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Instructions to enforce the decree prohibiting double membership in both the Nazi party and Christian Science

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Martin Bormann (Chief, Party Chancellery, deputy to Hess, then Hitler)

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Martin Bormann

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)

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  • Born: 1900-07-17 1900-06-17 (Halberstadt)
  • Died: 1945-05-02 (Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
  • Occupation: farmer; military personnel; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel
  • Participant in: Aryanization; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant; since: 1945-11-19)
  • Military rank: Obergruppenführer; soldier

Date: 03 June 1939

Literal Title: Subject: Adherents to Christian Science who are members of the Party

Defendant: Martin Bormann

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-838

Citation: IMT (page 2790)

HLSL Item No.: 453164

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Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…

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PS-838: Bormann directive in re incompatibility of Christian science and membership in the NSDAP

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PS-838: Circular letter by Bormann, 3 June 1939, forbidding party members to belong to the Christian science association

NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY The Deputy of the Fuehrer The Brown House, Munich 33, 3 June 1939
Stabsleiter
Circular No. 122139
Subject: Adherents to Christian Science who are members of the Party
In decree No. 51/1939, dated 6 March 1939 the deputy of the Fuehrer has forbidden that members of the Party be followers of Christian Science due to the outspoken international connections of Christian Science and he decreed that wherever doublemembership exists it will have to be annulled immediately.
I request that the leaders of the organizations of the Party issue the necessary decree within the realm of their jurisdiction and also make sure that no double-membership of Christian Science and of party organizations exist.
I also request of the leaders of the affiliated organizations to make sure by issuing decrees that within their realm of jurisdiction members of the Christian Science will not hold official positions. I have no objection for members of the affiliated organizations to be members of the Christian Science.
Signed: M. Bormann
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