STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1815, sig. 109-5/43

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V With regard to the Jewish friendship shown so far by a considerable proportion of the Czech population, this police regulation has an increased importance in the Protectorate of Boehnen and Moravia, I therefore request all departments to be concerned for a strict implementation of the same, on the other hand I ask with emphasis to ensure that independent and illegal actions against the now marked Jews or other self-empowering actions are omitted. Infringements of this kind have to be inadvertently intervened.For the rest of the Reich, a similar instruction will be given by the Party Chancellery to the NSDAP and its divisions, I ask the Party Liaison Office to seek clarification of the Party and its subdivisions, The Police Ordinance of 1.9.41 provides for the provisional identification of the Jews, the prohibition of leaving the residential community and the prohibition on wearing orders and honor marks. The decree of further restrictive orders remains reserved. I hereby expressly prohibit the independent execution of any Jewish measures, even if only by decrees of local significance. For the adoption of further measures, which shall be coordinated with the orders to be issued in the rest of the Reich, within my authority only the commander of the security police, to whom any requests should be addressed, is to be noted in order to explain the single provisions: I. Identification of the Jews, a) Tragway and distribution of the Jewish stars. The marks are to be carried by the Jews on the left breast side, for example at heart height, at any time sight bar and fixed sewn, under the concept of the public not only streets and squares, public institutions etc., but also private rooms in).