Cover letter and a copy of Hitler's "decisions on the Jewish question," including the Aryanization of housing, bans against Jews in certain public areas and services, and the treatment of mixed German/Jewish families

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NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN LABOR PARTY Fuehrer's Deputy Chief of the Staff
Brown House, MUNICH 33, the 17 Jan. 1939 ORDER NO 1/39 SECRET
Subject: Jews.
Upon proposal of Field-Marshal Goering, the Fuehrer has made some basic decisions concerning the Jewish, problem. I make these decisions known to you in the enclosure and request that you observe to take these directives under all circumstances.
Signed : M. BORMANN
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PRIME MINISTER FIELD-MARSHALL GOERING
Commissioner -for four year plan
Berlin, 28. Dec. 1938
Upon my proposal, the Fuehrer made the following decisions concerning the Jewish problem:
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I. Housing of Jews
1. a. The tenant protective law, as a rule, is not to be abrogated for the Jews. On the contrary, it is desired, if possible, to proceed in particular cases in such a way that the Jews are quartered together in separate houses insofar as the housing conditions allow that.
b. For this reason the aryanizing of the house ownership is to be postponed until the end of the total aryanization, that is to say, for the present the aryanizing of houses has to be carried out only where in individual cases urgent reasons exist. The aryanizing of industries, businesses, agricultural estates forests, etc., is to be considered as urgent.
2. Use of sleeping and dining cars is to be forbidden to the Jews. At the same time, no special Jewish compartments to be established. As well, the use of trains, street cars, suburban railways, underground railways, busses, and ships can not be prohibited to the Jews.
3. Only the use of some public establishments, etc., is to be prohibited to the Jews. In this category belong the hotels and restaurants visited especially by party-members (for instance : Hotel Kaiserhof—Berlin; Hotel Vierjahreszeiten—Munich; Hotel Deutscher Hof—Nürnberg; Hotel Drei Mohren—Augsburg, etc.). The use of bathing establishments, some public places, bathing resorts, etc. can be prohibited to the Jews ; also medicine baths, so far as they are prescribed in particular cases by physicians, may be used by Jews, but only in such ways that no offense is created.
II. Jews who were officials and have been pensioned are not to be denied their pensions. Investigations though have to be made as to whether these Jews can get along with a reduced allowance.
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III. The Jewish welfare organizations are not to be aryanized or abolished so that the Jews do not become a public charge, but may be supported by Jewish welfare organizations.
IV. Jewish patents are property, and as such have to be aryanized. (A similar procedure toward Germany was carried out by U. S. A. and other countries during World War I).
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Mixed Marriages.
1. 1. With children (part Jews 1st class)
a. If the father is a German and the mother a Jewess, this family may stay in the future in its present lodging. The regulations for exclusion of Jews are not to be applied to such families as far as their housing is concerned.
In these cases, the property of the Jewish mother can be transferred to the German husband, or to the mixed children.
b. If the father is a Jew and the mother a German, such families also, are not to be moved for the present into Jewish quarters, because the children (part Jews 1st class) in the future, must serve in the labor service and the armed forces, and must not be exposed to Jewish propaganda. Concerning the property, one must for the present proceed in such a way that it can be completely or partly transferred to the children.
2. Without children.
a. If the husband is a German and wife a Jewess, the provisions of la are valid accordingly.
b. If the husband is a Jew, and the wife a German, these childless couplés are to be proceeded against as if they were full-blooded Jews. The husband's property can not be transferred to the wife. Both, husband and wife can be moved into the Jewish houses or Jewish quarters.
Especially in case of emigration such married couples are to be treated as Jews, as soon as an increased emigration is gotten under way.
II. If a German wife divorces a Jew, she reenters the German racial community and all disadvantages for her discontinue.
Signed: GOERING
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