SECRET
1938
Reich Justice Ministry [various numbers and notes]
The
To:
Commissioner of the Four Year Plan
[various illegible notations] Reich Justice Ministry, 14 Dec 1938
The Highest Reich authorities,
The leaders and heads of branches of the party and the affiliated organizations,
The district leaders,
The Reich governors,
The state governments,
The Chief Presidents and Presidents of the governments,
The Reich commissars for the Saar territory
for the Reunion of Austria with the German Reich
for the Sudeten German districts.
To message: to the Reich leaders of the NSDAP.
In agreement with the representatives of the leader I hereby order the following:
I
1. The elimination of Jews from the German economic life is the task of the state and therefore is exclusively the duty of the authorities and agencies expressly designated for that.
2. As far as special installations have been created for this purpose, they require the approval of the Reich minister of economy or they are to be dissolved.
II
The taking over of Jewish businesses and other fortunes from Jewish possession has to be affected only on a strictly lawful basis according to the directives issued for this purpose. Transactions which were made since 1 Nov 1938 contradictory thereto, will be cancelled.
Ill
Only the Reich is entitled to the benefit from the elimination of the Jews from the German economic life.
Persons and agencies which have illegally benefited from the transfer of Jewish businesses or other fortunes from Jewish pos-
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session, may therefore be ordered to pay a compensation tax in favor of the Reich.
Berlin, 10 December 1938
The Commissar for the Four Year Plan
Signed: GOERING General Fieldmarshall
To be circulated Dept. IV
Messrs: Read Messrs : Read
DR. VOLKMAR DR. PAETZOLD
ANZ Initialed 10/1 DR. POULE
DR. BECKER Initialed 11/1 BR. PR-FFSGH
BRAUNS Initialed 14/1 REINECK Initialed 14/1
DR. BREITHAUPT Initialed REINECKE Initialed 13/1
EPPING Initialed 11/9 REXROTH Initialed 11/1
FECHNER Initialed 12/9 DR. SAAGE Initialed 11/1
DR. FICKER Initialed 14/1 SEBODE (since
DRr-HESS-E 9.1.39) Initialed 16/1
HENSSLER Vacation . 18/1 DR. VON SPRECK-HOFFMANN Initialed 11/1 ELSEN Initialed 11/1
HORNIG Initialed 11/1 DR. SCHAEFFER,
E-R—JONAS GAss. Initialed 11/1
DR. KOEHLER Initialed 18/1 DR. SCHULTZE Initialed 11/1
DR. KRAMER, AGR Initialed 11/1 STAUD Initialed 12/1
KUEHNEMANN Initialed 11/1 STE-M-MEER
LAUTERBAUH DR. VOGELS Initialed 13/1
LENTZ Initialed, date illegible DR. WAITNAUER Initialed 11/1
MASSFELLER Initialed 13/1 ZIEGERT Initialed 11/1
DR. MERTEN Initialed 11/1
to V a 445/38 Secret
Orders to governmental and party offices for the "elimination of Jews from the German economic life" as a government program
Authors
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
Hermann Göring
German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
- Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
- Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)
Date: 10 December 1938
Literal Title: 1938 Reich Justice Ministry
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
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-1208
Citation: IMT (page 2330)
HLSL Item No.: 452273
Trial Issues
Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Plundering of private property and occupied territories (inc. Reinhardt Ac…
Document Summary
PS-1208: Official Mimeograph Copy of Goering Decree with dateline, Berlin, December 10, 1938 in re: ELIMINATION OF JEWS FROM GERMAN ECONOMY. 'Secret'. From Goering as Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan to Various high Reich Officials
PS-1208: Secret order from Goring, 10 December 1938, to the supreme Reich and party offices and other authorities to the effect that the elimination of Jews from German economy was a matter to be dealt, with by the state alone and that any resulting benefits were to accrue to the state