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| d. Penal cases against Poles, Jews,
and other foreigners. e. Penal cases of special importance concerning crimes committed by, or against minors. f. Crimes due to tragic unfortunate circumstances. g. Penal cases in which a decision on the kind and degree of punishment is especially difficult or in which uniform handling is especially urgent. h. Penal and civil cases in which persons are involved who are State or Party officials, or dignitaries, or who hold other eminent positions in public life. i. Penal and civil cases in which it is clearly the intention of the parties to call in agencies not connected with the judicial authorities. k. Penal and civil cases in which there seems to arise a conflict between the established law and the necessity of an economically and socially, reasonable solution. l. Penal and civil cases concerning the interests of State and Party, or political and economic problems, as well as problems of foreign policy and ecclesiastical problems, or the effects of the war (for instance bomb damage, matters concerning urgent payment of church rates in kind, etc.). m. Penal and civil cases in which legal problems of a general nature arise which require uniform handling by the courts. |
| [Stamped] [Signed] ROTHENBERGER, DR. |
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| Enclosure 3 |
| The President of the Hanseatic Court of Appeal |
| Hamburg, 7 May 1942 |
| To the Presidents of the Civil Senates and
of the Criminal Senate The Fuehrer's speech and the Reichstag resolution of 26 April 1942 make it necessary to do everything possible in the organizational field in order to secure jurisdiction of the kind the Fuehrer expects, especially in wartime. As announced in my speech of 1 May, I therefore intend to inform myself as extensively as possible prior to the trials of cases which are of political significance, or which involve the possibility of a certain contradiction between formal law and the public sentiment or National Socialist ideology in order to discuss matters if necessary with the presidents in question. Incidentally, I expect the presidents more than ever before to confidently submit to me for discussion matters involving the afore-mentioned problems. To obtain information as far as the civil senates and the criminal senate of the |
