"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (299 page)

cultural goods, in Annexed Eastern Territories, 256–57, 752–53
n

cultural policy: in Altreich, 142, 154–56, 663
n
, 669–71
n
, 681
n;
in Annexed Eastern Territories, 223–25, 725–27
n;
in General Government, 289–91, 783–90
n. See also
denationalization

cultural professions, restrictions on, 142, 154, 669
n

curfews, 251, 745
n

“current law,” 407–8, 412–13, 470

custody rights, 385–86

Czechoslovakia, 188, 737
n

Czechs, 63, 670–71
n

“dangerous instruments,” 339, 414, 441, 830
n

Danzig-West Prussia, 216; citizenship policy in, 737
n
, 740–41
n;
educational policy in, 225; Germanization policy in, 204–5, 238; German Municipal Code use in, 211; labor policy in, 233; NSDAP personnel in, 706
n;
police courts-martial in, 459; Polish associations in, 911
n;
property seizures in, 226; segregation policy in, 209; sentencing statistics, 444; travel restrictions in, 251

Darmstadt, 633
n

Darré, Richard Walther, 187

death camps.
See
extermination camps

death certificates, for executions, 900
n

death penalty: for all offenses by Poles, 338–39, 827
n
, 830–31
n
, 892
n;
for dangerous habitual criminals, 362; extension of, 326; for Germans, 443; for helping Jews, 499; Hitler’s view on, 339; for infanticide, 334; for looting, 337; for multiple offenses, 830
n;
in
Nacht und Nebel
cases, 368; upon “racial judgment,” 854–55
n;
review of, in General Government, 495; for sexual offenses, 331–33, 338–39, 369, 827–28
n
, 855
n;
speed of execution of, 440, 459, 903–4
n;
as standard sentence, 421, 426, 441–46, 452, 879
n;
statistics, 444–45, 510, 822
n
, 850
n
, 888
n
, 889
n
, 895
n
, 923–24
n;
for violent acts against Germans, 321, 413–14, 418, 504, 515–16, 821
n
, 887
n;
for war crimes, 337–38

debellatio
principle, 265, 760
n

debt, refusal to pay, 381

debtors, protection of, 400–401

Decree against Conspiring to Camouflage Jewish Businesses (April 22, 1938), 396

Decree against Violent Criminals (Dec. 5, 1939), 338–39, 414, 441, 830
n

Decree for the Protection of People and State (Feb. 28, 1933), 46, 68; court rulings on, 68–69

Decree on Acts of Violence, 821
n

Decree on the Administration of Agricultural and Forestry Enterprises and Land in the Annexed Eastern Territories (Eastern Land Decree; Feb. 12, 1940), 228

Decree on the Administration of Justice in the Eastern Territories, 911
n

Decree on Administration of Justice in the General Government (Oct. 26, 1939), 498

Decree on the Administration of the Occupied Polish Territories (Oct. 12, 1939), 236, 266–67, 489

Decree on the Administrative Criminal Procedure in the General Government (Sept. 13, 1940), 527

Decree on Administrative Penalty Procedures, 463

Decree on the Admission of Physicians to Health Insurance Activity (April 22, 1933), 137

Decree on the Adoption of the German Municipal Code (Dec. 21, 1939), 210–11

Decree on Civil Law in the East (Sept. 15, 1941), 475–85, 525;
vs
. Decree on Penal Law for Poles, 485; First Implementing Regulation, 475, 478–80, 484–85; Section 4, areas of application of, 478–80

Decree on Combating Acts of Violence in the General Government (Oct. 31, 1939), 504, 512, 514, 515, 517–18, 527

Decree on Combating Attacks on the German (Aufbauwerk [Development Effort]) in the General Government (Oct. 2, 1943), 321, 515, 821
n
, 925n

Decree on the Confiscation of Private Assets in the General Government (Jan. 24, 1940), 292–95

Decree on the Employment of Jews (Oct. 3, 1941), 82–83, 148, 394

Decree on the Establishment of Courts-Martial (Aug. 3, 1942), 457

Decree on the Establishment of Special Courts (March 21, 1933), 502, 822
n

Decree on the Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life (Nov. 12, 1938), 82, 141, 146, 394

Decree on the Execution of Sentences for Poles, 877
n

Decree on the Exemption from Judicial [Estate] Execution/Administration (May 26, 1933), 400

Decree on Extraordinary Broadcasting Measures (Sept. 1, 1939), 414

Decree on Forced Labor for Jews (Oct. 26, 1939), 302, 304, 803

Decree on the German Ethnic Classification List and German State Subject Status in the Annexed Eastern Territories (March 4, 1941), 121, 123–27, 238–39, 388

Decree on German Jurisdiction in the General Government (Feb. 19, 1940), 494, 495, 498, 505–6, 507, 523, 524, 525

Decree on Guardianship for Absentees (Oct. 11, 1939), 165

Decree on the Organization and Administration of the Annexed Eastern Territories (Annexation Decree; Oct. 8, 1939), 214, 236, 719
n

Decree on the Organization of the Polish Ethnic Group in the German Reich (Feb. 27, 1940), 174, 480

Decree on Parasites upon the
Volk
(Sept. 5, 1939), 332, 337–38, 414, 417, 499, 508, 830
n
, 922
n

