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| [pro
] posed to Reich Minister Lammers,
by secret letter on 5 April 1942 (4055-PS, Pros. Ex. 401) :
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"The measures for the final
solution of the Jewish question should extend only to full Jews and descendants
of mixed marriages of the first degree, but should not apply to descendants of
mixed marriages of the second degree. [First degree presumably those with two
non-Aryan grandparents, and second degree with only one.]
"With regard
to the treatment of Jewish descendants of mixed marriages of the first degree,
I agree with the conception of the Reich Minister of the Interior which he
expressed in his letter of 16 February 1942, to the effect that the prevention
of propagation of these descendants of mixed marriages is to be preferred to
their being thrown in with the Jews and evacuated. It follows therefrom that
the evacuation of those half-Jews who are no more capable of propagation is
obviated from the beginning. There is no national interest in dissolving the
marriages between such half-Jews and a full-blooded German.
"Those
half-Jews who are capable of propagation should be given the choice to submit
to sterilization or to be evacuated in the same manner as
Jews." |
| Schlegelberger knew of the pending procedures
for the evacuation of Jews and acquiesced in them. As to half-Jews his only
suggestion was that they be given the free choice of either one of the impaling
horns of a dilemma. On 17 April 1941 Schlegelberger wrote to Lammers as follows
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"On being informed of the Fuehrer's
intention to discriminate in the sphere of penal law between the Poles (and
probably the Jews as well), and the Germans, I prepared, after preliminary
discussions with the presidents of the courts of appeal and the attorneys
general of the annexed eastern territories, the attached draft concerning the
administration of the penal laws against Poles and Jews in the annexed eastern
territories and in the territory of the former Free City of Danzig."
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| The draft of a proposed ordinance
"concerning the administration of justice regarding Poles and Jews in the
Incorporated Eastern Territories" was attached to his letter and is in
evidence. A comparison of its phraseology with the phraseology contained in the
notorious law against Poles and Jews of 4 December 1941 discloses beyond
question that Schlegelberger's draft constituted the basis on which, with
certain modifications and changes, the law against Poles and Jews was enacted.
In this respect he was not only guilty of participation in the racial
persecution of Poles |
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