English Translation

Copy. 28 Division Justice Prague, 4 May 1943 II Gen a 1434 M with l action and 1 copy Mr. Ministerialrat Dr. Gies im Hausc. K Subject: Legislature of the NSDAr, mandate of the Secretary of State of the 4th M. On the question whether and in velchem Ümfang the negotiators of NsDAp. are authorized in the protectorate, I should like to mention the following; 1). The legal status of NSDAP. has been re-ordered by the decree of 12 December 19942 (RGBl.I p.733), which is appended to it, with effect for the territory of the Great German Reich. Bielang was the NslAP by express legislative provision a corporation of public law Now its rights and obligations result from the tasks provided by the Bührer and the resulting orger- satory position (I u.lv of the decree). Thus, the party is also legally not incorporated into the state structure of El's body, but is constantly standing next to the state. From this the further conclusion is drawn that on the one hand the internal organization of the party determines itself exclusively according to party law (iI) and on the other hand the party participates in the general right-hand traffic in terms of the legal provisions applicable to the State (Ill). In the Protectorate, too, determines its internal order and organization in the way of party law-making. This legislative power has already been granted to it and has been shared by the head of the Party Chancellery, partly by the /