NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY The Deputy of the Fuehrer, Staff Director
Munich 33, Brown House, January 17, 1939 SECRET
Regulation No 1/39 g
Subject: Jews
After a report of General Field Marshal Goering the Fuehrer has made some basic decisions regarding the Jewish question. The decisions are brought to your attention in the enclosure. Strict compliance with these directives is requested.
signed: M BORMANN
1 enclosure Distribution: III b Official:
[signed: signature illegible]
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Berlin, Dec 28, 1938
Minister President General Field Marshal Goering, Commissioner for the Four Year Plan
SECRET
Pursuant to my report the Fuehrer has made the following decisions on the Jewish question.
A.
I: Housing of Jews
1. a. Protective régulations for tenants will not be generally revoked in the case of Jews. It is desirable, however, to proceed in individual cases in such a way that Jews will live together in one house, as much as feasible under rental conditions.
b. For this reason the arianization of real estate will be the last step of the total arianization, that means that at present
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real estate is only to be arianized in individual cases where there are compelling reasons. An immediate concern is the arianiza-tion of plants and business enterprises, farm property, forests, etc.
2. The use of sleepers and dining cars is to be prohibited for Jews. Apart from that no separate Jew-compartments must be arranged for. Neither should any bans be pronounced regarding the use of railways, streetcars, subways, buses and ships.
3. The ban for Jews is to be pronounced only for certain public establishments etc. This includes such hotels and restaurants which are mainly visited by Party members (for instance: Hotel Kaiserhof, Berlin; Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Munich; Hotel Deutscher Hof, Nürnberg; Hotel Drei Mohren, Augsburg, etc.) The ban can further be pronounced for swimming pools, certain public squares, resort towns, etc. Mineral baths may, in individual cases and if prescribed by a doctor, be used by Jews, but only in a manner not causing offense.
II. Pensions are not to be denied to Jews who have been civil servants and who have been pensioned. It is to be investigated, however, whether those Jews can manage on a smaller pension.
III. Jewish social care is not to be arianized or to be abolished, so that Jews will not become a public burden but can be cared for by Jewish institutions.
IV. Jewish patents are property values and therefore to be arianized too. (A similar procedure was used during the World War by America and other states pertaining to German citizens.)
B.
Mixed Marriages:
I..1. with children (half-Aryans 1 class)
a. If the father is German and the mother Jewish the family is permitted to remain in their present apartment. No ban for Jews regarding housing is to be pronounced against these families.
The property of the Jewish mother may be transferred in such cases to the German husband respectively the half-Aryan children.
b. If the father is Jewish and the mother German these families are neither to be housed in Jewish quarters for the time being. This because the children (half-Aryan 1st class) are not to be exposed to the Jewish agitation as they will have to serve later in the labor service and the armed forces.
The property may for the time being be transferred partly or entirely to the children.
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2. without children
a. If the husband is German and the wife Jewish par. 1 a holds true accordingly.
b. If the husband is Jewish and the wife German these childless couples are to be treated as pure Jews.
Property values of the husband cannot be transferred to the wife. Both can be lodged in Jewish houses or quarters. Especially in the case of emigration both spouses are to be treated like Jews as soon as the augmented emigration has been set into motion.
II. If the German wife divorces the Jewish husband she returns to the German blood-kinship. All disadvantages for her are dropped in this case.
signed: GOERING
Authenticated copy: signed: JAHN
Cover letter and a copy of Hitler's "decisions on the Jewish question," including the Aryanization of housing, bans against Jews in certain public areas and services, and the treatment of mixed German/Jewish families
Authors
Martin Bormann (Chief, Party Chancellery, deputy to Hess, then Hitler)
Martin Bormann
German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-07-17 1900-06-17 (Halberstadt)
- Died: 1945-05-02 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: farmer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Aryanization; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant; since: 1945-11-19)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer; soldier
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
Hermann Göring
German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
- Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
- Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Date: 17 January 1939
Literal Title: Regulation No 1/39 g[.] Subject: Jews
Defendants: Martin Bormann, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Alfred Rosenberg
Total Pages: 3
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-069
Citation: IMT (page 2330)
HLSL Item No.: 451011
Notes:Bormann's cover letter is dated 17 January 1939; the decisions are recorded by Goering, 28 December 1938. This copy of PS 69 was not entered as evidence relating to persecution of the Jews; another copy was entered later as US exhibit 589 in the case against Goering (8 January 1946). PS 841 is another version of the same document.
Trial Issues
Aryanization of property (IMT, NMT 5) Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Racial selection and discrimination (theory, screening, relocations, kidna…
Document Summary
PS-69: Letter from Bormann to Rosenberg containing anti-jewish laws issued in the name of Goering
PS-69: Secret order by Bormann, 17 January 1939, with order by Goring in execution of Hitler’s decision concerning the housing of Jewish and partly Jewish persons and compulsory "aryanization" in certain cases