[90] This part is reproduced below on page 231.
[91] The full text of this law was submitted in evidence as Schlegelberger Document 26, Schlegelberger Defense Exhibit 66. The parts of the law not reproduced here deal with arrangements for the further transfer of the administration of justice from the individual German states (Laender) to the Reich.
[92] Article 2 of the penal code prior to the above amendment was as follows:
“For no act may punishment be imposed unless such punishment is prescribed by statute before the act is committed. In the event of any change in the statute between the time of commission of an act and the time of rendering a decision, the most lenient statute shall apply.”
[93] This law and the Reich citizenship law of the same date constitute the original “Nuernberg Laws,” so-called because both were issued in Nuernberg “at the Reich Party Congress for Freedom.” The Reich citizenship law (1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 1146), was signed by Hitler and Frick, the Reich Minister of Interior. The text of this law reads as follows:
“The Reichstag has unanimously decided on the following law, which is herewith promulgated:
“1. (1) A citizen [Staatsangehoeriger] is one who belongs to the protective association of the German Reich and owes allegiance to it. (2) Citizenship can also be obtained according to regulations of the Reich and State citizenship law.
“2. (1) A Reich citizen [Reichsbuerger] is only a citizen of German or related blood, who proves through his behaviour, that he is willing and fit to serve the German people and Reich faithfully. (2) Reich citizenship [Reichsbuergerrecht] will be obtained through the award of a Reich citizenship letter. (3) The Reich citizen is the sole bearer of full political rights to the extent of the law.
“3. The Reich Minister of the Interior decrees in collaboration with the deputy of the Fuehrer those legal and administrative regulations necessary for the execution and supplementation of this law.”
[94] A number of further decrees as well as other materials concerning the application of the “Nuernberg Laws” in the Incorporated Eastern Territories (Poland), are reproduced below in section V D 2.