[346] This circular letter was discussed during the direct examination of defendant Schlegelberger in connection with a number of other documents reproduced above in section C 2 a.
[347] A supplementary decree of 31 January 1942, signed by defendant Schlegelberger and Dr. Pfundner of the Reich Ministry of Interior, is reproduced later in this section (NG-665, Pros. Ex. 346).
[348] Document Schlegelberger 60, Schlegelberger Exhibit 26, reproduced earlier in this section.
[349] This article was published in the periodical “German Justice [Deutsche Justiz], Administration of Justice and Judicial Policy,” 104th year, Edition A, Number 2, Berlin, 9 January 1942, (p. 25 ff.).
[350] Proceedings started by the injured in order to force the public prosecutor to lodge an indictment.
[351] This decree is reproduced as a part of Document NG-715, Prosecution Exhibit 112, on page 632.
[352] Under German law, “Armenrecht,” or the benefits of the forma pauperis, are to be granted to plaintiffs or defendants who are destitute. The benefits consist, principally, of the exemption from court fees and the assignment of an ex officio lawyer, free of cost, where representation by counsel is required by law.
[353] Of the seven persons to whose attention the copies of this letter were sent, two were tried in Nuernberg—Dr. Stuckart in the Ministries Case (United States vs. Ernst von Weizsaecker, et al., vols. XII-XIV, this series); and SS General Hofmann in the RuSHA Case (United States vs. Ulrich Greifelt, et al., vols. IV-V, this series). The activities of Luther, Under Secretary in the Foreign Office, were often brought into issue in the Ministries Case.
[354] First degree presumably those with two non-Aryan grandparents and second degree with only one.
[355] Julius Streicher, editor of “Der Stuermer” and Gauleiter of Franconia, the province in which Nuernberg is located, was sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal.