Q. May I hand you a copy of an order of the 31 May 1941 which as I read it has the effect of extending those laws into the eastern territories. This order was signed by you. That is the prosecution’s document NG-1615, which we asked to have marked for identification as Prosecution Exhibit 521,[406] Your Honor.
If Your Honors please, if the Tribunal will permit me, I have had English copies of this and I thought they were here. I am advised that they are not in here now. I will furnish them. May I proceed and then furnish them to the Tribunal?
Have you examined that exhibit, Doctor?
A. Yes.
Q. It is signed by you as Acting Reich Minister of Justice, Martin Bormann, and Dr. Stuckart. Is that correct?
A. Yes. There are two decrees on the same day.
Q. Yes. Article 3 provides the Act for the Protection of German Blood and Honor of 15 September 1935 shall be applicable in the annexed eastern territories. That is what is known as the Nuernberg law, is it not?
A. Yes.
Q. That was applied to the eastern territories?
A. In regard to this decree, I would like to say something, if I may.