Deputy
[signature illegible]
1. There is nothing to be done from here.
2. Mr. R.R. Guilleaume to be informed after his return (7 Aug).
[signature illegible]
[name illegible]
Please ask in the Registrar's Office
of the Reich Chancellery if the
Fuehrer's decree of 1 March 42 exists.
Apparently we have only been sent the
measures of procedure.
(initials illegible) 3 July
The Fuehrer's decree of 1 March is
enclosed. PR. 4 August.
The Reich Chancellery has received
the Fuehrer decree of 1 March 42,
as a copy from the Reichsleitung
Rosenberg. I asked for it there.
Pr. 31/7
Give first to Ministerialdirector
Dr. Runte with a request for his
acknowledgment.
LABS, 5 August
[illegible marks]
FUEHRER DECREE
Jews, Freemasons, and those allied with them in their world doctrinal conceptions are opponents of National Socialism and are the instigators of the present war directed against the Reich. The planned spiritual fight against these powers is a necessary war measure.
I have therefore, charged Reichsleader Alfred Rosenberg to carry out this task in accord with the Chief of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. His staff for the occupied territories has the right to search libraries, archives, lodges, and other world doctrinal and cultural institutions of all kinds for pertinent material and to have it confiscated for the world doctrinal task of the NSDAP and the later research work of the university cultural values which are the property or are in the possession of Jews, which do not belong to an owner, or whose owners cannot be determined, are subject to the same regulation. The measures on procedure about the collaboration with the Wehrmacht will be issued by the Chief of the High Command of the Wehrmacht in accord with Reichleader Rosenberg.
The necessary measures within the Eastern territories under German administration will be taken care of by Reichleader Rosenberg in his capacity as Reich Minister for the occupied Eastern territories.
Fuehrer Headquarters, March 1, 1942
To all administrative departments of the Wehrmacht, the Party, and the State.