Frick
The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
Dr. Lammers
- PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-700
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 625
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DECREE, 3 SEPTEMBER 1939, OF THE FUEHRER AND REICH CHANCELLOR CONCERNING EXECUTION OF THE RIGHT OF PARDON[98]
During my absence from Berlin I delegate to the Reich Minister of Justice the execution of the right of cancellation [Niederschlagungsrecht] as well as the power to grant pardon and to dismiss petitions for pardon, in cases which come under the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts insofar as I have reserved these decisions to myself in the decree of 1 February 1935 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, page 74).
The same applies to revocation of decisions based on the decree of 23 November 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, page 729).
I reserve to myself the right to decide personally in individual cases.
Berlin, 3 September 1939