[Stamp] Office
8 June 1944
H/Frl. [illegible]
1. To the President of the Court of Appeal, Vienna
Subject: Handling of cases concerning descent of Jews or Jewish persons of mixed race
No previous correspondence.
The Chief of the Security Police and the Security Service pointed out that in cases concerning descent of Jews and Jewish persons of mixed race the office of the police are frequently asked for information on the place of abode of deported Jews by the courts especially by the District Court Vienna, or that their admission, as witnesses or for the purpose of examination for hereditary biological expert opinions is requested. These requests cannot be granted for reasons of the Security Police.
Even if the hearing (and examination)[381] of the Jews (be an important piece of evidence for the clarifying of the question of descent) in many cases help to frustrate the intentions (of the Jews) to conceal their descent, reasons of the security police demand to desist therefrom (from this piece of evidence).
In the near future I intend to issue in a decree detailed regulations for the handling of cases concerning the descent of Jews and Jewish persons of mixed race. Already now I request to inform the District Court Vienna (and other courts, in your district, which according to your judgment, Mr. President of the Appellate Court, should be informed) of the following:
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