CONGRESS OF GERMAN LAW, 1939 [Tag Des Deutschen Rechts, 1939] issued by National Socialistic Law Guardians League, [Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund], Publisher: German Legal Publishing House, Page 489.
Meeting of the Reich Group of Young Law Guardians [Rechtswahrer] on 19 May 1939
The Reich Group Administrator [Reichsgruppenwalter] of Young Law Guardians, Heinz Billig, at the beginning of his speech on the legal profession and its successors [Nachwuchs], made the demand that from the present Young Law Guardians the type of German law guardian should be formed. While the governmental educational organs in the first instance take care of purely technical education, it remains the task of the party and its organizations to exercise influence on the ideological conception of the Young Law Guardians .... A fine success was also noted in the collaboration of the Reich group with the Reich professional jurisprudence group [Reichfachgruppe Rechtswissenschaft] of the Reich Students Leadership [Reichsstudent-enfuehrung] and with the racial-political [Rassenpolitischen] office of the NSDAP. Referring to the legal schooling within the Hitler Youth [Hitler Jugend], the speaker emphasized that the ignorance of the simplest legal principles and its results in wide circles of the nation could be fought best within the Hitler Youth. Therefore the legal education of the Hitler Youth is supported on the broadest scale. At the close of his address the speaker turned to problems of the establishment of the National Socialist education of the Young Law Guardians.
The second speech of the meeting was given by the head of the social office of the Reich Youth Leadership [Sozialamt der Réichsjugendfuehrung] Obergebietsfuehrer Axmann. "Reich Minister Dr. Frank", said Obergebietsfuehrer Axmann, "has created the Youth Legal Committee [Jugendrechtsausschuss] for the new establishment of Youth Law and has appointed me, as the head of the Social Office of the Reich Youth Leadership, chairman. Through this personal union the efficient collabora-
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tion of the Academy for German Law [Akademie fuer Deutsches Recht] and the Hitler Youth is guaranteed in the best manner." Besides the Youth Labor Law the problems for the renewal of the Youth Criminal Law now have been taken in hand. As another field of work, the Obergebietsfuehrer mentioned legal guardianship, the task of which was the guarding of legal matters of the Hitler Youth as well as giving aid to its members in all legal matters. The third big field of legal work for the Hitler Youth should be legal schooling, where already efficient work could be done.
Summary of two speeches on the role of young Nazi lawyers in the profession, including the contributions of Hitler Youth
Date: 13 May 1939
Literal Title: Page 489, Congress of German Law, 1939 . . . Meeting of the Reich Group of Young Law Guardians (Rechtswahrer) on 19 May 1939
Defendant: Baldur Schirach, von
Total Pages: 1
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-3459
Citation: IMT (page 2757)
HLSL Item No.: 453104
Notes:The two speakers were Heinz Billig and Axmann. This document was originally placed in the first document book on Schirach (folder 17).