The Reich Minister of Justice
V a 25 399
- Berlin W8, 20 July 1935
- Wilhelmstrasse 65
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[Handwritten] 2 copies sent to [illegible]
To: Messrs. Chief Public Prosecutors and Senior Public Prosecutors
Subject: Struggle against political Catholicism
For your confidential information and notice, I enclose a copy of the Prussian Ministerpraesident’s decree of 16 July 1935—St.M.I. 7905—to the Oberpraesidenten and Regierungspraesidenten, etc.
I decree it to be the duty of all prosecuting authorities to cooperate closely with the competent State Police and administrative authorities in taking action—with the deliberation necessary to avoid mistakes but also with the severity necessitated by the dangerous nature against all manifestations of the efforts of political Catholicism to undermine the unity of the State and create discord among the people, wherever they appear without regard for the person or rank of the perpetrator.
[Handwritten remarks on left margin illegible; illegible signature.]