The Plenipotentiary General for the
Reich Administration
The Reich Minister and Chief of
the Reich Chancellery
- TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-1656
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 535
DRAFT OF PROPOSED MEMORANDUM TO HITLER FROM MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, APRIL 1943, INITIALED BY DEFENDANT ROTHENBERGER AND MINISTERIAL DIRECTOR VOLLMER, CONCERNING IMMINENT PROSECUTION OF A JEWESS FOR SELLING HER MOTHER MILK TO A GERMAN PEDIATRICIAN
The Reich Minister of Justice
Information for the Fuehrer
(1943 No.)
After the birth of her child, a full-blooded Jewess sold her mother milk [Muttermilch] to a pediatrician and concealed that she was a Jewess. With this milk babies of German blood were fed in a nursing home for children. The accused will be charged with deception [Betrug]. The buyers of the milk have suffered damage, for mother’s milk from a Jewess cannot be regarded as food for German children. The impudent behavior of the accused is an insult as well. Relevant charges, however, have not been applied for, so that the parents, who are unaware of the true facts, need not subsequently be worried.
I shall discuss with the Reich health leader the racial hygienic aspect of the case.
Berlin,..............April 1943