extraordinary powers and thus become the leading
force in Nazi Germany.
On 9 June 1934 Hess issued a decree in accordance with which the
"Security Service of the Reichsführer SS" was declared
to be the "sole political news and defense service of the
Party" (GB-257).
Thus the defendant played a direct part in the creation and
consolidation of the system of special police organs which were being
prepared for the commission of crimes in occupied territories.
We find Hess to have always been an advocate of the man-hating
"master race" theory. In a speech made on 16 January 1937
while speaking of the education of the German Nation, Hess pointed
out: "Thus, they are being educated to put Germans above the
subjects of a foreign nation, regardless of their positions or their
origin" (GB-253, PS-3124).
Hess signed the so-called "Law for the Protection of Blood
and Honor" on 15 September 1935 (USA-200, PS-3179). The body of
this law states that "the Führer's deputy is authorized to
issue all necessary decrees and directives" for the practical
realization of the "Nuremberg decrees".
On 14 November 1935, Hess issued an ordinance under the Reich
citizenship law in accordance with which the Jews were denied the
right to vote at elections or hold public office (GB-258, PS-1417).
On 20 May 1938 a decree signed by Hess extended the Nuremberg
laws to Austria (GB-259, PS-2124). On 12 October 1939 Hess signed a
decree creating the administration of Polish occupied territories
(Reichsgesetzblatt, No. 210, 1939, p. 2077). Article 2 of this decree
gave the Defendant Frank the power of dictator.
There is sufficiently convincing evidence showing that this
defendant did not limit himself to this general directive which
introduced into the occupied Polish territories a regime of unbridled
terror. As is shown in the letter of the Reichsminister of Justice to
the Chief of the Reich Chancellery dated 17 April 1941, Hess was the
initiator in the formation of special "penal laws" for
Poles and .Jews in occupied Eastern territories. The role of this
defendant in the drawing up of these "laws" is
characterized by the Minister of Justice in the following words:
"In accordance with the opinion
of the Führer's deputy I started from the point of view that the
Pole is less susceptible to the infliction of ordinary punishment . .
. . Under these new kinds of punishment, prisoners are to be lodged
outside prisons in camps and are to be forced to do heavy and
heaviest labor . . . . The introduction of corporal punishment which
the deputy of the Führer has brought up for discussion has not