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to be handed over. I shall inform the Fuehrer
of this through Reichsleiter Bormann.¹
3. Administration of justice
by the people This is to be carried out step by step as soon as
possible, first of all in the villages and the small towns of up to about
20,000 inhabitants. It is difficult to carry it out in large towns. I shall
rouse the Party particularly to cooperate in this scheme by an article in the
"Hoheitstraeger." It is evident that jurisdiction must not be permitted to lie
in the hands of the Party.
4. Decrees concerning the police and the
administration of justice will in future be published after having been
coordinated, for example, in cases where unmarried mothers attempting to
procure abortion are not prosecuted.
5. The Reich Leader SS agrees that
the cancellation of sentence, even for members of the police, will remain with
the Reich Minister of Justice as laid down in article 8 of the law relating to
the cancellation of sentence.
6. The Reich Leader SS has given full
consent to the ruling I have planned on corporal punishment ordered by the
Fuehrer.
7. I refer to the law concerning asocial elements and give
notification of the claims of the administration of justice, e.g., in the
classification of juveniles as asocial elements and their direction.
It
likewise seems to me that the actual circumstances which serve to classify a
person as asocial are not laid down in the law with sufficient clarity. The
Reich Leader SS is awaiting our opinion and will desist from submission of the
law until then.
[Handwritten] One thing is clear
the reduction of the age of discretion has been tentatively submitted
to, and approved by the competent agencies.
8.
The Reich Leader SS has agreed to a clause for the Juvenile Court Law, whereby
the age of discretion can be reduced to 12 years and the age of limited
discretion can be extended to over 18 years.
9. SS Lieutenant Colonel
Bender, on the staff of the Reich Leader SS, is appointed by the Reich Leader
SS as liaison officer for matters which apparently necessitate direct liaison
with the Reich Leader SS. He can be contacted at any time by teleprinter at the
field headquarters of the Reich Leader SS, and will also come to Berlin once
every month to report to me. SS Captain Wanniger is appointed liaison officer
for other matters; he is stationed at the Reich Security Main
Office.
[Handwritten] Kuemmerlein²
10. The Reich Leader SS points out that in the
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__________ ¹ Thierack wrote a
letter to Bormann on this subject on 13 October 1942, ,entitled "Administration
of Criminal Justice against Poles, Russians, Jews, and Gypsies." (See Doc.
NG-558, Pros. Ex, 143 reproduced in section V D 2.) ² Kuemmerlein was
Thierack's adjutant.
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