Wilhelmstr. 65
Subject: Limitation of legal appeal for Jews. RM 11405 B
Reference: Your letter of 13 August 1942—III a 2 1706.42—.
The limitation for legal appeal for Jews proposed by you extends in the sphere of court decisions only to the legal appeal in a limited sense—that is to say to appeal, revision, and complaint. This regulation does not represent a comprehensive solution of the problem, since the Jews will still be given the possibility of making use of legal aids [Rechtsbehelfen] in a wider sense.
The considerations which are decisive for your draft also apply to almost all cases of “legal aids.” In criminal cases this applies above all to objections against penal rulings and to pleas for resumption of proceedings. In the sphere of civil law it would apply, e.g., to reminders of cost and execution matters, objections to execution orders and judgments by default, as well as to nullity and restitutions suits.
Also, a limitation of the admissibility of suits protesting against executions and suits filed by a third party will have to be taken into consideration, as in these cases, too, the result will be a legal aid against a judicial decision. I think it necessary to include all those cases too into the regulation.
I further request you to include into the draft a regulation declaring inadmissible the declining of a judge by a Jew.
I have no objections against the provisions of the draft relative to the disqualification of Jews to take an oath.
Heil Hitler!
[Typed] Signed: M. Bormann