8. The Reich Leader SS has agreed to a clause for the Juvenile Court Law, whereby the age of discretion can be reduced to 12 years and the age of limited discretion can be extended to over 18 years.
9. SS Lieutenant Colonel Bender, on the staff of the Reich Leader SS, is appointed by the Reich Leader SS as liaison officer for matters which apparently necessitate direct liaison with the Reich Leader SS. He can be contacted at any time by teleprinter at the field headquarters of the Reich Leader SS, and will also come to Berlin once every month to report to me. SS Captain Wanniger is appointed liaison officer for other matters; he is stationed at the Reich Security Main Office.
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10. The Reich Leader SS points out that in the administration of punishment many more special institutions should be set up, following the principle that incorrigible criminals should be confined separately, and that those capable of improvement should be separated according to the nature of their crimes (e.g., embezzlers, thieves, and those who committed acts of violence). This is recognized as being correct.
11. The Reich Leader SS demands that the penal register be kept by the police. Arguments against this are to be examined (cancellation, aggravation, and the use of an extract from the penal register). The question is to be further discussed with SS Major General Streckenbach.
12. The Reich Leader SS points out SS First Lieutenant, Judge at the Reich Supreme Court, Altstoetter, at present on active service as a major, as being reliable and also District Court President Stepp; he considers Attorney General Jung in Dresden unreliable.
13. Finally, the Reich Leader SS broaches the subject of the office of the public prosecutor and its transfer to the police. I rejected it flatly. There was no further discussion of this subject.
14. It is agreed that in consideration of the intended aims of the government for the clearing up of the eastern problems in future Jews, Poles, gypsies, Russians, and Ukrainians are no longer to be tried by the ordinary courts as far as punishable offenses are concerned, but are to be dealt with by the Reich Leader SS. This does not apply to civil lawsuits, nor to Poles whose names are registered for or entered in the lists of ethnic Germans.
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- TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-857
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 434