Frick
The Reich Minister of Justice
Dr. Guertner
- PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-715
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 112
- [Also Klemm Document 1.
- Klemm Defense Exhibit 1.]
THE “ENABLING ACT”[86]
1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART 1, PAGE 141
Law for the Solution of the Emergency of People and Reich of 24 March 1933
The Reichstag has decreed the following law, which is hereby promulgated in agreement with the Reich Council [Reichsrat], after it has been duly established that the prerequisites of legislation changing the constitution have been fulfilled.
Article 1
Laws of the Reich can be decreed, apart from the procedure provided by the constitution of the Reich, also by the government of the Reich. This also applies to the laws mentioned in articles 85, paragraphs 2, and 87 of the constitution of the Reich.