Decree on Penal Law for Poles (Dec. 4, 1941), 332–33, 339–45, 369–70, 376, 410, 418–29, 501, 514, 525, 545, 827
n;
basic principles of, 419–25, 438–39;
vs
. civil law decree, 525;
vs
. Decree on the Civil Law in the East, 485; details of, 425–27; developments before, 449–55; developments following, 455–69; extension of, ministry plans for, 427–29; judicial reaction to, 445–46, 454, 460–62; procedural discrimination under, 433–36, 876
n;
sentencing statistics, 444–45, 889
n;
severity of sentencing under, 440–43, 449, 877
n
, 879
n
, 886
n
, 893
n;
on special court jurisdiction, 431; undermining by police orders, 459–69

Decree on Penal Procedures in Wartime, 920
n

Decree on Polish Jurisdiction (Feb. 19, 1940), 490

Decree on the Possession of Firearms in the General Government (Nov. 26, 1941), 514

Decree on Prisoners of War in the General Government (Oct. 23, 1941), 924
n

Decree on the Property of Persons of the Former Polish State (Polish Assets Decree; Sept. 17, 1940), 165, 227

Decree on Protection of the Harvest (July 11, 1942), 515

Decree on/for the Protection of the People and the State (Feb. 28, 1933), 119, 350, 413–14

Decree on Protective Citizenship (April 25, 1943), 103, 124, 248, 654
n

Decree on the Registration of Jewish Property (April 26, 1938), 82, 158

Decree on Security and Public Order in the General Government (Oct. 26, 1939), 314, 513

Decree on the Simplification of Criminal Jurisdiction in the General Government (Oct. 24, 1942), 503, 506

Decree on Special Courts (March 21, 1933), 431

Decree on Special Courts in the General Government (Oct. 15, 1939), 498, 501, 503–4, 507

Decree on the Transfer of Judicial Matters in German and Polish Jurisdiction (Feb. 19, 1940), 491

Decree on the Treatment of Enemy Property (Jan. 15, 1940), 165

Decree on the Treatment of Foreigners (Sept. 5, 1939), 178

Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property (Dec. 3, 1938), 82, 158, 159–60, 396

Decree on Violent Criminality, 925
n

decrees: in General Government, 288, 782
n;
of Gestapo, exemption from judicial review, 20–21, 594
n;
of military administration in Annexed Eastern Territories, 411–12; secret, authorizing police authority, 367, 369–78, 460, 467–68

defamation, 334

“defeatism,” sanctions for, 96, 642
n

defendants, “non-German”: in civil process, 399–400, 867–68
n;
in penal process, 343–44, 431, 434–35, 449, 894
n

defense counsel: court-appointed, prohibition of, 343, 399–400, 435–36, 503–4, 506; Jewish, ban on, 398; political, chief public prosecutors as, 353–55; pressures on, 134–35, 839
n

democracy: Nazi view of, 15, 50, 591
n;
in Weimar period, opposition to, 12, 15.
See also
liberalism

denationalization: in General Government, 194, 286, 780
n;
in occupied Eastern Europe, 191–92, 193–94; sanctions for “Polish propaganda,” 427, 442, 875
n
, 891
n

dentists/dental technicians, German Jewish, 137–40, 661
n

deportations: from Annexed Eastern Territories, 172–73, 227, 253–55, 540, 730
n;
in General Government, 263, 506–7, 519–20, 814–15
n;
of Jews from Altreich, 120, 160–61, 171, 172–73, 308, 674–75
n
, 682–83
n;
as phase in anti-Jewish legislation, 285–86; policies preparing for, 81, 148, 164, 170, 629
n;
special authorities’ responsibility for, 541–42.
See also
resettlement

deportees: legal status of, 120, 308; seizure of property of, 160–61, 227, 674–75
n
, 730
n

deputy Führer: and Annexed Eastern Territories, 201–2, 217, 240.
See also
Bormann, Martin

detention camps
(Straflager)
, 877
n

deterrent effect, of sentencing, 327, 339, 369, 421, 440, 449, 454, 468, 501, 507–9, 526, 830
n
, 857
n
, 890
n
, 896
n
, 922
n

Deutsche Justiz
, 362, 583
n

Deutsches Recht
, 583
n

Diensttagebuch
, 346

Directives on the Use of Names for Jews (Aug. 18, 1938), 169–70

director of Party headquarters, 25–26.
See also
deputy Führer

disabled persons.
See
“hereditary diseases,” persons with

discretionary rulings, immunity to judicial review, 20

discrimination: ideological roots of, 50, 52–56, 618
n;
legal, and abandonment of law, 55–56, 546; and physical annihilation, 535; as step in implementation of
völkisch
inequality, 80.
See also
“special treatment”; “unequal treatment”

disease(s): “euthanasia” of Germans with, 98, 100–101; and ghettoization of Jews, 311–12, 814
n;
tuberculosis among Poles, 250, 300, 736
n
, 745
n
, 799
n;
venereal, 813
n

“disfranchisement” of Poles and Jews, 422–25, 434, 487

dismissals: of Aryans by German Jewish employers, 145; from Civil Service (
see
Civil Service purges); of German Jewish employees, 143–47, 393–94, 664
n
, 665
n;
without notice, 393–94

district administration (General Government), 277–78, 280–81, 768
n
, 771
n
, 772
n

district presidents (Annexed Eastern Territories), 200, 203, 215, 707
n
, 720
n

divorce law, 106–8, 384–85, 479, 861
n
, 911
n;
and child custody rights, 385–86

domestic staff, 329, 334, 826
n

domination, in Nazi ideology, 189–90

double jeopardy, 915
n

Draeger, Dr., 33

Drescher, Dr., 33

drug rationing, 754
n

drunkenness, 441

dualism of Party and state, 26–27

due process of law, denial to Poles, 485

Düsseldorf, 633
n

duties: of individual, 48–49, 616
n;
of obedience, 425–27