VERORDNUNGSBLATT
OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL FOR THE OCCUPIED POLISH TERRITORY 1939, Page 61.
Decree concerning the designation of Jews and Jewesses in the Government General of 23 November 1939
On the basis of No. 5 paragraph 1 of the decree of the Fuehrer and Chancellor of the Reich on the administration of occupied Polish territory, dated 12 October 1939 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 2077), I order:
1. All Jews and Jewesses, who are in Government General territory and who have reached the age of ten, shall be obliged to wear a white band not less than 10 cm wide on the right sleeve of their coats and overcoats beginning 1 December 1939.
2. Jews and Jewesses shall procure these arm bands themselves and shall furnish them with the appropriate markings.
3. (1) Failure to comply is punishable by imprisonment.
(2) Judgment will be passed by special courts.
4. The necessary regulations concerning the execution of this order will be released by the Chief of Section for Internal Administration, in the Office of the Governor General.
Cracow, 23 November 1939
The Governor General for the occupied Polish territories
FRANK
Decree requiring Jews (age ten and older) in Poland to identify themselve with a white band on their sleeves
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: Verordnungsblatt (set of decrees) of the Governor General for the occupied Polish Territory (1939) . . . Decree concerning the designation of Jews and Jewesses in the Government General of 23 November 1939
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-2672
HLSL Item No.: 451086
Notes:This document was not entered as evidence in the trial.