[385] Document NG-219, Prosecution Exhibit 42, reproduced above in section C 3 a.
[386] Document Schlegelberger 79, Schlegelberger Exhibit 72, was a law of 25 March 1939 amending the German Civil Service Law. Document Schlegelberger 80, Schlegelberger Exhibit 73, was the third law amending the German Civil Service Law of 21 October 1941, neither of which are reproduced.
[387] Reproduced earlier in this subsection.
[388] For contemporaneous documents concerning labor camps in German-occupied Poland, see the Pohl Case, United States vs. Oswald Pohl, et al., Volume V, this series.
[389] Document NG-151, Prosecution Exhibit 204 is reproduced previously in this section.
[390] Schlegelberger refers to his letter of 13 August 1942 to the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, making specific proposals for the wording of the decree. This letter is reproduced earlier in this section as part of a lengthy correspondence on the matter (Doc. NG-151, Pros. Ex. 204).
[391] Schlegelberger refers to decisions taken by Thierack after consultations with Reich Leader SS Himmler on 18 September 1942. See Thierack’s own memorandum of this conference (654-PS, Pros. Ex. 39) reproduced in section C 3 a, and Thierack’s letter to Bormann of 13 October 1942 (NG-558, Pros. Ex. 143) reproduced earlier in this section.
[392] Reproduced earlier in this section.
[393] The reference is to a provision in German law whereby a person who has been granted the benefits of the forma pauperis but who, later on, ceases to be poor, must pay the court and lawyer’s fees from which he had been exempted.
[394] Document NG-880, Prosecution Exhibit 459, is reproduced earlier in this section.