Among the Ordinances which Frick issued under the Reich Citizen Law of 15 September 1935, special mention should be made of the 11th Ordinance of 25 November 1941, which ordered the confiscation of the property of all deported or emigrated Jews; and the 13th Ordinance, under which the Jews were deprived of all legal protection and completely handed over to the jurisdiction of the police (1422-PS; 3085-PS).
Stuckart, Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, characterized this legislation as the essential preparation for the “final solution of the Jewish question” (3131-PS).
(2) Measures against “Inferior Racial Stock.” The Public Health Service was administered as a division of Frick’s Ministry. One of its subdivisions was devoted to race and heredity problems (3123-PS). In his capacity as chief of this service Frick drafted the basic law controlling sterilization of persons afflicted with “hereditary diseases” (3067-PS). Its administration was in the hands of his Ministry (D-181; L-305).
E. FRICK’S PARTICIPATION IN THE PREPARATIONS FOR AGGRESSIVE WAR.
Frick wholeheartedly supported the conspirators’ preparations for war. It was his position that:
“Germany would observe her international undertakings only so long as it suited Germany’s interests to do so.” (2385-PS)
Frick, as Reich Minister of the Interior, was
“The ‘civilian’ defense minister and as such cooperated prominently * * * in the important field of ‘defense legislation’ and thereby in the development of * * * Germany’s armed forces.” (3119-PS)
Frick’s Ministry had a division entitled “Armed Forces and Reich Defense” (3303-PS).
(1) Rearmament and reinstitution of military service. Frick took a leading part in Germany’s rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty. He drafted the basic laws on military sevice. These include the law of 16 March 1935 reintroducing universal military conscription (1654-PS); the decree of 6 March 1936 extending military and labor service to German citizens abroad; the decree of 16 June 1938 extending the military service law to Austria (1660-PS); and the decree of 30 April 1940 extending the Military Service Law to the incorporated eastern territories (see 3043-PS; 1389-PS; 388-PS, item 20).