Berlin, 20 July 1935
The Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior III P 3701/5 ,
Secret .
Special Delivery Letter!
[Stamp]
The Reich Governor in Bavaria 22 July 1935—one enclosure
Sign: Fi 6 July 22 [apparently signature, illegible]
SUBJECT: Confessional youth organizations.
A direct .endangering of public security and order has resulted from the recently observed intensive activity of confessional, particularly Catholic youth organizations, which have in numerous cases considerably overstepped the limits imposed on them by political development and therefore in many places led to clashes with the organizations which stand behind the government, particularly the Hitler youth.
I therefore respectfully request that, on the basis of paragraph 1 of the decree of 28 February 1933, the confessional youth organizations be forbidden to wear uniforms or uniform-like clothing and to assemble publicly with pennants and flags and that the wearing of insignia and the wearing of uniform costume as a substitute for uniforms as well as any outdoor sport activity be prohibited.
I respectfully request that I be immediately informed of your disposition (of the matter).
Signed: Dr. FRICK certified: [signature illegible] Ministerial Chancellery Secretary
[stamp] settled 1 August
To the provincial governments (for Prussia: to the deputy chief and inspector of the Prussian secret state police)
Munich M [signature illegible]
51
1482-PS
Copies
To Reich Minister Kerri, Reich Minister for Science, Education, and Public Training, and the Reich governors with a request for cognizance.
Letter to the provincial governments, directing them to prohibit the public gatherings of church-based youth groups and the wearing of their uniforms in public, noting clashes between these groups and Hitler Youth
Authors
Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)
Wilhelm Frick
German Nazi official (1877-1946)
- Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
- Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 20 July 1935
Literal Title: Subject: Confessional youth organizations
Defendants: Wilhelm Frick, Baldur Schirach, von
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-1482
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450267
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…
Document Summary
PS-1482: Circular Letters 'SECRET' from Reich Minister of the Interior Frick to various Reich Officials , re: RESTRICTIVE MEASURES AGAINST RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
PS-1482: Secret teletype from Frick to the provincial governments, 20 July 1935, prohibiting the wearing of uniforms by members of religious youth formations and subjecting them to other restrictions