As the Supreme Reich Authority in Bohemia and
Moravia, Frick bears general responsibility for the acts of
oppression in that territory after 20 August 1943, such as terrorism
of the population, slave labor, and the deportation of Jews to the
concentration camps for extermination. It is true that Frick's duties
as Reich Protector were considerably more limited than those of his
predecessor, and that he had no legislative and limited personal
executive authority in the Protectorate Nevertheless, Frick knew full
well what the Nazi policies of occupation were in Europe,
particularly with respect to Jews, at that time, and by accepting the
office of Reich Protector he assumed responsibility for carrying out
those policies in Bohemia and Moravia.
German citizenship in the occupied countries as
well as in the Reich came under his jurisdiction while he was
Minister of the Interior. Having created a racial register of persons
of German extraction, Frick conferred German citizenship on certain
groups of citizens of foreign countries. He is responsible for
Germanization in Austria, Sudetenland, Memel, Danzig, Eastern
territories (West Prussia and Posen), and Eupen, Malmedy, and
Moresnot. He forced on the citizens of these territories, German law,
German courts, German education, German police security, and
compulsory military service.
During the war nursing homes, hospitals, and asylums in which
euthanasia was practiced as described elsewhere in this Judgment,
came under Frick's jurisdiction. He had knowledge that insane, sick,
and aged people, "useless eaters", were being
systematically put to death. Complaints of these murders reached him,
but he did nothing to stop them. A report of the Czechoslovak War
Crimes Commission estimated that 275,000 mentally deficient and aged
people, for whose welfare he was responsible, fell victim to it.
Conclusion
The Tribunal finds that Frick is not guilty on
Count One. He is guilty on Counts Two, Three, and Four.
STREICHER
Streicher is indicted on Counts One and Four. One
of the earliest members of the Nazi Party, joining in 1921, he took
part in he Munich Putsch. From 1925 to 1940 he was Gauleiter of
Franconia. elected to the Reichstag in 1933, he was an honorary
general in the SA. His persecution of the .Jews was notorious. He was
the publisher of Der Stürmer an anti-Semitic weekly
newspaper, from 1923 to 1945 and was its editor until 1933.