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that in the meantime unsuccessful interventions had taken place. Now I notice that in this letter to Lammers I informed him that Luftglas had been transferred to the police for the purpose of execution. That is noticeable because the information about the orders given by the police never said anything about executions, but merely stated "transfer" as the subject of the order. If in this letter to Lammers, I therefore informed him that Luftglas was transferred for the purpose of execution, this can only be based on the information we received from the police, and I am quite sure that I formulated the letter in that way in order to inform Lammers how the direct Fuehrer order — that is, the order to the police — was actually worded and in order to point out to him the effects of such transfer orders. In conclusion, in regard to this question of transfer I would like to say that the Hitler order went to the police through administrative channels. The police had legally and by authority the possibility to execute the order. The Ministry, on the other hand, had only one weapon, and that was the word. If this weapon remained without success, the Ministry was defenseless and had to submit to force. |
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| C. Measures to Influence or Avoid the Judicial Process | |
| I. DEVELOPMENTS
PRINCIPALLY DURING THE PERIOD WHEN GUERTNER WAS REICH MINISTER OF
JUSTICE (1933 – JANUARY 1941) |
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| a. Example of relations of officials of the Reich Ministry of Justice, judges, and public prosecutors with officials of the Nazi Party, the Gestapo, the SD, the SS, and the SA | |
| TRANSLATION OF KLEMM DOCUMENT 20 KLEMM DEFENSE EXHIBIT 20 |
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| LETTERS FROM GUERTNER, REICH MINISTER OF JUSTICE, TO HITLER'S DEPUTY RUDOLF HESS AND TO THE SA CHIEF OF STAFF, VIKTOR LUTZE, 5 JUNE 1935, CONCERNING INTERFERENCE IN THE TRIAL OF CAMP HOHENSTEIN PERSONNEL | |
| I. Letter from Guertner to Hess | |
| Copy | |
| Berlin, 5 June 1935 | |
| The Reich Minister of Justice
Z.F.g¹° 1696.34 Letter to the Deputy of the Fuehrer Reich Minister Hess |
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