VERORDNUNGSBLATT OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL FOR OCCUPIED POLISH TERRITORY,
No. 8, Page 61, 30 November 1939 Decree Regarding the designation of businesses in the Generalgouvernement.
Dated 23 November 1939
On the basis No. 5 paragraph 1 of the decree of the Fuehrer and Chancellor of the Reich regarding the administration of Occupied Polish Territory, dated 12 October 1939 (Reichsgesetzblatt, 1, p. 2077), I order that:
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1. Businesses owned by Germans shall be marked as German businesses. They may use Polish firm designations as well.
2. Businesses owned by Poles must have Polish firm markings. They may carry German firm designations as well.
3. Jewish businesses shall be marked with the star of Zion
which must be clearly visible from the street; no German firm designations may be carried by them. ' '
4. (1) Failure to comply is punishable by imprisonment.
(2) Judgment will be passed by special courts.
The Governor General for the Occupied Polish Territories
FRANK
Decree on the identification and marking of businesses in Poland as being German, Polish, or Jewish
Authors
Hans Frank (Chief of Legal Office, NSDAP; Governor General of Poland)
Hans Frank
German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900-1946)
- Born: 1900-05-23 (Karlsruhe)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Nuremberg Court Prison) (reason for deprecated rank: item/value with less precision and/or accuracy; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (since: 1919-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung; Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
- Significant person: John C. Woods (role: executioner)
Date: 23 November 1939
Literal Title: Decree Regarding the designation of busniesses [i.e., businesses] in the Generalgouvernement.
Defendant: Hans Frank
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2671
HLSL Item No.: 451085
Notes:This document was not entered as evidence in the trial.