c. Reich Minister for People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda
d. Foreign Office
e. Chief of the Party Chancellery, Munich
f. Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia
Subject: Restriction of legal rights [Rechtsmittel][371] for Jews in criminal cases
1 Enclosure
Enclosed I submit the draft for an ordinance concerning the restriction of legal rights for Jews in criminal cases with the request to state your opinion in regard to it.
I have emphasized the importance in war of this ordinance, because it indirectly serves national defense. The dissatisfaction which is apparent in wide circles of the German population with regard to the fact that legal rights in criminal cases are still afforded to Jews and that they are still given the right to appeal to the courts in cases of sentences inflicted by the police is liable to weaken the determination of the German people to defend itself in this contest which has been imposed on it.
As Deputy:
[typed] signed: Dr. Freisler