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| I replied if these are the real reasons, then I was proud of it. Before I left him he again lied to me by saying, yes, he would have liked very much to nominate me for the position of president of the Reich Supreme Court, but Lammers had raised opposition against that. Then a few days later I saw Lammers in order to inquire about the background of the story. Lammers told me just the opposite. It was he, he said, who tried to offer some office of some kind to me, but Thierack had been the person who rejected that. Through these circumstances the separation which had been pending for a long time actually took place, and without a new office, without gratitude, and without any compensation of any kind I left. And in accordance with that was the publication in all German newspapers where the following notice appeared, and I quote: "Change of office in the Reich Ministry of Justice. Upon the suggestion made by the Reich Minister of Justice the Fuehrer, after effecting the transfer of Under Secretary Rothenberger, into Wartestand [Civil Service inactive status] has appointed Ministerialdirektor Klemm, who up to that time was in the Party Chancellery, Under Secretary in the Ministry of Justice." | |
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| b. Judges' Letters Written by Thierack and Defendant Klemm | |
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-500 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 90 |
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| CIRCULAR LETTER
FROM THIERACK TO JUDGES, 7 SEPTEMBER 1942, EXPLAINING THE ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTION OF THE JUDGES' LETTERS |
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| The Reich Minister of Justice
3110/2-IVa 4 1902 |
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| Berlin
W 8, 7 September 1942 Wilhelmstrasse 65 Telephone: 110044 Long Distance 116516 |
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| To: 1. The Presidents of the Reich Supreme Court and People's Court |
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| 2. The Presidents of the District Courts of Appeal (except of Prague) | |
| 3. The
Presidents of the District Courts (with extra copies f or the local courts) |
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