"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (309 page)

Reich law.
See
German law

Reich minister for the occupied (Eastern) territories, 697
n

Reich Ministry of Finance, 101, 168; and seizure of Jewish property, 165, 674
n

Reich Ministry of the Interior: in administration of Annexed Eastern Territories, 198, 200–203, 214–20, 237–43, 247–48, 405, 409, 721
n
, 722
n
, 738
n;
and administration of General Government, 270, 277; authority for special laws in Altreich, 82–83, 630
n;
on children of “aliens,” 65; and citizenship law and policy, 111, 116–21, 123, 237–43, 652
n
, 654
n
, 738
n;
and Civil Service purges, 87–88, 90–91; departments of, 630
n;
in dispute over German police law in Annexed Eastern Territories, 214–20, 721
n
, 722
n;
on Gypsies, 61; and Law on Aliens to the Community, 72; on marriage policy, 102, 107, 247–48; on names used by Jews, 169–70; neutralization of, 198; and “non-German” associations, 173; and powers of police, 175; and restriction on movements of Jews, 172; and sterilization law, 99, 107

Reich Ministry of Justice: and Civil Service purges, 89, 91, 92, 636
n
, 638
n
, 639
n;
collaboration with police, 366; defense counsel policy, 134–35, 343, 435–36; dispute with RSHA, 455, 463–66, 904
n;
and Führer-dependence of judges, 22, 23; Grand Penal Law Commission, 328; and integration of judiciary with NSDAP, 31, 32, 33; and Jewish attorneys and representation of Jews, 131, 135; journal of, 583
n;
and judicial reform of 1942, 23, 31, 596
n;
Office for Recruitment and Training, 838
n;
organization of, 628
n;
plans for extension of Decree on Penal Law for Poles, 427–29; ruin of, 326.
See also under judicial administration entries

Reich Ministry of Labor, 148, 149, 150

Reich Nationality Law (
Reichs- und Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz;
July 22, 1913), 108, 109

Reich Physicians Law (Dec. 13, 1935), 140

Reich Police Decree (Nov. 14, 1938), 215

Reichsbürgerrecht
(Right of Reich Citizenship), 111–12, 648–49
n

Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), 107, 354, 685
n;
and dispute over German police law in Annexed Eastern Territories, 216–17, 455, 463–66, 904
n;
marriage authorizations from, 105; and penal law in Altreich, 328, 835
n;
and police authority for “alien” workers, 182; secret circular decree (June 30, 1943), 371–72; and seizure of Jewish property, 161, 162, 163, 674
n
, 676
n

Reichsführer-SS
(RFSS): powers of, 541, 684
n;
united with chief of German police, 355, 685
n. See also
Heydrich, Reinhard; Himmler, Heinrich

Reichsführer-SS
/Reich commissar for the strengthening of German nationhood (RFSS/RKF).
See
Himmler, Heinrich

Reichskristallnacht
(Nov. 9, 1938), 358; dispossession measures following, 158, 392

Reichsstatthalter
(Reich governors), 597
n
, 708
n;
office of, organization of, 722–23
n;
of Posen/Warthegau (
see
Greiser, Arthur Karl); reaction to police authority, 460, 463; role and powers of, 198–201, 203, 204, 216, 217, 222

Reichstag Fire, 32; trial for, 32, 347

Reichstag Fire Decree.
See
Decree for the Protection of People and State

Reich (German) Supreme Court: on applicability of political power, 66; continuity in, 30; death penalty rulings, 339; discrimination by, case example, 55; on exclusion of Jews from film industry, 155–56; law-framing activity of, 329; on special law, 71; on unequal legal status, 51; on Weimar Constitution, 612
n

Reich Veterinary Law (April 3, 1936), 140

Reinhardt, Fritz, 598
n

religion: in Altreich, 67, 68, 69; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 223–24, 724–25
n;
Christian, plans to abolish, 620
n;
in General Government, 291; of members of judiciary, 603
n;
for Polish workers in Reich, 181–82

religious groups: Jehovah’s Witnesses, 69, 96, 356–57, 385; Protestant churches, 223–24, 291, 725
n. See also
Catholic Church

religious objects, theft of, 415

rent protection (control), 475

resettlement: Annexed Eastern Territories policy for, 194–95, 197–98, 254–55, 703
n
, 749–50
n;
crimes in connection with, 443; of ethnic Germans, 191, 194–95, 197–98, 263, 692
n
, 695
n
, 703
n
, 758
n;
in General Government, 263–64, 307, 758–59
n
, 809–10
n;
in occupied Eastern Europe, 191, 692
n
, 695
n;
as phase in anti-Jewish legislation, 285–86; of Poles, 124–27, 194–95, 254–55, 305, 475, 749–50
n
, 896
n;
of racially desirable children, 388–89; responsibility of special authorities for, 541–42.
See also
deportations; Germanization

resettlement centers, 254

residence in Germany, loss of: and loss of citizenship, 118–21; and loss of property, 160–61

Resident Aliens Decree, 687
n

“residential areas.”
See
ghetto(s)

residential restrictions: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 249–50, 253–54; for Jews in General Government, 285, 312–15, 499, 772
n
, 927
n. See also
ghettoization

Resident’s Tax, 297

resistance, by prisoners, 842
n. See also
Polish resistance

restraint-of-competition clause, 396

retirement, forced, from Civil Service, 92, 94–95, 638
n
, 640
n

retrial procedures, in General Government, 502

retroactive rulings, in Annexed Eastern Territories, 412, 421, 431–32, 452, 476, 875
n
, 885
n

revolutionary forces, 3

RFSS. See
Reichsführer-SS

RFSS/RKF (
Reichsführer-SS
/Reich commissar for the strengthening of German nationhood).
See
Himmler, Heinrich

Richterbriefe
, 348–49, 832
n
, 833
n
, 840
n;
and penal law in Altreich, 334, 341

rights, absence of individual legal, 72, 627–28
n

right-wing parties, 12, 44

Ritter von Schönerer, Georg, 36

RKF/RKFDV.
See
Reich commissar for the strengthening of German nationhood

Röhm Putsch, 32

Romanticism, 40

Rosenberg, Alfred, 38, 56, 610
n
, 694
n

Rothenberger, Curt, 352, 595
n
, 596
n

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 50

RSHA.
See
Reich Security Main Office

Russians: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 711
n;
Nazi plans for, 759
n;
Nazi view of, 63, 625
n;
sexual liaisons between Germans and, 180–81, 369, 855
n. See also
“eastern workers”

Rüthers, Bernd, 55

Sabotage Decree (Oct. 2, 1943), 516, 544

salary, garnishment of, 381

Saxony, Superior Administrative Court of, 177

Schäfer, Fritz, 588–89
n

Schäfer, L., 376–77

“
Schäffers Grundrissen
,” 587
n

Schindler, Max, 757
n

Schlegelberger, Franz, 133, 378, 604
n;
and penal law in Altreich, 326, 336, 340–41, 360, 362, 364, 823
n
, 827
n
, 830
n
, 833
n;
and penal law in Annexed Eastern Territories, 419, 430, 876
n

Schlitt case, 363

Schmidt, Paul, 691
n

Schmitt, Carl, 19, 41, 45, 46, 51, 266, 379, 612
n
, 633
n
, 760–61
n;
“concrete philosophy of order,” 6, 586
n;
on Jews, 59, 621
n;
on judicial independence, 593
n

Schulz, Fritz, 633
n

Schütze, Erwin, 90

Schutzverband
, 115, 117

screenplay contract, 859
n

SD (Security Service), 300, 685
n;
and “alien” workers in Altreich, 688–89
n

secrecy, in
Nacht und Nebel
cases, 368, 853
n

secret decrees, authorizing police authority, 367, 369–78, 460, 467–68

securities, of Jews, 159, 160

Security Police (SIPO; Sipo), 685
n;
and “alien” workers in Reich, 178, 179–80, 688–89
n;
in Annexed Eastern Territories, 218, 219, 220, 241–42, 243, 254, 466–67; authority for deportations, 541; courts-martial of, 449–55; decree on appearance of Jews in public, 170; and German Jewish property, 162–63; and Jewish ghettos in General Government, 315, 818
n;
and Jewish
Mischlinge
, 121; and Polish property, 229; transfer of criminal jurisdiction to, 344.
See also
Gestapo

seduction, protection against, 415

Seel, Hans, 86

segregation: in Altreich, 50, 80; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 195, 206–13, 225, 230, 246–47, 711–15
n;
in eastern occupied territories, 191, 192; in General Government, 209, 284–87, 297–301, 309, 780–81
n
, 796
n;
racial basis of, 50, 52

sentencing: in Altreich, 335–40, 361–63, 850
n;
in Annexed Eastern Territories, 415, 421, 425–27, 437–46, 449, 459, 463, 877
n
, 886
n;
Annexed Eastern Territories statistics, 444–45, 850
n;
for breach of peace, 413–14; deterrent effect of, 327, 339, 369, 421, 440, 449, 454, 468, 501, 507–9, 526, 830
n
, 857
n
, 890
n
, 896
n
, 922
n;
in General Government, 503, 507–12, 516; for looting, 337; of Poles, standards for, 345, 421, 426, 441–46, 452, 508–9; by police courts-martial, 458; for political crimes, 338; powers of, usurpation by police, 367–70; as protection from Gestapo, 351, 360, 442, 459; for “race defilement,” 330–33; special court rules for, 434, 437–46; of war criminals, 337; without trial, 351–52, 458, 503, 842
n
, 900
n
, 927
n

“sentencing scales,” 892
n

separation of powers, 16, 585
n

“September crimes,” 196, 411–14, 424, 429, 438, 879–80
n
, 889
n

Settlement of Debts Law, 910
n

sexual liaisons: death penalty for, 369; between German women and “persons of foreign race,” 56, 620
n;
between Jews and Germans, 329, 826
n;
legal definition of sexual intercourse, 329–30; between Poles and Germans, 180, 209–10, 212, 230, 333, 369, 427, 714
n
, 827
n
, 855
n
, 881
n;
“racially mixed,” in Altreich, 180–81, 329, 639
n
, 646
n
, 687
n
, 688–89
n;
“racially undesirable,” 64–65; between Russians (“eastern workers”) and Germans, 180–81, 369, 855
n

sexual offenses: in Annexed Eastern Territories, number of, 443; against children, 830–31
n;
in General Government, 510; importance of,
vs
. political crimes, 456–57; under penal law in Altreich, 367–69, 372, 855
n;
pregnancy resulting from, 415; sentencing for, 338–39

shopping restrictions: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 257–58, 753–54
n;
for Jews in Altreich, 164, 170, 677
n

Silesia, 171, 211, 216.
See also
Upper Silesia

Simplification Decree (Sept. 1, 1939), 822
n

SIPO/Sipo.
See
Security Police

Sippenhaftung
(collective responsibility): for “alien” workers in Altreich, 152–53; of families, 109–10