Heil my Fuehrer!
[Signed] Dr. Schlegelberger
To the Fuehrer and Chancellor of the Greater German Reich, Adolf Hitler
- TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-280
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 70
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE REICH CHANCELLERY AND DEFENDANT SCHLEGELBERGER, MARCH AND APRIL 1941, AFTER HITLER HAD EXPRESSED DISPLEASURE AT A SENTENCE GRANTING EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES TO A POLE
Berlin, 28 March 1941
Pertaining to Reich Chancellery 4729
Subject: Sentences against Poles
1. Memorandum:
According to information from Reichsleiter Bormann a sentence of the Lueneburg District Court (apparently in a rape trial) against a Polish farm hand has been submitted to the Fuehrer, in which the defendant is granted extenuating circumstances because it was felt that he did not have the same restraint in his relations to female co-workers as German farm hands have. The Fuehrer rejected this view of the court as totally misleading. Under Secretary Schlegelberger is to take the necessary steps to preclude a repetition of this view.