“The defendant is granted extenuating circumstances in respect to the crime. The court considered in the defendant’s favor that, as a Pole, he does not have the same restraint in his relations with female co-workers as the German farm hand would have.”
The Fuehrer rejected the view of the court as totally misleading. The Fuehrer urges you to take immediately the steps necessary to preclude repetition in other courts of the view of the Lueneburg court. I should be obliged if you would inform me what steps you have taken in the matter.
Heil Hitler!
Yours very truly,
(Name of the Reich Minister)
[Handwritten] with final copy
3. To Reichsleiter Bormann
Dear Mr. Bormann:
I transmitted the instruction of the Fuehrer as contained in your letter of 26 March 1941, concerning the consideration of extenuating circumstances in crimes committed by Poles, to Under Secretary Dr. Schlegelberger with the request for information about what steps he has taken in the matter.