VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER 5 December 1938, No. 339, Page 5
NO MORE JEWISH DRIVERS
Immediate repeal of drivers' licenses and registration papers.
Heinrich Himmler, the Reichfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, issued the following preliminary police ordinance on the repeal of drivers' licenses and registration papers of mechanized vehicles issued to Jews.
The dastardly murder by the Jew Gruenspan which aimed at the entire German people makes the Jews appear as unreliable and unfit for owning and driving of mechanized vehicles. Subject to a definitive regulation the following is decreed:
1. For general security and police reasons and for the protection of the public I herewith prohibit all Jews of German nationality living in Germany from driving mechanized vehicles of all kinds and herewith repeal their drivers' licenses, effective immediately.
2. Jews of German nationality living in Germany are prohibited from owning cars and motorcycles (with and without sidecar). As to trucks additional regulation is reserved.
3. Jews of German nationality living in Germany must deliver up their drivers' licenses of all grades as well as the registration cards for cars and motorcycles without delay by 31 December 1938 at the latest to the respective police precincts or registration offices. The official plates are to be submitted with the registration cards for being destamped.
4. The competent police and administrative offices have to take the necessary measures.
5. Offenses will be punished in accordance with existing laws.
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This police ordinance becomes effective immediately upon its publication by the press. No further communication will be made officially to the authorities in question.
RESTRICTION AGAINST JEWS IN BERLIN BEGINNING 6 DECEMBER
In accordance with Reichs-Police-Decree [Reichspolizeiverordnung] of the 28 November 1938, Berlin, 4 December in regard to the appearance of Jews in public the President of the Police [Polizeipraesident] for the state police district [Landespolizeibezirk] of Berlin has issued a first order, which will become effective on the 6 December, 1938. It decrees, that streets, squares, parks, and buildings, which are affected by the restriction against Jews, are not to be entered or driven through in vehicles by Jews of German citizenship or by Jews without citizenship.
If such Jews are still residents of a district, which is affected by the restriction against Jews, at the time when this decree becomes effective, they will have to use a permit issued by the police station of this residential district in order to cross the border of the restricted area. Effective July 1939 and thereafter permits for residents of the restricted area will not be issued anymore.
The restriction against Jews in Berlin includes:
1. All theaters, cinemas, cabarets, public concert and lecture
halls, museums, amusement places, the exhibition halls at the Messedamm including the exhibition area and radio-tower, the Deutschlandhalle and the Sports-place, the Reichs-sports-field [Reichssportsfeld], and all sports-places including the ice-skating rinks. .
2. All public and private bathing establishments and indoor baths as well as open-air baths [Freibaeder].
3. The Wilhelmstrasse from the Leipziger Strasse up to Unter den Linden including the Wilhelmplatz.
4. The Vossstrasse from the Hermann-Goering-Strasse up to the Wilhelmstrasse.
5. The Reich-Honor-Monument [Reichsehrenmal] including the sidewalk on the north side of Unter den Linden from the university to the Zeughaus [Military Historical Museum].
Exempted from articles 1-2 are the institutions and events, which have been opened to Jewish visitors in accordance with properly authorized permission. Intentional or neglectful violation will be punished with a fine of up to 150 Reichsmark or confinement up to 6 weeks.
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In addition it is announced among other things, that still more thorough orders of execution [Durchfuehrungsverordnungen] will be issued. This restriction against Jews does not apply to foreign Jews. It is probable that the restriction against Jews which has no time limits, will soon be extended to include a large number of Berlin streets. In this respect the main streets and thoroughfares of Berlin especially come into consideration, because in these streets in particular Jewry even today more or less dominates the street scene. The rows of streets in the center and the north of Berlin, where the Jewish element has predominated for centuries already, as for example the Muenz-Linien-, and Grenadier-Strasse, will probably hot be included in the districts restricted against Jews. It is therefore to be recommended that the Jews start right now looking for another residence in one of the above-mentioned parts of Berlin, and perhaps effect an exchange of residence with one of the blood Germans [Volksgenossen] residing there.
Furthermore, the Jews can figure on being restricted to purely Jewish inns in the future.
Articles on Himmler's revocation of Jews' drivers licenses and vehicle registrations, and on restrictions on the public appearance of Jews in Berlin
Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Date: 05 December 1938
Literal Title: Voelkischer Beobachter . . . No more Jewish drivers
Total Pages: 3
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2682
HLSL Item No.: 451088
Notes:This document was not entered as evidence in the trial. The order concerning Jews in Berlin was issued by the president of the Berlin state police (not named).