PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-674PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 100
CIRCULAR LETTER FROM THE REICH MINISTRY OF JUSTICE TO LEADING JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS, 19 FEBRUARY 1944, TRANSMITTING EXCERPTS FROM REPORTS OF A CONFERENCE OF JUSTICE OFFICIALS ON CASES OF “UNDERMINING” AND “MALICIOUS POLITICAL ACTS”[511]
CIRCULAR LETTER FROM THE REICH MINISTRY OF JUSTICE TO LEADING JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS, 19 FEBRUARY 1944, TRANSMITTING EXCERPTS FROM REPORTS OF A CONFERENCE OF JUSTICE OFFICIALS ON CASES OF “UNDERMINING” AND “MALICIOUS POLITICAL ACTS”[511]
The Reich Minister of Justice
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Berlin W 8, 19 February 1944Wilhelmstrasse 65Telephone: 110044Long distance: 116516
Confidential
To:
1. The Presidents of the Reich Supreme Court and of the People’s Court
2. The Reich Chief Prosecutors at the Reich Supreme Court and at the People’s Court
3. The Presidents of the District Courts of Appeal
4. The Attorneys General at the District Court of Appeal
Subject: Meeting on 3 and 4 February 1944
Enclosures: Additional copies for the presidents of the district courts and the chief public prosecutors
Enclosed please find a copy of excerpts from some of the reports in the field of criminal justice of the Reich Ministry of Justice made at the session on 3 and 4 February 1944. Point No. 7 was not discussed at the session, I beg you to discuss this point, too, at the meeting planned with the judges and prosecutors of your district and to see that they observe the instructions given in the copy.
[Stamp]
Reich Minister of Justice
Ministerial Chancellery
By order:
[Typed]Dr. Vollmer
Certified: [Signed]Bluenke
Clerk
313 E—3 a 3376
To: The Chief Public Prosecutors, for information
Munich, 7 March 1944
The Attorney General
By Order:
[Typed] signed:Keidel
Chief Public Prosecutor