The Reichminister and Chief of Chancellery.
Berlin W 8, Voss-strasse 6, 5 July 1942
Present Headquarters of the Fuehrer
To: The Highest Reich Authorities and
The Services directly subordinate to the Fuehrer.
The Fuehrer has delegated Reichsleiter Rosenberg in his capacity of commissioner of the Fuehrer to supervise the total
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spiritual and philosophical indoctrination and education of the NSDAP in the spiritual battle against Jews and Free-Masons as well as against the affiliated philosophical opponents of National Socialism, who are the cause of the present war. For this purpose, the Fuehrer has ordered that Reichsleiter Rosenberg's Staff should be authorized, in the occupied territories under military administration and in the occupied Eastern territories under civil administration (exclusive of the General Gouvernement), to search libraries, archives, lodges and other philosophical and cultural institutions of all types for relevant material for the execution of his task and to request the competent Wehrmacht and police services to seize the material found in order to support the NSDAP in fulfillment of its spiritual task and for the later scientific research work of the "Hohe Schule", whereby police files concerning political activities will remain with the police, and all others be transferred to Reichsleiter Rosenberg's Staff. The staff is authorized to make the same request with regard to cultural goods that are ownerless goods or the ownership of which cannot be readily determined. The Chief of the Army High Command, in agreement with Reichsleiter Rosenberg, will issue regulations governing the cooperation with the Wehrmacht. The necessary measures within the Eastern territories under German administration will be taken by Reichsleiter Rosenberg in his capacity as Reichsminister for the occupied Eastern territories.
I inform you of this order of the Fuehrer and request you to support Reichsleiter Rosenberg in the fulfillment of his task.
/s/ Dr. Hammers
Instructions to government and military offices to assist Rosenberg's office in Hitler's program to gather educational and cultural material for the ideological conflict against Jews, Freemasons, and others
Authors
Hans H. Lammers (Dr., Chief of Reich Chancellery)
Hans H. Lammers
German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)
- Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec)
- Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness)
- Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague)
Date: 05 July 1942
Defendant: Alfred Rosenberg
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-154
HLSL Item No.: 451015
Notes:This copy of PS 154 was not entered as evidence (relating to persecution of the Jews); another copy was entered later as US exhibit 370. Document PS 847 includes Hitler's decree on the Rosenberg operation.
Trial Issues
Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Art and cultural treasures, plundering of (Rosenberg; Linz project) (IMT)
Document Summary
PS-154: Letter from Hitler's office confirming Rosenberg's suth-orities
PS-154: Letter from the chief of the Reich Chancellery to the supreme Reich authorities, 5 July 1942, concerning Hitler’s order to Rosenberg to combat Jews, Freemasons, and other opponents of national socialist ideology as instigators of the war and to confiscate their property
PS-154: Letter from LAMMERS to the highest Reich authorities, 5 July 1942: