English Translation

Copy to Rk. 238l E Decree of the Führer on the participation of the head of the party law firm in the handling of mixed affairs. From 1 April 1944. The preservation of the German blood is a main task of the National Socialist leadership of the Germans. In order to fulfil this task, a uniform treatment and notification of all applications is required in which exceptions to the rules applicable to persons with a Jewish or other type of attack or with such persons are sought. To this end, it is essential to ensure that the NSDAP, which is called upon to safeguard the national socialist ideals, is permanently involved in a decisive manner. I would therefore like to say that I have tabled requests for derogations of this kind, the decision of which I have reserved, in the usual procedure to date, in so far as they concern the civilian state, by the Minister of the Reich and the head of the Chancellery, as far as the area of the Wehrmacht is concerned, through the chief of the High Command of the German Wehrmascht. The head of the Par- tei-Kanzlei takes part in these lectures. Such applications from the area of the NSDAP. submits to me the leader of the party law firm for a decision. II All exemptions of this kind, of which I have not reserved my permission, require the written consent of the head of the party law firm in the civil state area and in which the Wehrmacht without exception. In the area of the NSDAP, the leader of the Party law firm takes the decision. III All documents in the cases previously processed and to be processed in the future must be made available to the head of the party chancellery on request.Führer-Hauptquartier, 1 April 1944. THE LEADER, e.g. Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery, d. Dr. Lammers (Great Reich-The Head of the Oberkommando der Siegel) Wehrmacht gez. Keitel 18993 The head of the party law firm, Bormann