[76] Tr. pp. 4106–4119.
[77] Transcript pages 4120–4124.
[78] Tr. pp. 4138–4140.
[79] Document is reproduced below in section V D 3.
[80] Tr. pp. 4141–4148.
[81] Technische Nothilfe, Technical Emergency Corps.
[82] The prosecution collected over forty different laws, decrees, extracts from the Weimar constitution, or German legal writings in Document NG-715 and introduced these in one document book as Prosecution Exhibit 112. Numerous decrees and laws from Document NG-715 are reproduced in this and later sections of this volume. Therefore, where a particular law or decree is reproduced in different parts of this volume under the heading “Partial Translation of Document NG-715,” this does not necessarily mean that only extracts from that law or decree are reproduced. It merely means that only a part of Document NG-715, which in fact contained many different “documents,” is reproduced at that point.
[83] The defense often included all or parts of documents in their document books which had previously been introduced as exhibits by the prosecution. This was not necessary, of course, in order to give the defense the benefit of materials contained in prosecution exhibits, but it was apparently done to bring together in one place (the defense document books) the documentary materials upon which the defendant principally relied. In this volume the editors have occasionally noted the designation of documents as both prosecution and defense exhibits.
[84] During the early period of the Nazi regime, this decree served as the basis for numerous “restrictions on personal freedom,” including the placing of persons in “protective custody” without trial. For example, see the Goering decree concerning the Secret State Police (Gestapo) of 11 March 1934, (Klemm Doc. 28, Klemm Ex. 28), reproduced below in section V B. See also Document NG-478, Prosecution Exhibit 61, in section C-3.
[85] These articles, contained in part II (“Fundamental Rights and Duties of Germans”) of the Weimar constitution, read: