frick, Wilhelm Stuckarth, Arthur Gutt, Berhard Losener, Martin Bormann, Fritz Reinhardt, Franz Schlegelberger, Ludwig Graf von Schwerin-Krosigk, and George Thierack; - Survey of the anti-Jewish legislation in Germany during 1933-1943, including the Nuremberg Laws, the regulations for the implementation of the anti-Jewish legislation, and the part taken...

File Number : 257

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : English

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946 Included in the file: 23/06/1942 Letter, marked as Classified, of SS-Oberfuehrer Viktor Brack to Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, in which he suggests to select and preserve approximately two-three million fit-for-work Jews following their sterilization or castration by X-ray. (pp. 2-3). 27/10/1943 Letter of SS-Gruppenfuehrer Odilo Globocnik (from Triest) to SS-Gruppenfuehrer Maximilian von Herff in the...

File Number : 120

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Reports, Correspondence, Protocol, Orders, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

Report of a discussion held by Minister of Justice Thierack with Goebbels regarding legal matters, including Goebbels' opinion concerning mass murder, 1942

Report of a discussion held by Minister of Justice Thierack with Goebbels regarding legal matters, including Goebbels' opinion concerning mass murder, 1942 Goebbels has determined that anti-social factors must be destroyed, who in most part are Jews and Gypsies, but that Poles who were sentenced to years of imprisonment, and Czechs and Germans who were sentenced to death or to life in prison, are to be judged separately; the preferred means for murder is "Vernichtung durch Arbeit" ([forced] labor until death); Goebbels relates to the status of the judges, and to the German legal system; attempt by Goebbels...

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence between Otto Thierack and Martin Bormann, regarding the transfer of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies to the jurisdiction of the Reichsführer-SS

Correspondence between Otto Thierack and Martin Bormann, regarding the transfer of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies to the jurisdiction of the Reichsführer-SS Correspondence by the general director of the German Ministry of Law regarding the systematic cancellation of protection under law for the Jews; letter from Otto Thierack, the Minister of Law of the Reich, to Martin Bormann, regarding the placement of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies under the jurisdiction of the Reichsführer-SS.

File Number : 351

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Dr. Friedrich Shlomo Perles: Documents and other materials on the exhibition "In the Name of the German People - Judiciary and National Socialism" in Berlin 1989

Dr. Friedrich Shlomo Perles: Documents and other materials on the exhibition "In the Name of the German People - Judiciary and National Socialism" in Berlin 1989 1. Article by F. S. Perles about the exhibition 2. Speech of the Minister of Justice Engelhard at the opening of the exhibition 3. Table of contents of the exhibition 4. Photocopies of a compilation of texts and photos in the exhibition along with handwritten notes 5. Radio and press reports on the exhibition

File Number : 1246

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Lecture, Newspaper Clippings, Exhibition, Speech, Exhibition Catalog

Language : German