“At a time when thousands of our best men, fathers and sons of our people, are being killed in battle, nobody shall hope to live who attempts to depreciate at home the sacrifice which is made at the front. No matter under which disguise the attempt is made to disturb this German front, to undermine the resistance power of our people, to weaken the authority of the regime or to sabotage production on the home front; the culprit shall die! But there is this difference—while death brings highest honor to the soldier at the front, the other who depreciates this sacrifice shall die in shame.”

Every judge and every public prosecutor while doing his duty must keep these words of the Fuehrer in mind. This will enable him to fulfill his task in such a manner as is demanded by the Fuehrer.

I beg to give this outline immediately to all judges concerned with the administration of penal justice and to all public prosecutors, and to bring it to the notice of all judges who will in future be concerned with the administration of penal justice.

[typed] Signed: Dr. Schlegelberger

Certified: [Signed] Massmundt

First Secretary at the Ministerial Chancellery

[Stamp]

Reich Ministry of Justice,

Office of the Minister