1941 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, NO. 100, PAGE 547 Police decree concerning the "marking" of the Jews of September 1, 1941.
Based upon the decree relating to the police decrees of the Reich minister of November 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I S 1582) and the decree concerning the legislative power in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia of June 7, 1939 (Reichsgesetzblatt I S 1039) it is ordered hereby in agreement with the "Reichsprotektor" in Bohemia and Moravia as follows:
Section 1
1. Jews (Section 5 of the first decree to the Reich citizen law of November 1935—Reichsgesetzblatt I, S 1333) who finished the sixth year of their age are prohibited to appear in public without a Jewish star.
2. The Jewish star consists of a "Six Star" with black contours in the size of the palm of the hand of yellow material with the black inscription "Jew". It has to be worn on the left side of the chest of the clothing tightly sewed on.
Section 2
Jews are forbidden
a. to leave the boundary of their residential district without carrying a written permission of the local police authority.
b. to wear medals, decorations, and other badges.
Section 3
The sections 1 and 2 will not apply
a. to the Jewish spouse living in a mixed marriage, as far as descendants of the marriage are existent and these are not considered as Jews, and even then, if the marriage does not exist anymore or the only son has been killed in the present war.
b. to the Jewish wife of a childless mixed marriage for the duration of the marriage.
Section 4 -
1. Who contravenes against the prohibition of Sections 1 and 2, deliberately or carelessly, will be punished with a penalty up to 150 Reichsmark or with imprisonment up to six weeks.
2. Further reaching police security measures and also penal provisions, according to which a higher penalty is incurred, remain effective.
Section 5
The police decree is also effective in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia with the provision that the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia may adopt the instruction of section 2 to the local conditions in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia.
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Section 6
The police decree will be effective 14 days after its promulgation. Berlin, September 1, 1941
The Reich Minister of the Interior by order Heydrich.
Police decree requiring Jews to wear the "Jewish Star," and forbidding them to leave their districts without a police pass
Authors
Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of Security Police (SIPO) and Security Service (SD))
Reinhardt Heydrich
Most Horrible German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
- Born: 1904-03-07 (Halle (Saale))
- Died: 1942-06-04 (Prague)
- Country of citizenship: German Reich
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; fencer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Schutzstaffel (series ordinal: 10120)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer; SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
Date: 01 September 1941
Literal Title: Reichsgesetzblatt . . . Police decree concerning the "Marking" of the Jews of September 1, 1941.
Defendant: Wilhelm Frick
Total Pages: 2
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-2877
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450533
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…
Document Summary
PS-2877: Police decree of 1 September 1941 requiring Jew to wear Star of David.
Decree of 1 September 1941 (RGBL, 1941, I, P.547) signed by Heydrich.