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| With regard to the necessity of putting more emphasis on the racial, hereditary, and criminological-biological viewpoints in connection with educational questions within the meaning of my internal regulation of 12 June 1943 — 1200 E — Ip 2 340— Oberiandesgerichtsrat Meinhof, without prejudice to his sphere of office in department VI, is also assigned to department II as Referent. | |
| The range of his duties comprises — | |
| The training of judges, public prosecutors, jurists, and other officials, as well as of the entire new generation in a racial, hereditary, and criminological-biological line of thought. | |
| Berlin, 17 December 1943 | |
| DR. THIERACK | |
| 1200 E — Ip 2 383
[Handwritten] Adjutant KLEMM |
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| TRANSLATION OF KLEMM DOCUMENT 58 KLEMM DEFENSE EXHIBIT 58 |
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| DECREE SIGNED BY DR. CONTI* AND DEFENDANT KLEMM, 14 NOVEMBER 1944, TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING ACTIVITIES OF HIGHER HEREDITARY HEALTH COURTS, AND AUTOMATICALLY LEGALIZING PENDING CONTESTED DECISIONS | |
| 1944 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 330 | |
| Seventh decree concerning the execution of the law for the prevention of progeny with hereditary diseases | |
| On the basis of Article 17 of the law for the prevention of progeny with hereditary diseases of 14 July 1938 (Reich Law Gazette I p. 629) in combination with the decree of the Fuehrer concerning the total war effort of 25 July 1944 (Reich Law Gap. 161) it is decreed in agreement with the Reich Minister and chief of the Reich Chancellery, the chief of the Party Chancellery and the Plenipotentiary General for the administration of the Reich: | |
| Article 1 | |
| (1) The higher hereditary health courts discontinue their activity temporarily — for the duration of the suspension the definite decision is with the hereditary health courts. | |
* Dr. Conti was Reich Health Leader (Reichsgesundheitsfuehrer). His activities, came into issue in the Medical Case, United states vs. Karl Brandt, et al., Volumes I and II, this series. Conti committed suicide in 1945 after Germany's unconditional surrender.
